By: Jennifer Korn As the County Legislature prepares to vote on next year’s operating budget one item has remained conspicuously absent from the discussion. Despite severe budget shortfalls and continued pressure from the community, Rockland’s government has still not made any decisions as to the fate of a county-owned property that’s valued at millions of dollars and has been left vacant for three years. Since December of 2017, county legislators have disputed the sale of the Sain Building, which is located in New City and sits adjacent to the county courthouse and the offices of the county legislature. The building was constructed in 1962, bought by the county in 1974, and sits on 3.5 acres of land at 18 New Hempstead Road.Planned to be used as office space for the county, the last of its […]
By Kathy Kahn With ridership down nearly 75 percent since Covid-19 decimated public transportation in New York City and the counties surrounding it, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is asking for a Federal bailout to balance its 2021 budget. Currently under consideration is the elimination of the West-of-Hudson River service. The move to cut W-O-H […]
By County Executive Ed Day I have good news to share with you in respect to the 2021 Proposed Budget. The New York State Comptroller’s Office reviewed the proposed $721.7 million 2021 spending plan, which matches the New York State property tax cap while avoiding layoffs and found that, “the significant revenue and expenditure […]
By Kathy Kahn After nearly five decades of supplying power to electricity-hungry New York City, Indian Point is scheduled to close down in April 2021. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given conditional approval to the sale of Indian Point to Holtec International, based in Jupiter, Florida. One of its affiliates, Holtec Decommissioning International […]
Opinion By: Kathy Kahn While most media outlets have declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the November 2 Presidential Election, current POTUS Donald Trump is primed to challenge the mail-in balloting fiasco that is still unfolding across the USA. Trump and a cadre of attorneys are primed to take the […]
By: Ella Coogan With 290 electoral votes and a popular vote lead of over 5 million, the Associated Press declared Joe Biden and Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris the winners of the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 7. Although votes for the presidential race are still being counted in Arizona, Georgia, and North […]
