BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT OMBUDSMAN In the spirit of this holiday season, this Ombudsman has borrowed the first line of the song “Sidewalks Of New York” written way back in 1894 by James W. Blake and Charles E. Lawlor to address the more serious matter of the Rockland rail commuter who may travel on either […]
Rockland County Democrats and County Executive Ed Day continue to clash not only over policy but over basic outlook on fiscal reality. Day vetoed all but four technical amendments made to his budget by Democrats on the Legislature. The Democrats have 11 votes in hand (including Republican Douglas Jobson, Jr.), but require 12 votes to […]
Rockland County GOP Chairman Lawrence Garvey, one of the first county chairmen in New York State to formally endorse President-elect Donald Trump this spring, was amongst a coterie of GOP attorneys dispatched to Wisconsin and Michigan to oversee recount efforts demanded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Garvey answered several questions about the trip in […]
“Mayor de Blasio’s endorsement of Keith Ellison for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee is a slap in the face to the more than one million Jews who live in New York City. Congressman Ellison’s long history of anti-Semitic leanings and anti-Israel positions are disqualifying and should be of deep concern to all Americans. Despite […]
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 […]