By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Many of you already know that the Rockland Department of Health declared a Stage II water emergency last week and put in place water restrictions limiting how often lawns can be watered, among other water-saving steps. Since then, we’ve gotten a little rain, but not enough. We are hoping […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Among America’s massive workforce are some 900,000 citizens who head out the door every day knowing they could wind up dead. Can you imagine having a job like that? These 900,000 are state and local law enforcement officers, the front line we Americans have to keep us safe. Fewer than 1 million […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Everyone knows teenagers say and do stupid things. Sometimes, really stupid things. And unless you’ve kept the teenager in your life under a rock, they also text each other way too much. AÂ criminal case in Massachusetts highlights how both those behaviors –thoughtless actions and texting out every thought in one’s head — […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day There is one relatively easy way to help diffuse the tensions we see across the nation between police and the communities they serve: encourage communities to become the police. Integrating the community into the police force is a key to successful community policing. Here is Rockland, residents now have […]
To the Editor, Take a serious look at what our once fantastic country has fallen to. A country where cops are criminals and felons are victims. People that don’t work get a free ride on the backs of those that do. We don’t contribute enough, claim the Democrats. The president bargains with terrorists, we supply […]
BY DIANE DIMOND What’s that old axiom? Prosecutors have so much power they could indict a ham sandwich? Apparently that does not apply when it comes to career politicians who are seeking the highest office in the land. Minutes after FBI Director James Comey’s news conference, at which he outlined the bureau’s yearlong investigation of […]