BY DIANE DIMOND Lee Boyd Malvo, inmate No. 330873, incarcerated at the super-maximum Red Onion State Prison in Virginia has a business plan to make himself some money. He either doesn’t know it is against the law or he doesn’t care. You won’t learn about this story anywhere else. I was only able to piece […]
To the Editor, One resonant theme of the NYS Public Service Commission proceedings in Albany regarding United Water and Rockland County, is “Outreach and Education”. The arrogant French-controlled utility lives in the same existential self-deception bemoaned by Sartre. United Water’s Jersey middle-management operatives tell us that our opposition to desalination and rate-increases are a mere […]
BY PETER ROFF Op-ed originally published in US News and World Report Most of the pundits who follow national politics have already made up their minds about what’s going on in New York. They see the possibility of a GOP pickup of two or even three seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, especially if […]
BY ROBERT P. ASTORINO New York state stands to reap billions from the fines paid by French banking giant BNP Paribas to settle money-laundering charges. The one-time windfall should go to address our urgent capital-construction needs, including the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement — and to undoing a decades-old fiscal gimmick that continues to hamstring the […]
BY SALLY C. PIPES Is $84,000 too much to pay to save a life? That’s a question worth asking now that the insurance industry has declared war on what it has deemed outrageous prices for new specialty drugs. In this case, the complaints focus on Sovaldi, a breakthrough treatment that gives three million people suffering […]
BY MICHAEL JAMES BARTON Once again, our military leaders face a tradeoff. Can the United States meet the serious new security challenges we face while staying within strict budget limits? To do so, policymakers will have to make some very tough choices that leverage our existing capabilities while also planning for the future. Foreign threats […]