WEATHER THIS WEEK: September 22-28

WEATHER THIS WEEK: September 22-28

Your weekly forecast by Zachary Jacomowitz  Hello, Rockland County! I hope that your week has been great! Friday marks the fall equinox, which means fall officially begins at 4:02 p.m. EDT, so happy fall! With that, let’s get right to the forecast. Friday: Expect a mixture of sun and clouds. Slight chance of a shower. […]

THREE VETS STAND UP FOR KLEINER

THREE VETS STAND UP FOR KLEINER

To the Editor, We are Orangetown veterans who have proudly served our nation in World War II and Vietnam. The attacks on Supervisor candidate Thom Kleiner by a reader last week are unfounded and mean spirited and we, as veterans, disavow them. Each of us has known Thom Kleiner for the better part of 25 […]

NFL Players Deserve Government Protection, Too

NFL Players Deserve Government Protection, Too

BY DIANE DIMOND   Football is proven to be dangerous to players’ health. Why isn’t it regulated? Our government — both state and federal — has countless laws and regulations designed to keep citizens safe and healthy, from safety standards on the foods we eat and the cars we drive, to laws that govern workers […]

Banned Books Week: September 24 – 30, 2017

Banned Books Week: September 24 – 30, 2017

  Celebrating the 35th Anniversary  of the Freedom to Read  More than a book a day faces expulsion from free and open public access in U.S. schools and libraries every year. There have been more than 10,000 attempts since the American Library Association (ALA) began electronically compiling and publishing information on book challenges in 1990. Thirty-five […]

Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare

Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare

Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare  Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement in response to Empire State Development’s shameless bragging about taxpayer-financed productions winning Emmy awards:   “The state’s film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they’re forcing New York taxpayers to finance. “New […]

DISTRICT MAPS SHOW: Regardless of party, Rockland County elections are about Ramapo bloc vote

DISTRICT MAPS SHOW: Regardless of party, Rockland County elections are about Ramapo bloc vote

The Rockland County Times has obtained pre-absentee ballot district-by-district vote tallies for the county executive and Surrogate Court justice primaries. The two hotly contested elections display the degree to which the Rockland electorate has coalesced into “Ramapo bloc vote” vs. “Anti-Ramapo bloc vote” camps. The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not […]

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