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 […]
Dear President Tripathi, It has been reported that the University at Buffalo is refusing to reveal how much the University paid Hillary Clinton to speak last year. The same news reports reveal that Clinton receives a standard speaking fee of $200,000 or more. New York State taxpayers and your university students have a right to […]
Dear Governor Cuomo and Secretary Burgess, There is no need at all for United Water Suez’s desalination project in Rockland County New York. We have plenty of water for the long term future. After all, we receive 50 inches of rainfall per year, and our aquifers recharge at a healthy, sustainable rate. I’m an environmental […]
To the editor, News 12 this week aired a special report focusing on recent disturbing incidents of sexual abuse in the Village of New Square. The six-minute feature spotlighted the criminal case of Rabbi Moshe Taubenfeld, an accused predator indicted by a Rockland County Grand Jury for the repeated molestation of a young male victim […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Another Fourth of July is upon us, and every year I try to think past the BBQ’s and beer and ponder the origin of Independence Day. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among […]