Elizabeth Johnson & Risa Hoag Honored For Business Efforts

Elizabeth Johnson & Risa Hoag Honored For Business Efforts

Legislator Paul Leads Program To Recognize Successful Local Entrepreneurs With Deep Community Service Backgrounds Legislature Also Celebrates Minority and Women Business Enterprise Awareness   New City, NY (Dec. 23, 2019) – Two local successful businesswomen with extensive community service backgrounds have been honored for their achievements by the Rockland County Legislature. Elizabeth A. Johnson, who founded Senior […]

Good Sam lights new menorah

Good Sam lights new menorah

BY SCOTT WATERS On December 19 Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern held an installation ceremony to unveil a new 9 ft. high menorah that will be displayed outside the hospital. It was donated by Meyer Tauber, the CEO of Metrex Realty, a Rockland County based Real Estate Company. Tauber has a special connection to the […]

Skoufis Slams Governor’s Veto of PBM Accountability Bill

Skoufis Slams Governor’s Veto of PBM Accountability Bill

Statement from State Senator James Skoufis: “With his veto tonight, Governor Cuomo inexplicably sided with drug company middle-men, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), instead of consumers and independent pharmacists. PBMs are engaged in highway robbery and S.6531, endorsed by the Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee’s investigative report, would’ve begun to reign them in. After a […]

Skoufis finds urgent need for reform of public authorities and IDAs

In March of 2019, Senator James Skoufis, Chair of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, opened an investigation into the compliance and practices of public authorities, including industrial development agencies (IDAs), across New York State. Earlier this month, the Committee issued information and document requests to 143 public authorities including state authorities, local […]

Kudos to Trump for cracking down on H-1B visa abuse

Kudos to Trump for cracking down on H-1B visa abuse

By Ryan Girdusky President Trump’s administration is delivering for American workers. During his time as President, the number of H-1B guestworker visa denials are at a decade high. For years, employers have used the H-1B program to displace qualified Americans and import cheaper foreign labor. Tightening this program’s requirements could save millions of Americans from […]