BY MICHAEL RICONDA Spring Valley – Ultra-Orthodox students attending the United Talmudical Academy in Spring Valley gathered on July 10 in a large demonstration to protest recent changes to Israeli law removing armed service exemptions for yeshiva students. Elementary and middle school-aged students assembled in lines, holding signs and banners denouncing the state of Israel […]
One strategy employed by opponents of the Champlain Hudson Power Express that would dig trenches through the CSX rail right-of-way and other areas in Stony Point and Rockland County is dead for the time being, as Assemblyman James Skoufis told the Rockland County Times a bill to ban the annexation of land via eminent domain […]
Conservative Party opposition leader Sam Naemit has revealed to the Rockland County Times that Stephan F. Peters for Clarkstown Highway Superintendent will be running for the Conservative Party ticket. He joins Wayne Ballard (R) and Dennis Malone (D) in the race. If he wins the primary, he might play spoiler, as Superintendent Wayne Ballard had […]
Lawmakers make over economic proposal, shelve equality act BY KATHY KAHN For The Rockland Times Albany’s Legislature broke for the summer on June 20, leaving Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious business attraction program bruised but not battered and putting a gambling referendum on the state’s November ballot. “Tax Free New York” now “START-UP NY” The Legislature’s […]
PRESS RELEASE New City, NY (July 3, 2013) – Rockland County Legislator Ed Day (New City-Pomona) is sponsoring a resolution to call upon the State Assembly to pass Assembly Bill A.1443, that would phase out the Metropolitan Transit Authority payroll mobility tax in 2017 and related Assembly Bill A.7775 that would immediately exempt community colleges […]