PRESS STATEMENT FROM ELLEN JAFFEE “I applaud State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia for the appointment of Charles Szuberla as East Ramapo Central School District Monitor. In making this appointment the Commissioner and (SED) recognizes and is actively responding to the critical and positive role the Monitors played on the ground during the 2015-16 school […]
PRESS RELEASE Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – East Fishkill) is calling on the Arlington Fire District Board of Commissioners to rescind their order to remove American flags flying from the back of the district’s fire trucks. “When I was on the front lines in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the first time […]
PRESS RELEASE Senator David Carlucci, Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee and Orangetown Deputy Supervisor Allan Ryff, Orangetown Town Clerk Charlotte Madigan, and CUPON leadership Hilda Moscovik and Mike Miller called upon the Department of State (DOS) to hold a public hearing to address the aggressive solicitation that has been occurring in Rockland County, however the state has not given […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYWOMAN ELLEN JAFFE (Pearl River, NY) Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) on Wednesday sent a letter and submitted her comments to the Coast Guard on the Proposed Rulemaking: Anchorage Grounds, Hudson River; Yonkers, NY to Kingston, NY. Docket Number USCG–2016–0132. In her letter and comments Jaffee said, “I am writing on behalf of the […]
By: Legislator Harriet D. Cornell (D-West Nyack) We were all shocked and taken aback when we first learned that Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan was suspended from duty and was facing disciplinary charges. How, we wondered, could a decorated Police Chief with almost 30 years of service to Clarkstown alone, suddenly be removed from his […]
New York state’s Medicaid system made as much as $12.1 million in inappropriate payments during 2015, including $2.3 million for dead patients and millions more for recipients who had been dropped from long term care coverage, according to an audit released Tuesday by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. By the end of audit fieldwork, about […]