To the Editor, New Jersey’s native people, the Lenape, which were forcibly exiled to bleak reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas, should be invited to return home and start a pot business. Fort Monmouth, a recently closed U.S. Army base in central New Jersey (near NYC) with the infrastructure of a city, would make an ideal […]
To the Editor, Congress has passed a trillion dollar omnibus spending bill that includes giving trustees of multi-employer pension plans the ability to cut pensions earned by 1.5 million workers and retirees. Many pensions will be cut by up to 50 percent to retirees who are in no position to make up for the monthly […]
The Village of Nyack canceled their New Year’s Fireworks display due to the high cost. I applaud this financially responsible decision made by the village. In the past our tax dollars funded through the state and county contributed to the fireworks display. This was equal to burning our tax dollars. Those interested in fireworks displays […]
To the Editor, Once upon a time in the Town of Orangetown, meetings for the Town Board, Pearl River Board of Education, South Orangetown Board of Education, and Nyack Board of Education were scheduled on different evenings. This afforded Orangetown constituents the opportunity to attend, without conflict, any meeting conducted by any of these four […]
As he rode on a bus to the funeral of Rafael Ramos, retired 84th Precinct NYPD Officer Matthew DeGennaro, a New City Fire Engine member, wrote these words, he shares with the Rockland community: “Sitting on one of the NYPD buses on our way back from the coalition with the Ramos and 84th Precinct families. […]
BY MERRILL MATTHEWS When the new Congress convenes this month, lawmakers should remember that energy won the election. While the economy may have been voters’ primary concern, energy issues played a key role, especially in the states that gave Republicans control of the Senate. It’s a message that those newly elected senators, all of […]