Open letter from recently defeated longtime Airmont Trustees Ralph Bracco and Dennis Cohen It has been the honor of our lives to serve you, the people of Airmont, since 1991. We’re very proud that our efforts have paid off, beginning with our work in forming the village and continuing with acquiring our Village Hall on […]
BY DIAND DIMOND “Guilty.” The jury foreman pronounced that verdict 45 times as former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with dozens of counts of sexually molesting young boys, stood at the defense table with his hand casually tucked inside his pants pocket. I attended every day of that unforgettable trial and can […]
BY ANTHONY MELE The rogue ruling by a federal judge in Hawaii Wednesday, March 15 imposing a temporary restraining order aimed at interfering with an Executive Order calling for the vetting of travelers from six failed countries, notorious for jihadist activity, hours before it was set to go into effect; is malicious judicial malfeasance, that shamelessly […]
BY DIANE DIMOND In my continued effort to inform readers about what can happen when a family asks a judge to decide a dispute over what to do with their aging parent, may I call your attention to the state of Nevada? The Sagebrush State spawned a court-appointed financial guardian to beat all others! April […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Sometime this week the unthinkable could happen: Brinks killer Judith Clark could go before the state Parole Board and win release from prison. This possibility is so hard to comprehend because our justice system decided more than 30 years ago that Judith Clark needed to spend 75 years to […]
To the Editor, The Clean Energy Standard (CES) that ensures upstate nuclear plants continue to operate provides far-reaching environmental benefits for all New Yorkers, not just upstate, as some have asserted. The plants avoid 16 million tons of carbon emissions released into the air we breathe. Importantly, according to one analysis, the CES’s nuclear provision […]