BY DIANE DIMOND We, in America, like to say that what happens behind closed doors is nobody else’s business. But what if what happens between consenting adults results in the rest of us having to pay out billions of dollars when things go wrong? It is happening year after year. Taxpayers are footing the bill […]
BY JANET TRAUTWEIN The Obama Administration recently announced that it would delay until 2015 the health reform law’s “employer mandate,” which will require all companies with at least 50 full-time employees to offer health insurance or pay a fine. The delay represents a big help to large firms. Now it’s time for the administration to […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Now that the flaming rhetoric over the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting case has mostly subsided, it seems like a good time to more calmly discuss the issue of racism in America. Does it exist? You bet it does. But intellectually honest people have to admit prejudice is a longstanding exercise practiced by […]
To the Editor: Over a period of nine years (December 1994 through November 2003) the Village Board of Suffern (Messrs. Glinksy, Haggerty, Meehan, Traub and myself) raised $1.003 million for downtown improvement projects. As part of those improvements I was able to have two benches installed at the park located at Lafayette and Orange Avenues, […]
BY MATT SHI The electronic cigarette, introduced to the U.S. market in 2007, is an increasingly popular alternative to smoking tobacco for nicotine intake. From the outside, most e-cigarettes look like regular cigarettes, but the inside is very different: E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco. Also, they do not need to be lit by fire. They […]
BY DR. JEFFREY OPPENHEIM, MAYOR OF MONTEBELLO In 2010, former speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said of the then pending Obamacare bill, “we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what is in it.” These words may live in infamy as the country begins now to […]