Legal Watch

Federal Law is Changing Rockland’s Zoning Landscape BY LEGAL LARRY In 2000, Congress enacted a law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. This law is commonly known by the acronym โ€œRLUIPA.โ€ The crux of this article will focus on the first part of the law concerning religious land use. It is […]

Bad Laws Make Bad Politics

BY DIANE DIMOND Our political system is all messed up. I won’t even couch that with an “allegedly” or a “reportedly” — it is just a mess, and our federal election laws are a joke. You want to know exactly where a candidate has gotten money to stage their expensive campaign? I sure do. I […]

Reconnecting Rockland: โ€œModernist Zoning Controls Our Townsโ€

Reconnecting Rockland: โ€œModernist Zoning Controls Our Townsโ€

BY JARED RODRIGUEZ A forward thinking (and backward looking) monthly column on zoning, planning, and development by Jared Rodriguez, a Stony Point native schooled in civil engineering, architecture, and real estate development. Americans determine what products are sold and what buildings are built by choosing where to live and what to buy, in an open […]

Dollars & Sen$e: Summer Hedging Strategies from the Proโ€™s

Dollars & Sen$e: Summer Hedging Strategies from the Proโ€™s

BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services As markets and investors are roiled by the ongoing troubles in Greece and growing worries over Spanish banks, it may now be time to look at gold as an investment again. With the S&P down about 6 percent in May, and no sign of the European […]