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 […]
BY KATHY KAHN The Rockland Legislature held its final public hearing on the proposed 2017 county budget Tuesday night before delving into a two-hour discussion of why funding was restored to dozens of public benefit corporations and 50 vacant county positions the Executive branch had proposed to eliminate were added back. Democrats eliminated a proposed […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT Following the Rockland County Times two Ombudsman Alert columns supporting the construction of the “Gateway Tunnel Project” and this column’s campaign to encourage our elected officials to follow the lead of the bipartisan group of New Jersey State senators urging President-Elect Trump to make this project a priority, local officials have […]
ASSEMBLYWOMAN ELLEN JAFFEE PRESS RELEASE – “I am extremely disappointed that the Governor vetoed a bill that is consistent with his stated goal of making local government function more efficiently. My bill would result in more efficient and transparent tax collection and provide a direct savings to taxpayers. The bill would not lead to any […]