BY DIANE DIMOND Note to Quentin Tarantino: Shut up. I don’t ask my house painter to do my taxes. I don’t want my dentist involved in re-designing my bathroom, and I certainly don’t ask my car mechanic to run my website. Everyone has their strengths in life, Mr. Tarantino, and while you may be a […]
To the Editor, The news media continue to talk about the “bloc.” What they don’t recognize is that despite continued rapid growth in the Hasidic community, St. Lawrence’s political support seems stuck with about 13,000 votes. What has happened is quite simple. As his Hasidic vote has grown his support in the Orthodox community has […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Can I just vent this week? Please? Thank you. I am a sympathetic person; really, I am. But the excessive and fawning news coverage of former NBA player Lamar Odom’s illegal drug use and self-imposed near-death experience has been disgusting. To say the coverage has been excessive and out of proportion to […]
To the Editor, We are registered Democrats with a longstanding commitment to our party, its principles and its candidates. Nevertheless, on November 3, 2015, we intend to vote for Christopher Carey, the Republican candidate for Rockland County Legislator in the Ninth Legislative District. We have made this decision because we believe that Thomas Ninan, the Democratic candidate, does not have the requisite capacity to succeed […]
Today, my neighbors and I received a troubling political flyer about the possible closing of the Congers pool. This is the very same pool my family and I have enjoyed for the past nineteen years. Wanting verification, I reviewed the official meeting minutes of the 9/18/2014 Clarkstown Parks Board and Recreation Commission Workshop. I discovered […]
To the Editor, Doug Jobson, Jr. is getting a “free pass” into another term of the R.C. Legislature based upon (mistaken) technicalities. I am a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and a lawyer who believes is democracy and contested elections. I’d like to believe that democracy works in America. Yet I see that […]