BY GRACIE-MARIE TURNER Here’s a quick checklist of what free marketeers are calling the 10 worst things in the Affordable Care Act along with the individual and Medicaid mandates: 1. Employer mandate: Most companies will have to provide and pay for expensive government-determined health insurance for their employees or face federal fines. 2. Conscience mandate: […]
Dear Editor, We were disappointed to learn that Big Tobacco succeeded in its attempt to force the Village of Haverstraw to rescind its ordinance prohibiting the display of tobacco products in retail stores (Smoked out: Haverstraw Village to drop anti-tobacco ordinance, online edition). The tobacco industry hoped that the resources available to a small village […]
BY DIANE DIMOND So, have you heard the stories about how to beat a polygraph test? Ever read any of the odd suggestions on the Internet? Among them: Silently count backward from 100 during the test to distract your brain, learn to control your breathing, put a tack in your shoe or bite down hard […]
Stony Point Town Board votes 4-1 to approve the new law EDITORIAL BY GEORGE POTANOVIC, JR., President of Stony Point Action Committee for the Environment (Space) In an effort to curb the increasing clutter of lawn signs and political campaign signs that have become larger and more numerous during each election season, the Stony Point […]
Local political activist responds to Diane Dimond’s call for national ID EDITORIAL BY JEANINE VECCHIARELLI Last week’s column by Diane Dimond (re: National ID Cards) chilled me to the bone. Yes, we need a better system than we have now, but what Ms. Dimond suggests is truly unnerving. The biggest flaw in Ms. Dimond’s reasoning […]
BY DIANE DIMOND When I saw the headlines, my stomach lurched. The state of Georgia has issued an execution warrant for a retarded man? Oh, good grief, I thought, has America come to this? Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling more than a decade ago banning the execution of retarded citizens, Georgia was going to […]