BY DAN PERRIN Despite getting clobbered in the fiscal cliff negotiations, Republicans have something to celebrate this year — the survival of health savings accounts, or HSAs. They had feared that President Obama would obliterate this critical cost-saving tool. Sure, the president had promised that ObamaCare would not bar HSA-qualified plans from health insurance exchanges. […]
NYGOP Chair Ed Cox issued the following statement Tuesday on Gov. Cuomo’s proposed minimum wage increase: “As is often the case with Andrew Cuomo’s propositions, the proposed minimum wage increase is good politics for the Governor, but bad policy for New Yorkers. “Everyone likes the sound of higher wages, but a higher minimum wage means […]
Part I By Anthony Melé School Lock-Down Policies are why more children will be killed, held hostage or raped by the criminally insane or terrorist hostage takers in the next attack. It is counter-intuitive to purge teachers and students of their natural instincts to flee danger or evade an attacker seeking them harm. In each […]
To the Editor, A quick history on Civile’s Restaurant and how he found himself here in the heart of Haverstraw. I was a member of the Board of Trustee along with former Mayor Bud Wassmer, Jim Lauler, Angelo Cintron and Mike Simko. We (the village) purchase that property in partnership with Scenic Hudson from Vincent […]
BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES The Town of Orangetown will seek public comment Tuesday on its plans to re-develop the 350-acre former campus of the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg. The town purchased the mostly vacated campus of the state psychiatric hospital more than a decade ago, and has been trying to […]
Ms. Cornell, I am the President of the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Rockland County. I have spent almost 40 years in law enforcement and am appalled by your comment comparing retired police officers to Chris Dorner — a disgraced ex-cop, who systematically murdered civilians and police officers. The men and women serving in […]