PRESS RELEASE- The Empire Center’s online “Explore Your State Budget” app has been updated to reflect data in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed Executive Budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins April 1. The database of New York state budget information, which is accessible through the Center’s SeeThroughNY website, includes actual results, estimates and projections […]
BY CHRIS HANLY INVESTMENT CONSULTANT, GARY GOLDBERG FINANCIAL SERVICES We sure live in interesting and exciting times, especially from an investment perspective. I can’t think of anyone who predicted a 7-8 percent market rally on November 9th, the day after Mr. Trump became President Elect Trump. Regardless of how you feel about President Trump, this […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- Rockland County Executive Edwin J. Day stood before a crowd of over 100 persons-mostly supporters-as he delivered his annual State of the County address Tuesday evening in the Rockland Legislature’s Chamber. “We have been working for three years to transform this county from near bankruptcy with an unsustainable tax-and-spend cycle […]
BY SONIA OWCHARIW Kenneth Del Vecchio, chairman and festival founder, is launching the Hollywood-style glitz of the Hoboken International Film Festival (HIFF) in Greenwood Lake on May 19 to 25 at the Thomas Morahan Waterfront Park, on the north end. This is the first year at the Greenwood Lake location, and Del Vecchio promises that it […]
A ribbon-cutting was held in December to open the Ellen Nodelman Creativity Center/STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Lab. Thanks to the new lab classes at RCDS now have the tools to design, prototype, build, and innovate! Interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving and changing the way students think about issues/problems are the hallmarks of design […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Change is often a good thing. Thinking outside the box can bring about dynamic and fresh solutions to longstanding problems. That’s why I’m hoping that President Trump’s administration — which is on record as wanting to upend the status quo in Washington, D.C. — will employ this kind of thinking with the […]