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 […]
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 […]
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló addresses the nation in the face of danger; Hurricane Maria, now a Category 5 storm, is expected to make landfall in the coming hours Watch Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s address: https://vimeo.com/234556644 My fellow Americans, as I speak to you right now the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is just hours away from […]
[UPDATE- Day said he will not challenge the results in court. He referred the Tom Sullivan has pulled ahead of Ed Day in the primary race for county executive following the count of 168 absentee ballots. Officials told the Rockland County Times that the tally currently is 647-615. County Executive Day led 574-520 after the initial […]
CRIMEÂ REPORT SUBMITTED BY CPD Â The Clarkstown Police Department arrested a 24-year-old male from Pomona, NY Sunday following a domestic incident that occurred earlier in the night, where the suspect allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend and another male in their New City residence. On September 17 at approximately 11:20 p.m. the Clarkstown Police Department responded […]
Round two of Kleiner v. Day on preserving Orangetown will be published online Tuesday, September 19 BY CHRIS DAY Candidate, Town of Orangetown supervisor I read with interest my opponent’s recent letter to the editor regarding Preserving Orangetown. I’m glad to see he’s finally aware of this concept that he chose to ignore and actively […]