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 […]
BY PHILIP C. ROVENTINI CPA There are two education credits (dollar for dollar reduction of tax) that are available to taxpayers who have qualified education expenses for themselves and for their dependents. One is the American Opportunity Credit. This can be a credit of up to $2,500 per eligible student. It is available if the […]
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 […]