NY STATE OF POLITICS Republican Sen. Bill Larkin announced he would run for re-election to the seat he has held since 1990 in what could be a crucial battleground district for control of the chamber. “Of all the professions I’ve had, being a public servant has had a very special meaning for me over the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Thank goodness there have been no headline-grabbing mass shootings in America recently. I was thinking about that this week after reading about the 17th anniversary of the Columbine massacre. On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot dead 12 of their fellow students and one teacher and injured many others […]
The Latino National Republican Coalition of Rockland County made national headlines earlier this month when the group officially endorsed GOPer Donald J. Trump for president. As a result of the publicity, WABC’s morning show Good Morning America invited a delegation of LNRC members and supporters to a “town hall” meeting in which GOP candidate Senator Ted Cruz […]
Colin J. Schmitt, candidate for the 99th Assembly District, last week called for the $670 million in mortgage settlement funds set to be received by the State of New York to be utilized to benefit New York State students. Colin Schmitt is specifically calling for the funds to be used to 1) Provide relief to […]
VIETNAM I actually started writing this to let folks know that there’s an event at the Congers Railway Station on May 3, 2016 at 5 p.m. Sean Magee, a local vet, has been working on this program called, “Carry the Load”, which helps us to remember the significance of Memorial Day. BY JERRY DONNELLAN Director, Veterans Service Agency, […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Even now, nearly 20 years later, I can still picture the two tiny bodies huddled in a closet where the toddlershad taken refuge to escape flamesengulfing the locked room. It was 1998 and I was a New York Police Department detective commander in the 47th precinct in the Bronx. […]