By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Thirteen months ago, I took office as your county executive knowing the challenges I inherited were stubborn and steep. Rockland County was broke and broken. The people elected me to fix this government and lift up our entire community. Part of our efforts to create a more […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21) announced the introduction of a bipartisan congressional resolution with Reps. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Steve Israel (NY-03), and Peter Roskam (IL-06) recognizing the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz that took place on […]
Parietti and Romanowski seek to preserve ward vote invalidation BY MICHAEL RICONDA RAMAPO – Activists in the Town of Ramapo have launched another legal push toward their goal of authorizing a second vote on the question of whether or not wards should be established in Ramapo’s local elections. Ramapo Residents Robert Romanowski and Michael Parietti […]
Rockland County Times Commentary When the New York Comptroller’s list of most fiscally stressed local governments for the fiscal year 2013 came out in 2014, the Town of Ramapo was conspicuously absent after ranking as the number one most stressed town for the fiscal year ending 2012. Local sleuth for the Ramapo GOP Committee Bill […]
Jaffee, Zebrowski and Skoufis have not distanced themselves from Speaker Silver As the charges against New York Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver were laid out by US Attorney Preet Bharara, New York Democrats found themselves in a conundrum. The 2015 legislative session had just begun and Silver remained the unquestioned leader of the Assembly. […]
The man many have called the most powerful figure in New York politics over the past 20 years, longtime Speaker of the NY Assembly Sheldon Silver, has been arrested on corruption charges by the FBI. US Attorney for the Southern NY District Preet Bharara had commenced a major investigation of many of New York’s politicians […]