Three Tax Scams to Beware of This Summer

IRS Tax Tips Are you thinking about taxes while you’re enjoying the warm summer months? Not likely! But the IRS wants you to know that scammers are thinking about taxes and ways to dupe you out of your money. Tax scams can happen anytime of the year, not just during tax season. Three common year-round […]

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Al Jazeera’s Anti-American Propaganda

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Al Jazeera’s Anti-American Propaganda

Fishkill, NY – (8/26/13) – New York State Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill), a Marine Corps veteran of Iraq, is calling on Verizon, Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network to drop the notoriously anti-American, anti-Semitic and misogynistic Al Jazeera from their basic cable packages. Lalor is calling for a boycott of the television providers if […]

Kaitlyn’s Calamity — A Mess of Her Own Making

BY DIANE DIMOND Here’s a lesson everyone needs to learn. Don’t violate a court order. It will only make your problems worse. There is never an acceptable excuse for going against what a judge has ordered. Not even if you think it is unfair. Not even if it’s a matter of the heart. Not long […]

Letter to the Editor: THE BUTLER

To the Editor, The movie, “The Butler,” is a fictionalized version of a former white house butler! What’s not fictional is Jane Fonda portraying First Lady Nancy Reagan. Nancy Reagan conducted herself in a matter that earned the right to be referred as to the first lady. Now the film industry is honoring a traitor, […]

Tax Reform Should Put Consumers First — Not Banks

BY PATRICIA WESENBERG As tax reform picks up speed in Congress, special-interest groups are storming Capitol Hill to ensure that they get favorable tax treatment. Fortunately, some groups — like credit unions — are looking out for the interests of hard-working Americans in this tax reform debate. For years, big banks have been trying to […]

Letter to the Editor: ILAN, REALLY? REALLY? REALLY?

To the Editor, On September 10, Rockland County executive candidate Ilan Schloenberger will be hoping to secure the Democratic nomination in the hopes of winning the general election in November to become our next chief executive officer. During Ilan’s leadership as chairman of the Finance Committee, Rockland County has realized a more than $100 million […]