TRUMP SUPPORTER IS FED UP WITH THE DIRECTION OF OUR COUNTRY

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 […]

Here’s the Law. You Decide

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 […]

County Executive’s Corner: Using Money to Make Money

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day We send a lot of our money to the federal government in the form of the taxes we pay. It’s nice to get some of it back. We got a whole lot of it back last week, when I announced that $2.38 million in federal grants were being awarded […]

Historic Lessons to Guide the Immigration Debate

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 […]

THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S CORNER: “We’re Getting Hosed”

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 […]