By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Crafting my Proposed Budget for 2015 has been a challenge, to say the least. The grueling process has been filled with hours of number-crunching, spirited debate and difficult decisions. As I’ve said repeatedly, it’s my job to make the tough choices that affect the 320,000 residents of Rockland County. […]
BY ALEXANDRA KEZEK Sharyl Attkisson-former CBS reporter-has made explosive allegations agains the US government with the release of her book “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington.” In the book, Attkisson reveals that she has been under surveillance while looking into scandals in the Obama Administration. […]
Some overzealous supporters of Congresswoman Nita Lowey put up posters calling Chris Day “the number one Jew hater” in Rockland. Day’s wife and child are both Jewish and he took great offense to the slur, which Lowey attempted to distance herself from. In the end Lowey defeated Day 56 – 44 percent.
It was another momentous Election Day in the United States as the Republican Party swept to power in the US Senate, taking at least seven new seats and as many as 10 depending on the final results of Alaska and Virginia, which are still too close to call, and Louisiana, where there will be a […]
Running a hard, honest village trustee campaign usually costs less than $5,000. But having your opponents send out election artwork with a photo of the wrong village on it just before Election Day? That’s priceless. Incumbent candidates for Village of Suffern trustee Jo Corrigan (D) and Jack Meehan (D) sent out artwork featuring the Village of […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Tomorrow, voters will cast their ballots in what might prove to be a watershed year for New York Republicans. Not only is a Democratic governor with highly controversial policies up for re-election, but Republicans at both the state and federal levels are attempting to seize on a dip in Democratic popularity to […]