PRESS RELEASE – Supervisor George Hoehmann and the Town Board announce two public hearings for establishing the ward district boundary lines within the Town of Clarkstown. The hearings will be during the January 31 and March 7 Town Board meetings at Clarkstown Town Hall, 10 Maple Ave., New City, at 7:30 p.m. Public comment will be an integral part […]
OP-ED BY TOM DEPRISCO Much has been written recently regarding fears that Orangetown residents have involving the potential for overdevelopment which has been occurring for years in Ramapo. Residents are concerned with the ever-increasing growth in the ultra orthodox jewish communities within Ramapo and how this population explosion could affect Orangetown. These concerns have led […]
PRESS RELEASE – To address the lateness of STAR rebate checks owed to New York homeowners, Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) will introduce a bill to speed up and improve the rebate check process. Carlucci’s legislation adds a 5 percent fee to rebate checks issued after October 30 and an additional monthly fee for every month […]
New Legislation will Authorize More Locations to Research, Grow and Process Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity Governor to Host New York’s First-Ever Industrial Hemp Summit in the Southern Tier Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced new actions to grow New York’s burgeoning industrial hemp industry. Building on the success of the State’s Industrial Hemp Agricultural […]
BY KATHY KAHN Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pitching the Excelsior Scholarship program to state lawmakers, partnering with former Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) as the pair debuted the free tuition program on January 4. The cost to implement to the program is calculated to be $163 million per year by 2019. Nearly 1 million college-bound […]
PRESS RELEASE- New York state government has become addicted to more than $4 billion in taxes and surcharges that drive up healthcare costs, according to a new report from the Empire Center for Public Policy. The report, “Hooked on HCRA,” examines the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA), which was adopted by the state Legislature in […]