New City – Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann announced the “kick-off” of the Clarkstown Cares Coat Drive. The program runs now through December 20th. The town is collecting coats for kids and adults with the help of four local dry cleaners. The cleaners will clean the coats free of charge, and then forward them to three distribution […]
By Gary Locke and Erik Paulsen While Washington is often dominated with partisan gridlock, Congress can put politics aside and improve the everyday lives of Americans by passing a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal that would replace the outdated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA needed to be modernized and the […]
Saint Nicholas Day at the Historical Society of Rockland County When: Saturday, December 7: 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m. Sunday, December 8: 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m. Program duration: 45 minutes Where: Jacob Blauvelt House, 20 Zukor Road, New City Price: $5 per person (adults and children) Visit the Historical Society of Rockland […]
By Michael Stumo There are plenty of news commentators who say America’s workers are doing just fine. They see low consumer prices, low unemployment, and a booming stock market as signs that all is well. But out in the real world, things are more worrying. Millions of Americans are barely subsisting on retail work in […]
BY DIANE DIMOND There are some citizens who, in this season of Thanksgiving, believe America is going to hell in a handbasket. I am not one of them. From my perch in the world of crime and justice, I find more than 686,000 reasons to be thankful. That’s the number of full-time law enforcement officers […]
We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Another baseball season has come to an end (although it ended a very long time ago from the Mets’ point of view), and we find ourselves looking forward to 2020 and attempting to be more optimistic about the future than we are about the present. With the Mets, that […]