BY JENNA HUTCHINS This week’s Stony Point Town Board meeting started in a unique way and featured many awards and speeches. Instead of beginning the meeting with the pledge of allegiance, the packed room watched a four-minute video clip of Red Skelton’s version of the pledge. In it he details exactly what each word of […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE The Rockland County Legislature has voted 9-8 to adopt an amended 2016 County Budget that sets aside funding for deficit reduction and restores key jobs, among other important changes. “This has been the most challenging budget process I’ve experienced in my time as a County Legislator,” said Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe […]
BY CHRISTIAN HALSTEAD MAHWAH- The town council of Mahway, NJ unanimously decided at a board meeting December 3 to attempt to regulate pipelines passing through its township. This decision was spurred by the Pilgrim Pipeline’s seemingly imminent construction. The Pilgrim Pipeline, a proposed set of two oil pipelines to run from Albany to the Bayway […]
Reports by the Journal News of a 10 percent county tax increase are presumptuous in light of the fact County Executive Ed Day still has vetoes up his sleeve and the County Legislature only narrowly passed their amendments to Day’s budget, which would have raised taxes only about 5 percent. Day can veto the entirety […]
Senator David Carlucci: “It puts a stain on the whole political process and erodes trust….We need to ban outside income for state lawmakers to get rid of those conflicts. This is the best chance for limiting and trying to root out pay to play culture.” Links to Senator Carlucci’s bills to ban outside income and […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Ed Day’s high approval ratings (according to internal polls), Rockland County’s improved fiscal status and Day’s success transforming the political landscape of the formerly Dem-dominated County of Rockland have not gone unnoticed amongst Republican leaders in Albany. In fact, sources close to the state GOP leadership have told the Rockland County Times that […]