To the editor, Tax Day comes but once a year, except for New Yorkers. For us, Tax Day comes once a month—with every utility bill. We pay the third highest price for electricity in the country, and about 25 percent of that is taxes. Our aggregate utility tax burden costs us at least $1.6 billion […]
BY BENJAMIN GILBERG With the commencement of the new administration without a respite from the bitterness of the election season, we began to see the ramifications of the losing campaign along with the winning one. Included in the 2016 Democratic Party platform was relieving college graduates of enormous and burdensome debt. It was one of […]
BY DIANE 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 […]
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 […]