By County Executive Ed Day Picture this; Rockland County has increased its surplus to levels not seen since the early 2000s, our bonds are ranked in the A-category by ALL the major credit rating agencies, saving tax payer dollars on our needed infrastructure projects and we have just announced the 2020 Proposed Budget with a […]
By Kenneth I. Moch More than 120,000 Americans will lose their battle to Alzheimer’s disease this year. This debilitating condition is the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death. Nationwide, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease every 65 seconds. Nearly 6 million Americans currently live with this devastating condition. By 2050, that number could skyrocket […]
OMBUDSMAN ALERT has followed the subject of this HOT CAR legislation in articles published in this column on August 9, 2018, July 4, 2019, September 12, 2019 and September 19, 2019 – as part of CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY WEEK. Since the details of this Act(H.R. 3593) have now been released as amended, OMBUDSMAN ALERT will […]
BY DIANE DIMOND A famous Greek myth recounts the tale of the diabolical King Sisyphus. He was punished for his many murderous actions by being forced to roll a huge boulder up a hill. No matter what method he used, each time Sisyphus neared the top of the hill, the boulder would crash back to […]
By County Executive Ed Day This week we announced the 2020 proposed Budget for Rockland County; to make the announcement we visited the Hi Tor Animal Care Center in Pomona. Two years ago, we pledged to construct a new facility on that property, and we are now making good on that promise. A society is […]
To the Editor, Almost 60 years ago, I was appointed to the newly created Orangetown Narcotics Council to help address the heroin crisis in Rockland County. 60 years later, we have an Opiate Crisis and it’s the same vis a vis addiction and death, but also very different . This time the threat to lives […]