AG PRESS RELEASE NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman Wednesday announced a settlement with Apple Inc. arising out of Apple’s participation in a price-fixing conspiracy that a federal court in New York found raised the prices of E-books sold to consumers in New York and throughout the country. The settlement agreement, which must […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day While most of us were sleeping last week, Rockland County’s dedicated first responders crawled through twisted metal, thick brush and pitch black to rescue a trucker from his wrecked tractor trailer. The 18-wheeler crashed through a metal guardrail and careened down an 80-foot embankment, ultimately coming to rest about […]
Legislative Press Release from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R – Fishkill) Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill) is charging SUNY Albany and Governor Cuomo with flagrant pay-to-play cronyism as part of the START-UP NY program. The school chose two major university donors, one of them a SUNY Albany Foundation board member, as the winners […]
Rockland County sales tax collections have increased 3.4 percent in the second quarter and 6.41 percent in the first six months of 2014 versus last year. According to a recent quarterly cash flow report issued for the entire state, between April and June 2014 Rockland County collected $48,608,624 vs. 2013, when the county collected $47,009,562 […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN New York State’s Tappan Zee project got a financial boost Wednesday afternoon when three voting members of the Public Authorities Control Board said ‘yes’ to its request for half of the $511 million originally intended for statewide clean water projects like sewage treatment. Within less than 45 minutes, Budget Director Bob Megna, Assembly Speaker […]
WASHINGTON – New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s wedding last month had it all — celebrities, fireworks and even a small drone used to shoot a spectacular wedding video. But the Federal Aviation Administration prohibits the commercial use of drones like the miniature helicopter that gathered the breathtaking aerial footage of Maloney’s June 21 wedding […]