By Rockland County Executive Ed Day On Tuesday night, I made my annual visit to the Legislative Chambers to deliver my third State of the County message. The 40-minute speech allowed me to update residents on how far we’ve come in the past two years, and what lies ahead this year and beyond. Because of […]
From New York State Educational Conference Board The state’s leading education organizations unanimously recommended that New York reform its receivership law to create a more reasonable timeframe to turn-around struggling schools, and to commit additional funding to create more community schools and better conditions for teaching and learning in these schools. The Educational Conference Board – […]
BY DIANE DIMOND How many times have you heard someone say, “Believe me; I know it’s true. I saw it with my own eyes!” When someone passionately tells us he or she was an eyewitness to an event we are programmed to believe his or her story. It happens in courtrooms all across the country […]
PRESS RELEASE AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NOVEMBER TEAM CONSULTING FIRM Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) sent the clearest instructions yet to New York public relations executives late Friday: Do not communicate with editorial writers. Doing so will trigger arduous JCOPE oversight. Under JCOPE’s controversial and unilaterally achieved new “Advisory Opinion,” New […]
BY DIANE DIMOND The law says dangerous or illegal actions have consequences. Countless U.S. citizens enter the justice system every year after authorities determine they physically or emotionally harmed someone, financially cheated another person or exposed people to peril. So why do government employees so often escape the punishment you or I would face in […]