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 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Residents Demand State to Rescind Chicken Slaughterhouse Grant Zebrowski sends new letter with thousands of residents and local elected officials to Empire State Development Assemblyman Zebrowski sent a letter this week to the Empire State Development Board of Directors asking that they take immediate action to rescind the $1.6 […]
I have numerous concerns about the proposed Heritage Park Poultry Plant, which is intended to replace the former facility that was shut down by federal prosecutors because of a number of violations. I wholeheartedly supported the decision to close that facility, which put the public’s health and safety at risk. I have had numerous discussions […]
Brooklyn, New York actor and philanthropist Tony Danza was honored this week by the New York State Senate at Italian American Day in Albany. Pictured here is Senator David Carlucci with Danza.
In an enormous political upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Republican primary in Virginia’s seventh congressional district Tuesday night to Dave Brat, an economics and ethics professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, and political unknown. According to the Associated Press, with 86.1 percent of precincts reporting Brat won with 55.8 percent of […]