By Supervisor George Hoehmann Zukor Park in New City is one of our most popular parks in the Town of Clarkstown. The baseball fields are home of the New City Little League, parents take their children to play on our state-of-the-art playground, and the basketball courts are always packed with residents playing pick-up games. The old […]
BY SENATOR DAVID CARLUCCI It has always been my mission to help seniors by making sure they are aware of services and programs, which could improve their quality of life. This is why I annually work with Rockland Community College to host a Senior Fair at the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse in Suffern. This year marks our 7th […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Ombudsman …..BREAKING NEWS FROM MIT….. Your humble author of the Ombudsman Alert, who taught Mathematics at MIT during 1957-60, was honored to also be a junior member of a research team in the emerging science of Artificial Intelligence established in those years by MIT Professors John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, currently […]
BY MICHAEL STUMO After the US Trade Representative recently announced tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, I was asked whether I would admit that the US is now in a trade war. China started the trade war in 1994 with currency devaluation and state-directed capitalism. Then got better at it. 16% growth per […]
By County Executive Day To quote the AC/DC song of the same name, “I’ve been too long I’m glad to be back.” For the first time since 2006, Rockland has an unassigned positive fund balance in its general fund (a surplus). Almost $6.3 million to be exact. While that may not sound like a whole […]
To the Editor, The political trend in The United States is to elect the un-politician. How C. Scott Vanderhoef, a politician with a questionable success rate, believes he deserves another chance at elected office is beyond me. While he held the county executive position, his budgets were prepared in crayon and year after year he grossly over-estimated […]