BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Yom Kippur controversy mars Conservative Party convention; Longo’s team and others accuse Lettre and Loeffler of anti-Semitism for holding convention on same date as Yom Kippur; derelict leaders of the Conservative Party refuse to allow press at their convention There was no floor fight at last night’s Conservative Party convention, not that […]
Officials from AAA New York and AAA North Jersey called a press conference last week to mark the one-year anniversary of toll hikes by the Port Authority across all six of its bridges and tunnels. The plan, approved last year, calls for four separate toll increases by 2015. AAA officials at the conference called on […]
Congressman Eliot Engel announced last week that the U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $5,790,739 National Emergency Grant (NEG) to the New York State Department of Labor to pay for temporary jobs for eligible dislocated workers assisting with the clean-up and recovery from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Rep. Engel said, “These storms devastated […]
BY MICHAEL CAHILL Republican candidate for New York State Senate, Janis Castaldi joined Rockland County Legislator Ed Day on the steps of the Rockland County Court House Monday morning to show her support for mandate relief in New York. Castaldi is former a Deputy Mayor and Village Trustee of Ossining. This election season she is […]
The biennial Rockland County Conservative Party convention, where leadership of the party is elected, will be held at Clarkstown Town Hall, 7 p.m., Wednesday, September 26. The date happens to be the second day of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, which runs from the evening of Tuesday, September 25 to […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF There was a fair amount of action and controversy this past week in Rockland County on Primary Day, September 13. For starters, turnout was low and the question must be asked, did holding Election Day on a Thursday impact the vote? Elections are usually held on Tuesdays, but due to Tuesday falling […]