In addition to costing taxpayers as much as $60 million, Comptroller DiNapoli accuses Town of Ramapo of sloppy computer security and allowing workers to inappropriately peruse porn and social media sites. Ramapo denies assertions. The Office of the State Comptroller recently released its audit of the Pomona stadium project with some very interesting results. In […]
Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato was sworn in on February 6 as the President of the New York State Association of County Clerks (NYSACC) in Albany, NY. For hundreds of years, 62 county clerks from across New York State have served as clerks to supreme and county courts. They also fill the role of recording/records […]
The New York State Thruway Authority and the New York State Department of Transportation on Tuesday released the list of qualified competitive bidders for the new Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project. Statements of Qualification were received from five design-build consortiums, and four internationally known groups were deemed qualified after a thorough multi-agency technical review. […]
The Rockland County Times has followed through on the promise to donate to a local charity 10 percent of net sales from a special section honoring the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The Rockland County Times donated the proceeds to the Thomas J. Foley Memorial Foundation, with the purpose of distributing […]
Working in conjunction with New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Orange) today announced that he will be hosting an Unclaimed Funds Forum, a free workshop for residents to find out if they are entitled to any unclaimed funds in the possession of New York State. The event will be held this […]
Two grandparents on opposite ends of the continent each had a concern about the direction of education reform and its effect on their grandchildren. Through a chain of improbable circumstances they found each other on Facebook and conjured up a letter to President Obama expressing their concerns. Mark Naison, Ph.D., from Brooklyn, NY and a […]