To the Editor, New York state, though not perfect, is the most compassionate state in the union. Now I believe it is time for our state legislators to show compassion to brothers and sisters who are separated by adoption. Our state legislators should show compassion to families who are separated by adoption by passing the […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Just last week, the County Legislature’s Budget and Finance Committee held a public discussion on the inherent shortcomings of Medicaid, which leave the federally-created, state-mandated program vulnerable to rampant fraud and abuse. The Committee’s recent efforts aside, know that my Administration has placed much focus on the program’s deep-rooted deficiencies […]
BY DOUGLAS J. GLADSTONE United States Representative Nita Lowey can help the late Luigi Del Bianco. Lowey, who has been a member of the House of Representatives for the last 26 years, represents New York’s 17th Congressional District, which not only includes much of Rockland County, but the village of Port Chester, in Westchester County, as […]
BY DIANE DIMOND I’ve got two people I’d like to bring together on behalf of the voters of the United States of America. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Preet Bharara. Clinton of Chappaqua, New York, wants to be president. She has already served as a U.S. senator and secretary of state, but there is no doubt […]
BY DIANE DIMOND OK, so let me get this straight. We need to add the conflict in the Middle East to the list of things our politicians cannot agree upon. Is that right? Our schismatic U.S. Congress — the body that makes the laws we are all bound to live by — can’t agree on […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day One in 25 Rockland County residents – four percent of our county’s 320,000 citizens – have served in our nation’s armed forces. Now ranging in age from their early twenties to over 95 years old, they defended the freedoms we hold dear, both during times of conflict and times […]