Vikings face Iona Preparatory School in high school quiz show Clarkstown High School has advanced to the second round of MSG Varsity’s, “The Challenge,” and will take on Iona Preparatory School on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. on Cablevision’s Optimum, Channel 14. Clarkstown South High School is joined by 31 other schools from […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Suffern – The Ramapo Town Board met on March 13 to discuss matters business, but attracted significant attention for a recent gesture expressing support for the controversial gun control provisions of the New York State SAFE Act. The memorializing resolution supporting the law had passed unanimously and with little fanfare at the […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE BY ASSEMBLYWOMAN ANNIE RABBITT Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt (R,I,C-Greenwood Lake) today voted against the first 2013-14 state budget bill, known as the debt service bill. Citing the $57.6 billion in current outstanding state debt for fiscal year 2013-14 and no sign yet of the total 2013-14 budget proposal, the Assemblywoman said she could […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM CONGRESSWOMAN NITA LOWEY – Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, on Tuesday outlined what she says would be the devastating impact of the House Republican budget. “This budget is wildly out of step with the fair and balanced approach that Americans expect and deserve,” said Congresswoman […]
Kristen Stavisky loses her marbles defending Coe’s feelings; recruits Dem soldiers to sign hostile petition BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Dear readers, apparently my editorial in the Rockland County Times portraying Rockland Democrats as being crazed for attending a fundraiser named after the notorious “Fifty Shades” erotica masterpiece didn’t go over too well…with some Democrats. This despite […]
BY JONATHAN GRADESS A half century has passed since the Supreme Court’s Gideon v. Wainwright decision directed states to provide counsel for the poor in criminal cases. New York continues to renege on this duty. Responding to Gideon, New York set up a patchwork system of county-based providers, a “system” without meaningful oversight, appropriate funding, […]