BY GEORGE J. DACRE Director Peter Garruba has scheduled the auditions for “Squabbles” at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack for Monday February 11 and Tuesday February 12 both at 7 p.m. Callbacks are Wednesday February 13 at 7 p.m. at the theatre on Park Street. He says the cast breakdown includes: – Jerry Sloan; a 38-year-old […]
PRO: Minimum Wage Increase Makes Good Business Sense BY DARIUS ROSS When Governor Cuomo called for raising New York’s minimum wage, he expressed not only his own view, but also the convictions of 80 percent of New Yorkers who agree that the state’s lowest-paid workers are in urgent need of a raise. As a business […]
A New York appellate court has ruled in favor of the NYPD’s decision NOT to release the addresses of gun permit holders’ to the NY Times newspaper. The court found that a lower court had erred in ruling that the Times should have access to the information. The court agreed the information could endanger permit […]
BY KATHY KAHN Special to the Rockland County Times With the cost of community college “chargebacks” becoming increasingly unsustainable for New York’s 62 counties, many are now passing those costs down to local cities and towns. New York Community College Trustees’ forum, “Operating Chargebacks: A Critical Component in the Funding Partnership for New York’s Community […]
To the editor, Just when you think you have seen it all in local politics, someone raises the bar to new levels of unbelievability. Do politicians really think that the average voter is a dolt? It seems obvious that Dagan Lacorte, the purveyor of his very own Rockland brand of the Nixon-style politics, thinks we […]
Editor, Now county executive candidate Dagan Lacorte says he wants to raise the level of the campaign, an action so incredulous as it came out a few days after he was caught spying on a candidate in a clear attempt to get “dirt” on someone who he claims to be a “friend.” Well, he has […]