Lalor asks, “Cuomo’s minimum wage tax credits encourage replacing adult employees with teenagers. Does anybody read these laws before they print them?” Statement on the Minimum Wage Proposal from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill) It looks like Governor Cuomo and Speaker Silver have made a mess of it again. Their new minimum wage […]
BY DIANE DIMOND “There are crimes very similar to this that occur every Friday night and every Saturday night in communities across this country … .” — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine Many of us watched with interest the rape case that recently played out in Steubenville, Ohio. The two defendants — Trent Mays, 17, […]
BY JONATHAN GRADESS A half century has passed since the Supreme Court’s Gideon v. Wainwright decision directed states to provide counsel for the poor in criminal cases. New York continues to renege on this duty. Responding to Gideon, New York set up a patchwork system of county-based providers, a “system” without meaningful oversight, appropriate funding, […]
Kristen Stavisky loses her marbles defending Coe’s feelings; recruits Dem soldiers to sign hostile petition BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Dear readers, apparently my editorial in the Rockland County Times portraying Rockland Democrats as being crazed for attending a fundraiser named after the notorious “Fifty Shades” erotica masterpiece didn’t go over too well…with some Democrats. This despite […]
Stealth – unelected – accountable to no one EDITORIAL BY LYNN TEGER Founder, Citizens for Protection of Property Rights in Rockland County The United Nations is working towards global disarmament through their US Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (“ATT”) which is being held this week in New York. Many UN Member Nations have already […]
To the Editor, I saw nothing edgy about RCT’s satirical expose of the Young Democrats “Fifty Shades” fundraiser. You merely pointed out how inappropriate it was to name a fundraiser after a piece of literary trash – rubbish that only saw traction because of the breakdown of morality that is being championed by this Rockland […]