BY DIANE DIMOND Truth be told, we do a pretty good job in this country of keeping track of automobiles, doctors and teachers. We do a pretty lousy job keeping track of rogue police officers. That’s right. There is no comprehensive national system for tracking bad-seed officers. The result is so-called “gypsy cops,” who leave […]
BY JERRY DONNELLAN It’s been 2-1/2 years since the scandal at the Phoenix VA broke. If you remember, 40 veterans had died waiting for medical care. The Inspector General’s (IG) report just came out the beginning of October. Has anything changed? No – it’s sad to say it hasn’t. Phoenix wasn’t the only VA Hospital that was in trouble, […]
To the Editor, Thanks for the great coverage of the Haverstraw 400th Anniversary celebration events. The recent dinner at the Elk’s Club was top-notch. The celebration has lasted all year, starting with the opening on Feb. 22 at Town Hall, and then multiple events every month thereafter. My exhibit “Dutchtown and Major Andre” opened at […]
OP-ED BY KATHY KAHN This presidential cycle trumps (no pun intended, okay, pun intended) all that has gone before in modern history—since we are all mortal, no one can say if Washington rocked and rolled behind Martha’s back—but the choice between a successful businessman and a career politician is something we’ll all be talking about […]
BY DIANE DIMOND It should not have taken a leak of Donald Trump’s 20-year-old tax returns to highlight what’s wrong with America’s tax system. U.S. citizens have felt the acute unfairness for decades. Who hasn’t looked at their tax refund and wished there were a way to escape the burden? The way the tax code […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day When the people of Rockland County put their faith in me to be County Executive nearly three years ago, I made a promise: I said I would fix this county’s financial mess. And what a mess it was. Rockland had earned the shameful distinction of most fiscally stressed municipality […]