To the Editor, With the school board elections next week it is an opportunity for the parents/taxpayers of Ramapo to send a message. For over a decade, Craig Long has been on the BOE. Since he took the reins as president, RCSD has been mired in scandals and financial disasters. Here are some lowlights from […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill) is asking President Obama to support Scaffold Law reform that would save state and federal taxpayers $390 million on the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Lalor released a letter to President Obama as the president visited the Tappan Zee site to tout new infrastructure investment. “New […]
To the Editor, National Nursing Home Week (NNHW), which begins on Mother’s Day May 11 and runs through May 17, honors the residents and patients currently in skilled nursing and rehabilitation care centers across the nation with special activities and events. Sponsored each year since 1967 by the American Health Care Association (AHCA), this year’s […]
BY MATT BARBER A $2.5 million fine, a lifetime ban from the NBA and potential confiscation of his personal property through the forced sale of the L.A. Clippers? Are you kidding? That’s it? Donald Sterling is a racist pig. “First stone” first shmone. This thing ain’t over by a long shot. As CBS reports, “Donald […]
COLUMN BY DIANE DIMOND It’s clearly time to bring back firing squads. If we’re going to keep carrying out the death penalty in this country and if we are going to continue to grandly insist that they are “humane executions” then only a return to a firing squad will insure a speedy and relatively pain-free […]
To the Editor, When a municipality transfers money from one accounting line to another it is supposed to pass a resolution authorizing the transfer. Under exceptional circumstances funds can even be loaned from one tax line to another, but they must be returned by the end of the year (with interest). Thanks to the persistence […]