Critic says responses are evasive BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Two Tappan Residents are questioning Orangetown officials about the existence of old sewer lines at an abandoned Army base on Western Highway, and are not satisfied with answers the town has given them so far, claiming the responses are more mystifying than […]
BY DERRYCK GREEN, Project 21 Attorney General Eric Holder and his band of merry litigators at the U.S. Department of Justice have sued Jacksonville, Florida over its fire department’s promotion testing process. The Obama Administration contends that it discriminates against blacks. Less than a week later, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Jacksonville’s firefighters union […]
The Self Portrait of a Monkey as a Scholar My talent is as long as my tail, perhaps thicker than my whiskers, my shrieks creep into jungle soup. My teeth chatter when I lecture and my nose scratches like chalk. Until I scream at a snake hissing, My mate picks fleas from my fur which […]
A flat tax lesson from Mexico BY ROBERTO SALINAS-LEON With tax season finally behind us, now’s an ideal time for policymakers to reform America’s tax code. While the absurd complexity of the U.S. tax system is still fresh in everyone’s mind, there’s political will for such a move. One of the most popular ideas is […]
John Desir, age 28, residing at 132 Third Avenue, Nyack was sentenced May 30, 2012, before New York State Supreme Court Justice William A. Kelly to a state prison term of 8 years and 3 years of post release supervision after pleading guilty to Manslaughter in the 1st Degree. District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe stated […]
It may not look too hopeful at the moment, but Supervisor Geoff Finn told the Rockland County Times that the proposed Malloy’s Park in Stony Point “is predicted to be finished in the early fall.” Finn met with the project manager for the park last week, he said. Of course the site on the corner […]