Cuomo Spends Federal Sandy Aid on Advertising
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Preserving What Works: The Perks of Employer-Provided Coverage
BY JANET TRAUTWEIN Federal officials recently made some discouraging predictions about the future of American health care. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office forecast that seven million Americans will lose or drop their employer-provided health insurance by 2022. Families across the country used to getting coverage through work will soon have to find and pay for […]
Obama’s Energy Tax Myths
BY MERRILL MATTHEWS President Obama says special tax breaks for the oil and gas industry must end. The demand always prompts puzzled gazes among tax and energy-industry experts, who ask: What tax breaks? Thanks in part to a bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland and ranking member on the House […]
Community view: Why I am Voting No on May 21
BY DIEGO AVILES Thiells resident, North Rockland Central School District parent Since January, I have been attending North Rockland District’s Board Meetings and been listening to all the 2013-2014 Budget presentations. While I applaud the board’s efforts to reduce more than $40 million from the budget in the last five years through innovation and consolidation, […]
Where is the Black Church?
BY DERRYCK GREEN Problems infecting and affecting the black community must be addressed in a serious and sincere manner. Many of these problems center around moral values that were once readily available and in abundance among black Americans. Now they are increasingly becoming rare. To deal with this crisis, there should be a focused and […]
Cox Correctly Calls Democrats New Campaign Finance Plan “Welfare for Politicians”
“Welfare for Politicians won’t Clean Up Gov’t“ First published in the New York Post BY ED COX, NY GOP Chief New York taxpayers are the most beleaguered in America; they don’t need to start forking over even more money to fund political campaigns. It’s welfare for politicians. Last week, more than 70 Democratic Assembly Members […]