Letter from Ed Day to Legislature Budget and Finance Committee: As part of a carefully considered review of county departments and operations, my administration has already cut nearly $3 million in salary and benefits since January 1, 2014, in high-level, upper management positions. However, this resolution sponsored by Legislative Chairman Alden Wolfe, Majority Leader Aron […]
To the Editor, Brega Transport started their TOR contract with the County of Rockland in November 2013 with a fully operational fleet of 62 buses. I have insisted all along they never had a staff of managers or mechanics that had the capability to service the buses properly. Only now, almost 10 months into the […]
To the Editor, On Tuesday, September 9 the Stony Point Town Board held two meetings. At 6 p.m. there was a special “workshop” meeting held by the town’s planner, Tuner Miller Group, on the future rezoning of our Stony Point waterfront for condos and townhouses and at 7 p.m., a presentation about proposed future rezoning […]
OP-ED BY MICHAEL RICONDA Last month, the Town of Ramapo agreed to allow a vote on a ward system, a potentially major change which could swing the balance of power significantly. In essence, the approval of a ward system could temper the inordinate sway the Monsey/Kaser/New Square “bloc vote” can sometimes wield in local elections […]
To the Editor, Having been one of the people involved in “getting out the people” for last years and this years series of Public Service Commission hearings regarding United Water, I thank you for your continuous coverage of the situation. Last year I was part of an educational awareness out reach effort called “Water Week […]
Letter to the Editor, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s popularity has been based on his claim that he would clean up the stink in the NYS legislature. Of course, we now know that he dismissed his own investigative commission when it threatened to look at him. If the Moreland commission had not been disbanded it might have […]
