Letter to the Editor: STOP DIGGING

To the Editor, They say the best way to get out of a hole is to stop digging. I am deeply concerned that we are continuing to dig a deeper hole for the North Rockland Community. The current proposed budget of $206,330,813 with a proposed tax levy increase of 3.63 percent to educate 8,129 students […]

The Courage to Stand (Almost) Alone

The Courage to Stand (Almost) Alone

The Rockland County Times has learned that freshman Assemblyman James Skoufis (D-Stony Point, Orange County) was one of only a handful of Assembly Democrats to vote against Governor Cuomo’s NY SAFE gun control act. Skoufis did not bow to political pressure at midnight and sign the bill, and instead chose to vote his conscience. This […]

ANDREW WEARS THE DUNCE CAP AGAIN — LALOR BLASTS STUPID WAGE REGULATIONS

ANDREW WEARS THE DUNCE CAP AGAIN — LALOR BLASTS STUPID WAGE REGULATIONS

Lalor asks, “Cuomo’s minimum wage tax credits encourage replacing adult employees with teenagers. Does anybody read these laws before they print them?”  Statement on the Minimum Wage Proposal from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill) It looks like Governor Cuomo and Speaker Silver have made a mess of it again. Their new minimum wage […]

Hey, Steubenville: Where Was Everyone?

BY DIANE DIMOND “There are crimes very similar to this that occur every Friday night and every Saturday night in communities across this country … .” — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine  Many of us watched with interest the rape case that recently played out in Steubenville, Ohio. The two defendants — Trent Mays, 17, […]