County Executive’s Corner: Following the Rules

County Executive’s Corner: Following the Rules

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day A couple of years ago, I put a small addition onto my house so I could expand my kitchen. Before I did, I applied for and received a permit from my town, hired licensed contractors and, when it was just about done, had the work – plumbing, electrical, construction […]

Thinking Outside the Box on Sentencing Guidelines

Thinking Outside the Box on Sentencing Guidelines

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 […]

WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE FORMER MINISCEONGO GOLF COURSE?

Open Letter to the Ramapo Planning Department, The property located at 110 New Pomona Road in unincorporated section of the Town of Ramapo was sold on January 20, 2016.  The seller of this property, the Minisceongo Golf Course, was Eric Bergstol and the reported sale price was $32 million. The buyer of this property is reported to be […]

DIMOND: America’s Murder-Inequality Hot Spots

BY DIANE DIMOND Here’s a thought. Maybe we’ve been going about trying to reduce the rising murder rate in this country the wrong way. Maybe, instead of taking an aerial view of the problem, we should have been looking at things from down at the street level — analyzing crime reports neighborhood by neighborhood to […]