To the Editor, We are Orangetown veterans who have proudly served our nation in World War II and Vietnam. The attacks on Supervisor candidate Thom Kleiner by a reader last week are unfounded and mean spirited and we, as veterans, disavow them. Each of us has known Thom Kleiner for the better part of 25 […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Football is proven to be dangerous to players’ health. Why isn’t it regulated? Our government — both state and federal — has countless laws and regulations designed to keep citizens safe and healthy, from safety standards on the foods we eat and the cars we drive, to laws that govern workers […]
Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement in response to Empire State Development’s shameless bragging about taxpayer-financed productions winning Emmy awards: “The state’s film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they’re forcing New York taxpayers to finance. “New […]
Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Freedom to Read More than a book a day faces expulsion from free and open public access in U.S. schools and libraries every year. There have been more than 10,000 attempts since the American Library Association (ALA) began electronically compiling and publishing information on book challenges in 1990. Thirty-five […]
The Rockland County Times has obtained pre-absentee ballot district-by-district vote tallies for the county executive and Surrogate Court justice primaries. The two hotly contested elections display the degree to which the Rockland electorate has coalesced into “Ramapo bloc vote” vs. “Anti-Ramapo bloc vote” camps. The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not […]
The story of local hero, Welles Crowther, was told in a world premiere film – “Man in Red Bandana” – in Suffern. Crowther, a 24-year-old from Upper Nyack, died during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 after helping at least 20 people to safety from the South Tower, including a woman who he carried […]