BY DR. LOU ALPERT In the wake of this column’s charges of “FORCED” imposition by Microsoft of Windows 10 on the operating systems of the computers of many of their customers, Attorney-General Eric Schneiderman is actively pursuing the cases of affected Microsoft customers for their alleged damages caused by the company in FORCING or DECEIVING […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Not even the U.S. Supreme Court could decide what this nation should do to get a grip on its immigration problems. The high court recently deadlocked 4-4 on the issue of whether President Obama’s executive order on immigration, which would have protected millions of undocumented people from being deported, was constitutional. Minus […]
BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY Rockland County is being asked to pay millions for a water desalination plant that will never be built. The Public Service commission, which is supposed to be the watchdog for consumers, stood by and did nothing as Suez, our water company, spent $54 million on a plant that was […]
To the Editor, Since when is safety-consciousness a bad thing? Those who oppose Indian Point like to shout that the brief precautionary shutdown of Indian Point 2 last week, shortly after it had reopened, indicated a risk to the public. In fact, precisely the opposite is true. For the past five years, the plant has received the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Three-year-old twins, children of a sheriff’s deputy, were found unresponsive inside the family pickup truck on a day temperatures were in the 90s. They were pronounced dead at the hospital. Summer has only just arrived, but already the annual death count has begun. Record-breaking temperatures have been registered across the country, and […]
To the Editor, It’s a shame Tom DePrisco would disparage legislation that virtually every East Rampo public school advocacy groups support and have been working day and night to get passed. Then again I can understand why he might be conflicted considering he is running to support the Republican Majority that blocked the original bill. […]