By Rockland County Executive Ed Day This Independence Day, Americans will celebrate the birth of the United States of America. We are blessed to live in a nation like no other, a nation of liberty and freedom. One of the most remarkable traits of our great country is the opportunity that Americans have to live […]
BY CAROL MCILMURRAY NEW CITY- Spring Valley Trustee Vilair Fonvil successfully filed an emergency order Thursday to stop the village of Spring Valley from paying $114,280 to the Martin Luther King Jr. center in an alleged bad day camp deal set to rip off taxpayers. The emergency stop payment order was issued to Spring Valley […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day You can’t make this up. For years, the County of Rockland would routinely conduct business with individuals or entities that owed property taxes. On its face, it’s absurd to pay thousands of dollars to a vendor for services or products when they are in arrears – solely based on […]
After a career in law enforcement that saw him attain the rank of lieutenant in the Orangetown PD and a lifetime exposed to his father’s own political career, Michael Moroney has decided to throw his hat into the arena. Moroney takes the place of former assumed GOP candidate Walter Wettje, who had come within two votes of […]
The Appellate Division of New York Supreme Court this week overturned Supreme Court Judge Margaret Garvey’s ruling last fall that the ballots from the Sept. 30, 2014 special election on ward voting in the Town of Ramapo should be thrown out and a new election ordered. Garvey had determined that the town failed to provide […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day The Office of the New York State Comptroller last week made public the findings of an audit of Rockland County’s Department of Social Services. The review of DSS operations from January 1, 2013 to last August highlighted several areas quality and efficiency, but also recommended substantive changes to improve […]