BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY It would have been so easy to return to the Legislature a 2017 budget unchanged – with all of their many amendments and the promise of a 50 cent per month tax cut. But Rockland residents elected me to do the right thing, which is not necessarily the easy […]
Your Tax Cut Is In Jeopardy – Save It! By Legislator Toney Earl (D – Hillcrest) Majority Leader Rockland County Legislature When the Rockland County Legislature approved the 2017 budget with a tax cut for Rockland’s long-suffering property taxpayers, few could have envisioned the political grandstanding that followed from politicians AGAINST giving you a tax […]
BY TOM FITTON Over the years, Judicial Watch has called out many White House conflicts of interest. We fought in court against President Bill Clinton’s taking money to pay his legal bills through a legal-defense fund. During the George W. Bush administration, we questioned the propriety of his father, President George H.W. Bush, working for […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM BILL WEBER, FORMER TOWN COUNCIL CANDIDATE The Ramapo Town Board unanimously adopted the 2017 budget on November 19. I requested a copy of that budget via a FOIL request on November 21, but the town denied my FOIL request by not responding within the prescribed 5-day timeframe. Therefore, I had to appeal the request […]
PRESS RELEASE – East Ramapo parents, students, and taxpayers have agreed to resolve their lawsuit after the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in a split decision that students did not suffer a direct enough injury to sue and must be dismissed from the case. Plaintiffs vehemently disagree with this decision. Although […]
BY BETSY MCCAUGHEY Last week, Veterans Affairs got caught covering up the quality ratings of its 146 medical centers. VA Secretary Robert McDonald insists. “No VA medical facility is bad or failing.” Really? Not even a hospital that earns only one star out of five? McDonald denies he’s hiding anything. But he and other VA […]