HUMOR BY ELLA STEINBECK Subway trains can be viewed as an efficient way to move mass numbers of people from point A to point B. They can be viewed as a place where you are held hostage temporarily for 2 or 3 minutes at a time. They can also be viewed as a really bad […]
To the Editor, Across New York State voters are responding to a June 3 announcement the Governor Cuomo and the State Health Department have partnered with a British pharmaceutical company to conduct clinical trials with a product made from marijuana, Epidiolex. Why are medical marijuana advocates inflamed over Governor Cuomo’s actions? Well, why is Governor […]
The man blasting away with a shotgun paused to reload, and Jon Meis saw his chance. The 22-year-old building monitor pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman Thursday in Seattle Pacific University’s Otto Miller Hall, likely preventing further carnage, according to police and university officials. Meis and other students subdued him until officers arrived and handcuffed him […]
The Wisconsin family of the “strong, brave girl” who was allegedly stabbed 19 times by her two friends after a weekend sleepover has posted a letter near the site of her rescue, providing first-time details about the injured sixth-grader amid her release from the hospital today. “We, the family, of the 12-year-old victim in Waukesha, […]
COUNTY EXECUTIVE PRESS RELEASE NEW CITY, NY — Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Rockland County Veterans Service Agency Director Jerry Donnellan Thursday marked the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion at the Camp Shanks Museum in Orangetown. From 1943 until the end of World War II, Camp Shanks was the largest Army port of […]
BY MARGO THORNING President Obama recently released his fiscal year 2015 budget proposal. In it, he calls for greater investments in natural-gas production. This comes shortly after the surprising news of a favorable administration environmental report on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, a planned $7 billion project that would deliver 800,000 barrels of oil […]