Statement from Assembly candidate Dan Castricone: The announcement by Novartis that it will be closing its Rockland County plant in Suffern is yet another wakeup call to New York. We are now losing nearly 300 good paying New York jobs. And while the company partially attributes the decision to the loss of exclusivity of the drug […]
Ignoring the current trend in Albany of leaving vacated Assembly seats open until this year’s November election, Rockland County Legislature Chairman Alden H. Wolfe has urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to direct a special election be held for State Assembly District 98 to fill the seat formerly held by Annie Rabbitt, who stepped down in early […]
$137 Billion, 1.7 percent over last year BY KATHY KAHN Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday unveiled his proposed 2014-2015 budget, which contains, among many other proposals, a property tax freeze for homeowners and a call to the over 1,000 towns and villages to consolidate services to save taxpayer dollars. Cuomo initially introduced the new budget […]
Approximately 2 percent of Wyoming’s population reside in the small city of Riverton in the heart of the state. That’s about 10.5K residents. Now, if a mandate of the Environment Protection Agency goes forward, those residents, along with others within a 1 million acre area, will officially be living on an Indian reservation. In a […]
At the monthly meeting of the Orange County Democratic Committee, Krystal Serrano officially announced her candidacy for the 98th Assembly District seat vacated by Annie Rabbitt when she was inaugurated as Orange County clerk. Serrano has a background in economic development, job creation, and managed healthcare.
BY CHERYL SLAVIN Did the Department of Justice dictate last week that educators base discipline on racial quotas, as Foxnews and other outlets suggested, or didn’t they? As supporters of the controversial memo would have it, in an effort to reduce drop-out rates, recidivism and long-term legal problems experienced disproportionately by minority students nationwide, the […]