The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has experienced staff cuts and constrained funding since 2003 while its responsibilities have grown, according to a report released this week by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. “DEC’s staff has declined while funding has barely kept pace with inflation and now is projected to decline,” DiNapoli said. […]
BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Tis the time of year when prognosticators and pundits step forward and make all sorts of predictions and forecasts regarding the economy and markets for the coming year. While there is certainly nothing wrong with expressing your opinion or views, after all I’m doing it here […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column ECC honoree Winslow Dorsainvil a Spartan performer When the temps and weather dictates, one alternative is to compete indoors — not only on the hardwood with a basketball but on the track with your heart, soul and legs to carry you on. Such was the case with returnee Winslow Dorsainvil […]
OP-ED BY MARK PETERLIN Franklin Roosevelt’s first vice president, former Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, famously said of the vice president position, it wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm spit.” The reason? Because unless the president is incapacitated in some fashion, there is almost nothing to do. The only reason that there is a “vice this,” a […]
The Jewish Federation of Rockland County has commissioned Dr. David Elcott and Stuart Himmelfarb of B3/The Jewish Boomer Platform and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, to conduct Rockland’s first study of synagogue membership trends and Jewish communal engagement. The survey is titled “Jewish Rockland 2015: The Landscape of the Rockland County Board of […]
Rockland County Times Editor-in-Chief Dylan Skriloff has acquired ownership of the publication and officially assumed the mantle of publisher. Skriloff has been chief editor since 2009 and worked closely with the late Armand Miele, the paper’s former publisher. “I am excited to become publisher of the newspaper and I pledge to bring Rockland County the […]