BY DIANE DIMOND It keeps happening. Nearly every week there are more brutal crimes that bear all the earmarks of being racially motivated but because the victims are white, you will probably never hear about them. We’ve all seen the rallies around black victims of white-perpetrated violent crime — and that’s cool. It’s the right […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Are you or someone you know contemplating a divorce? Are there plans to hire a lawyer and take the matter to court? At the risk of raising the ire of matrimonial lawyers, I say, you might want to rethink that idea. I’ve written in this space about alternative ideas to divorce court, […]
Stony Point supervisor says newspaper was wrong ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES COMMENTARY Continuing his election strategy of disparaging the popular weekly newspaper the Rockland County Times and complaining that the editor-in-chief Dylan Skriloff is running for office against him, Stony Point Supervisor Geoff Finn took to social media to cast doubt on the veracity of numbers […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Ethan Saylor wasn’t like you and me. He was born 26 years ago with Down syndrome. He was a happy, loving, “goofy” brother to younger siblings Emma and Adam. His parents adored him. At one point, Ethan had moved out to live independently, but he had recently moved back to an apartment […]
BY SALLY C. PIPES Obamacare’s state-level health insurance exchanges are set to sign people up in October. But with the federal government on the hook to run 27 of them by itself — and another seven in partnership with states — it’s increasingly likely that they’ll open for enrollment after the official October 1 start […]
BY PETER PITTS Some major American healthcare providers are padding their bottom lines by exploiting a federal program meant to help low-income patients. This behavior is netting them billions in ill-gotten gains. And it could be preventing many vulnerable Americans from accessing the low-cost drugs they need to treat and prevent illness. This abuse needs […]