Friends, Last night we got the amazing news – after all of our hard work, time, sweat, and tears, we brought home a victory for this great county! It was a hard fought campaign, and you all gave so much of yourselves towards it. I was blown away by the support on the campaign trail, […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA After a long and often contentious election season, the unofficial final tallies have been compiled for town, village, and county races, showing County Legislator Ed Day ahead and victorious in the race for County Executive against former Spring Valley Justice David Fried and big name incumbents largely retaining their positions. With all […]
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. […]