Rockland County Times Commentary When the New York Comptroller’s list of most fiscally stressed local governments for the fiscal year 2013 came out in 2014, the Town of Ramapo was conspicuously absent after ranking as the number one most stressed town for the fiscal year ending 2012. Local sleuth for the Ramapo GOP Committee Bill […]
Jaffee, Zebrowski and Skoufis have not distanced themselves from Speaker Silver As the charges against New York Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver were laid out by US Attorney Preet Bharara, New York Democrats found themselves in a conundrum. The 2015 legislative session had just begun and Silver remained the unquestioned leader of the Assembly. […]
The man many have called the most powerful figure in New York politics over the past 20 years, longtime Speaker of the NY Assembly Sheldon Silver, has been arrested on corruption charges by the FBI. US Attorney for the Southern NY District Preet Bharara had commenced a major investigation of many of New York’s politicians […]
Occasionally embattled Rockland TRIPS bus vendor Richard Brega, principal of Brega Transportation, has seen his share of government pressure in the past year, most often from County Executive Ed Day’s office. The Board of Elections website indicates that recently County Legislature Chairman Alden Wolfe refunded Brega in the sum of $1,000. Wolfe has yet to explain the odd move. […]
BY RAQUEL OKYAY Gun rights advocates have asked Rochester District Court to end a state regulation they contend authorizes the state to secretly compile personal mental health information without cause to confiscate firearms in violation of the Second, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. “We made a motion for preliminary injunction to shut down the Integrated […]
County Executive Ed Day (R) “I am especially pleased that Governor Cuomo will use $1.2 billion of the state’s recent $5 billion bank settlement to support construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge and hold down Thruway tolls. As I have said repeatedly, our commuters and businesses simply cannot afford the burden of even-higher tolls. […]