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 […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Three years ago when I was running for office, I described my goals for Rockland as a three-legged stool. Our core priories were and – still are – stabilizing Rockland’s finances, preserving our quality of life and, critically, making Rockland work again. When I became County Executive, the unemployment […]
BY MICHAEL JACOBS Ah…. The magic mushrooms, also known as just ‘shrooms’ – the kind, legend has it, that the pizza chain Mellow Mushroom used to put on top of their pizza. Just what are these hallucinogenic fungi and how do they affect the body? Can they be taken in a way besides being eaten? […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day As soon as the snow stopped falling after last week’s blizzard we began making plans to get county buses back on the roads. We understand how important those buses are to the nearly 10,000 people who ride them every day. Those riders depend on the buses to get […]