State tax collections through July were $479.5 million lower than collections for the same period last year, primarily reflecting lower Personal Income Tax (PIT) collections from April and May. Still, the state is in a relatively good financial position after collecting more than $3 billion from financial settlements since the state budget was enacted, according […]
New York State Supreme Court Justice Alfred J. Weiner, retired, has been appointed by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo as a member of the New York State Law Revision Commission. Justice Weiner, a resident of Rockland County, retired as a Justice of the Supreme Court, after serving more than forty years on the bench, is Of […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day There’s a lot of talk this summer about the performance of our Transport of Rockland (TOR) public bus system. Not all of it’s positive. Complaints of lengthy delays, buses that don’t show up and poor communication have flooded the County. I have personally received several emails in which passengers […]
Ed Day Calls Out Frank Sparaco All: It is with great reluctance that I message you today, but events unfolding threaten both the well being of our party and the recovery of our county that has now started under my new administration. Legislator Frank Sparaco, after being formally challenged and cited by the Clarkstown committee […]
BY MARC MOSS A long-held rivalry between fellow Clarkstown Republicans Ed Day, the current Rockland County executive, and Frank Sparaco, a Rockland legislator, Clarkstown town employee and influential political organizer within party circles, has turned into a general conflagration and power struggle within the Republican Party. The result of the power struggle may have an […]
Sources say St. Lawrence will not challenge ward referendum Rumor in Ramapo is that Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence has no intention to challenge Bob Romanowski and Michael Parietti’s legal victory validating their call for a referendum on ward voting for the town council. Currently five council members-four councilman and the supervisor-are voted on by the […]