To the Editor, During a 30-year period, as a social studies teacher at North Rockland High School and a part-time adjunct instructor at various local colleges, I taught my students to accept their responsibility to help enrich their community through participation in bettering it. Voting is an avenue of achieving competent leadership. It requires doing […]
ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Don’t let Election Day (Tuesday, November 5) fly under the radar this year. Come January, Rockland County will swear in a new county executive for the first time in 20 years. Unfortunately, the current executive C. Scott Vanderhoef leaves behind a county with a weak bond rating, a deficit of over $100 […]
NY POST ENDORSEMENT When voters in heavily Democratic Westchester traded in their longtime Democratic county executive for a Republican in 2009, they sent a clear message: Someone do something about our taxes! Voters who are still worried about taxes will re-elect Rob Astorino on Tuesday. Let’s face it: Few New York pols can boast […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Spring Valley – Allan Thompson, a longtime Rockland resident and former mayor of Spring Valley, is hoping to make a comeback in this year’s crowded campaign for the mayor of Spring Valley, running on a platform which seeks cooperative, urgent and effective solutions to the village’s stagnant financial state and corruption troubles. […]
BY RAQUEL OKYAY Distinguished retired police officer who is running for Stony Point town council 2013, Jim Monaghan, said he is ready and able to bring a new and productive perspective into town politics. “I am not a politician; I am a hard-working, honest, family-man who wants to work tirelessly for the residents of Stony […]
BY RAQUEL OKYAY Harbor Heights judge and soccer-mom, who is seeking a seat on the New York State Supreme Court, advocates for meaningful reform, fairness and accountability in the state’s judicial body. “I can personally continue to contribute through this higher position; and can further my public service,” said Judge Christie L. Derrico of the […]