BY AARON MOELLER Red flags mean nothing if you don’t take the time to look at them. Now that the initial shock has worn off, I am really going to miss Daniel Friedman. This past year was grotesquely overlamented in the media, but I thought, being the optimist I am, it wasn’t all that terrible. […]
BY TOM BASILE With the Obama Administration’s parting slap at Israel in the United Nations Security Council, calls for de-funding the world body in retaliation have again jumped to page one. The anti-Israel resolution in the waning days of the administration was the capstone of the 44th President’s unbending love affair with the UN, but he […]
NY Supreme Court Justice Hon. Alan D. Scheinkman dismissed Former Rockland County Board of Elections Commissioner Lou Babcock’s suit seeking court intervention on his ouster as BOE commissioner. Babcock claimed the Republican Party inappropriately removed him via dictate of the Executive Committee instead of allowing the full Republican Committee to vote. Hon. Scheinkman said the […]
BY SUPERVISOR GEORGE HOEHMANN Everyone agrees that killing a police officer is so abhorrent that it warrants the toughest penalties allowed by our criminal justice system — including the death penalty. Everyone, it seems, except for Governor Cuomo. As supervisor of Clarkstown, the town where the Brinks robbery and murders took place, I am outraged over […]
At Wednesday’s board meeting Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and the town board voted Councilman Yitzchok Ullman as deputy supervisor, ending Councilman Patrick Withers two-year stint in the position. Withers has butted heads with St. Lawrence at times. He stood alongside former Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman, who passed away in an apparent suicide Friday, in calling […]