Well, the Spectator hit the ripe old age of 94 on February 19. It was President’s day and I gave the whole county a holiday in my name. When I was a kid, Lincoln had his own holiday on February 12 and Washington his on February 22. I remember fondly my days growing up on […]
Column by State Senator David Carlucci On Monday, February 26 at 6 p.m. I am holding a seminar at the Clarkstown Town Hall for employees and employers to discuss paid family leave. I know people may have questions about how it works since it just took effect this year. I worked to pass paid family leave legislation, […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Ombudsman Starting today, February 22, 2018, this writer has launched a program in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to demand that senators and congresspersons representing these states support legislation he restore the right of tax payers to itemize and deduct their high state and local taxes (SALT) on their […]
Community View A letter to Senator Carluci, Assemblyman Zembrowski & Assemblywoman Jaffee from Monsey resident Asher Kaufman Fourteen years ago the Town of Ramapo produced a Comprehensive Plan and the only mention of Seniors living in single family homes is to say they “no longer need or want the responsibilities associated with maintenance of a […]
January 25 seminar brings community leaders, health experts and addicts together OP-ED BY OLEG KHAGHANI In Rockland County there were 35 deaths from an Opioid overdose in 2016, which is an 875 percent increase in the last decade according to statistics kept by the NY State Department of Health, and these numbers continue to climb […]
Statement from Republican gubernatorial candidate John A. DeFrancisco Governor Andrew Cuomo’s convoluted new personal income tax scheme — it would create up to 2,287 new bureaucratic entities in New York — is “the work of a mind severed from reason and reality,” New York state senator and Republican gubernatorial candidate John A. DeFrancisco today charged. […]