To The Editor; In the heat of the primary campaign season, it’s easy for the facts to get drowned out by the noise of political finger-pointing and recycled attacks. We see it constantly: candidates, pulling a single corporate name out of thin air like the recent baseless attempts to link Cait Conley to defense contractor, […]
Last Friday at RCC, President Donald J. Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to Welles Crowther, which was accepted on his behalf by his mother Allison Crowther. The award was a complete surprise, and presented on the anniversary of Crowther’s story breaking with the New York Times on Memorial Day, 2002. The Presidential Medal […]
Last Friday, I had the career-expanding opportunity to see the president in person as a member of the press, thanks to the Rockland County Times. As a reporter who graduated college last year with a degree in journalism, I can tell you that this was the equivalent of my own personal Superbowl. The frenzy started […]
For the first time since Gerald Ford’s visit to the Rockland County Courthouse in 1976, a sitting U.S. president has visited Rockland County. Friday, May 23rd, saw current president Donald Trump hold a rally in Rockland County at the RCC fieldhouse in Ramapo. Doors to the event opened at 12:00, with thousands of people from […]
Since 2024, the Champlain Hudson Power Express has been installing cables from Lake Champlain to bring hydroelectric power to New York City. The construction, which has been ongoing along Route 9W, has wreaked havoc on small businesses in Stony Point, Haverstraw, and Congers. On May 5th, Congressman Lawler, in conjunction with the North Rockland Chamber […]
Why are my candidates still parading around its corpse? On Thursday, April 9th, I sat down with almost 800 people, both in person and on zoom, to watch the debate between three Democrat primary candidates for NY-17. The debate covered a wide range of issues, but something stuck out to me when the candidates were […]