The House voted Thursday to make permanent a generous tax break that makes it easier for small businesses to buy new equipment and improve their property, part of an election-year showdown over a series of expired tax breaks worth billions. The tax break allows business owners to more quickly write off the costs of computers, […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF PHOTOS BY PETER BRUNWASSER If you visit the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Burns at 32 Sephar Lane in Chestnut Ridge on any given day chances are you will hear a racket of Biblical proportions. The noise comes from his neighbor Steven Slackman, owner of Steve’s Lawns, a popular Rockland County landscaping […]
How a social media post became a public spat over the deficit premium and the first ideological battle of the Ed Day-era in county government BY MICHAEL RICONDA Questions over an $11 million deficit premium earned from the sale of deficit financing bonds have provoked some contentiousness between County Executive Ed Day (R) and Legislator […]
BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY As my Administration moves toward the second half of 2014, I’m taking a few moments this week to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished during our first six months. My team and I have spent each day focusing on common sense, intelligent solutions to the County’s challenges. Our efforts […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – In an occasionally heated session, the County Legislature’s Budget & Finance Committee declined to approve a repeal of the county’s four percent residential energy tax on June 10. Though bipartisan support initially appeared to push the bill into the realm of possibility, the Budget & Finance Committee was split […]
LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Assemblymembers Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) and Kenneth Zebrowski (D-New City) both applaud the announcement by Governor Cuomo that he supports the efforts of the State Education Department to install attorney Hank Greenberg as the fiscal monitor for the East Ramapo Central School District. The announcement comes after years of meetings, conversations and requests […]