GOP/Reform alliance creating new era in local politics BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The sea change in Rockland and Orange County politics continues, as in one short year’s time Republican Assemblyman Karl Brabenec (District 98 including portions of Orange County and the Town of Ramapo) has ditched the partial support of Monroe’s Kiryas Joel religious bloc vote […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Legislator Harriet D. Cornell (D-West Nyack) this week sent a letter to the Secretary of the New York State Public Service Commission asking the agency to direct Suez New York to formally abandon the Haverstraw Water Supply Project. A decision may be rendered when the PSC meets on Thursday, Dec. […]
PRESS RELEASE – The Rockland County Legislature voted tonight to override all 22 of County Executive Ed Day’s line-item vetoes. Legislators voted 13-3 to override the vetoes of 13 full-time-equivalent security positions. Legislators also voted 12-4 to override the vetoes of six county Finance Department positions. With the overrides, the Legislature’s amended version of the 2016 […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE Rockland County Executive Ed Day today used the line item veto provision of Rockland County’s Home Rule Charter to strike 22 of 37 amendments made by the Rockland County Legislature to the Administration’s 2016 Executive Budget. The vetoes include Legislative amendments that: Restore 13 Department of General Services security […]
Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester) joined pharmacists and health care advocates on Wednesday to urge Naloxone be made available over the counter, through a standing order issued by the State Commissioner of Health. It was recently announced that Naloxone will be made available over the counter without a prescription in New York City pharmacies. While Senator […]
BY MICHAEL VOLPE Several more litigants have stepped forward to complain about State Supreme Court Judge Victor Alfieri’s handling of their cases after an open letter written by Deb Goodman was published in October in the Rockland County Times. Several visits to Alfieri’s court room by the Rockland County Times turned up no evidence of […]