RECLAIM NEW YORK PRESS RELEASE With the latest public corruption scandals dominating headlines, and State government’s repeated failure to implement serious ethics reform, today, Reclaim New York was joined by transparency leaders, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, to launch new tools to empower New Yorkers to hold government accountable. Reclaim’s statewide […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Daniel wants marriage and a husband. Mitchell, his longtime lover, doesn’t want to be categorized and this leads to relationship tension. This is the plot of an interesting look into marriage and the gay community. It gets intense as Daniel and Mitchell delve into an unhappy childhood memories as Daniel remembers his mother demeaning his father […]
RAMAPO PD PRESS RELEASE At about 3 a.m., Monday, October 10 Ramapo PD received a report from a Dolson Road resident of three suspects stealing two motorcycles from the front of his property. As officers responded, one officer observed a U-Haul vehicle driving north on Remsen Road. The officer proceeded to follow the U-Haul and stopped it on […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day When the people of Rockland County put their faith in me to be County Executive nearly three years ago, I made a promise: I said I would fix this county’s financial mess. And what a mess it was. Rockland had earned the shameful distinction of most fiscally stressed municipality […]
BY MARC MOSS An appellate court in Brooklyn has allowed a lawsuit to proceed brought by Alysoun Sherwood against the Fireside Steak Pub, claiming that the bar served a visibly intoxicated person who later struck her vehicle. Sherwood sustained serious injuries on February 22, 2013, when her vehicle was struck by Michael Coyle, the driver […]
BY LEGISLATOR ALDEN H. WOLFE (D- Montebello) Chairman, Rockland County Legislature The process of approving the 2017 County budget began with the County Executive’s proposal late last week. As the Charter provides, it now falls upon the Legislature to conduct a thorough review of the proposal, which includes public meetings with residents providing input and […]
