BY CINDY TRILLO Sustaining an injury in a traffic accident is a terrifying thing. If you’re the injured party, there’s the worry of treatment costs, the impact to your health and whether you’ll have to take any time off work and risk losing pay. For the at fault party, there’s insurance costs and a police investigation […]
At midnight, Congress failed to pass the 2019 fiscal budget and the government is currently in a partial shutdown. Several news outlets have been reporting during the weeks leading up to the vote that the obstacle to a budget bill surrounds the issue of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. […]
Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement on the “Fix NYC” panel’s congestion pricing report: “Congestion pricing would be yet another massive new tax on New Yorkers. It would pass the bill for the MTA’s perpetual waste and management, and the Governor’s pass-the-buck leadership, to hard-working, overburdened commuters who can’t afford it. “More money, […]
BY DIANE DIMOND How fair are criminal trials in America? How confident should we be that prosecutors have the right perpetrator, and how much weight should be put on eyewitness identification of suspects? A growing number of states are now instructing their courts to encourage jurors to ask themselves those very questions. Many studies have […]
Construction Temporarily Limited Due to Winter Weather Tappan Zee Constructors (TZC) is scheduled to re-stripe the westbound lanes near the new bridge tonight, requiring lane closures on the northbound/westbound New York State Thruway (I-87/I-287). Lane closure times and locations are listed in the chart below. LANE CLOSURES NEAR THE BRIDGE DATE: CLOSURES BEGIN: CLOSURES END: LOCATION: […]
This winter is going to be rather cold and snowy in Rockland County so it would be a good idea to recall a couple of recommendations on safe winter driving. Below you can see the main driving tips to keep those in mind when it is snowing. Keep Your Vehicle Fit Your car should always […]