COMMENTARY BY CHRIS DAY GOP Candidate for the 17th Congressional District Tuesday’s annexation of Crimea is an unacceptable example of an authoritarian using raw force to expand his power. It’s a simple concept: no free and fair elections regarding whether to be annexed by a neighbor can be held in an area that was just […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY – County Finance Commissioner Stephen DeGroat presented encouraging news to the legislature last Tuesday, March 11, relating that the credit outlook and sale of the county’s $96 million in deficit financing bonds looked promising enough to set the county on a more even fiscal footing. According to DeGroat, county finances […]
DEC Unveils Proposal to Remediate Contaminated Site in Hillburn LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe recently presented comments at a public meeting held by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) regarding its proposal to remediate highly toxic paint sludge dumped in Hillburn more than 30 years ago by the Ford […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA David Fried, who served as a village justice for Spring Valley before running as the Democratic candidate for county executive in 2013, has been keeping busy with his law practice since the election. This week he announced he has also made an agreement with a prominent Manhattan law firm. Koehler & Isaacs […]
NEW CITY – In a reversal of a controversial decision by Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme, State Judge Gerald Loehr struck down the mayor’s dismissal of Village Trustee Vilair Fonvil on Monday. The decision comes two weeks after Fonvil and his allies on the board, Trustees Emilia White and Asher Grossman, successfully filed a restraining […]
Deficit Bond Will Help Improve County’s Financial Condition By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Our continuing efforts to put the County’s fiscal house back in order got a major boost this month with the news of a low interest rate on our $96 million deficit financing bond. One of the key components of our financial […]