By Rockland County Executive Ed Day As both sides continue to lobby and firm up positions on United Water New York’s proposed rate hike and the company’s plan to build a desalination plant in West Haverstraw, our County lawyers have quietly targeted a separate issue involving our local water supply. Separate, but just as important […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Michigan’s voter-approved ban on affirmative action was constitutional, voting 6-to-2 in favor of upholding the law. The decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action focused on the court’s authority to overrule the law, which 58 percent of Michigan voters approved in 2006. In […]
CNS NEWS Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said today that Americans need to stand up to “a deliberate plan by the president of the United States” to collapse the nation’s law enforcement system regarding illegal immigration. In a Senate speech, Sessions said: “Our law enforcement system is in a state of collapse, and it’s a deliberate […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE DAN CASTRICONE (R-TUXEDO) Tuxedo-Calling a recent decision by State Supreme Court Justice Francis Nicolai ‘short sighted, ill-advised and just plain wrong,’ NY Assembly candidate Dan Castricone today warned that local zoning and home rule will become a relic if the Judge’s decision is upheld. “The Judge basically invalidated the zoning […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative Chiaroscuro Foundation revealed New York has been inconsistent in its inspections of abortion providers, with some locations experiencing no oversight whatsoever in the past decade. The data revealed out of 25 providers, eight had not been inspected between 2000 and 2012. Five […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA As Congressional elections in November draw closer, House Candidate Chris Day is reporting steady progress in his campaign against incumbent Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey in New York’s 17th Congressional District, as he continues to drum up local support from Rockland and Westchester residents. Day explained to the Rockland County Times he had […]