BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY I’ve always loved studying history – especially the history of our great nation. I still get chills when I read about our Founding Fathers and the framework they set more than two centuries ago for our nation. They envisioned a peaceful transfer of power as we, the people, elected […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Whenever I write about serial killers, guns and the death penalty, my inbox blows up. Last week’s column about convicted murderer Dylann Roof and America’s policy of capital punishment — public support for it, the costs associated with it and its usefulness in deterring other criminals — definitely stirred passions. Some readers […]
To the Editor, For years the Cuomo administration; state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; and their hysterical and retrograde antinuclear allies, including Riverkeeper, have waged a shameless campaign of fear, loathing, and—in the fashion of the day—fake news against Indian Point. “Not safe!” they cried, in determined contradiction of the repeatedly rendered expert opinion of the […]
Open letter to all voters, I am asking you to join me in calling on the New York State Board of Parole to deny the release from prison of Judith Clark. Judith Clark was the driver of a getaway car in a 1981 robbery of the Brink’s armored car in Rockland County that left security […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Governor Andrew Cuomo thinks that local governments need a lecture on how to save money. He publicly “ordered” all county executives to convene meetings to develop plans to cut property taxes and then put the plan to a vote. No conversation, no discussion, no respect for fellow executives ¬– […]
THEY GIVE THEIR TOMORROWS — FOR OUR TODAYS IF YOU CAN READ THIS IN ENGLISH — THANK A VETERAN January 15, 2017 Letter’s To The Editor As an American citizen, and Korean War Vet. year after year I have seen that we were proud to be American. Sunday is a day to get family and […]