Lacorte, Leon booted from Democratic Primary race for County Executive (for now)

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Suffern – Following a County Board of Elections ruling, county executive candidates Dagan Lacorte and Vladimir Leon have been removed from the Democratic primaries for having an insufficient number of signatures for their campaigns. The rulings are both being appealed. The board ruled on the night of Thursday, July 25 that over […]

READER TAKES LOOK AT THE SPARACO FINANCIAL FILING

Mr. Skriloff, Knowing your reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism, and having seen your initial reporting on Legislator Sparaco’s recent fundraiser, I thought you might appreciate and find some substantially newsworthy items from his recent filing. 1) Someone was blowing smoke up your paper’s proverbial rear with the “$25,000 fundraiser” line. His campaign filings reveal that […]

Automatic License Plate Readers

BY MATTHEW SHI According to a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), police departments across the United States have adopted the use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The police departments use these ALPRs to store information about people’s movements and locations in databases without the people’s knowledge. The report revealed that […]

Sparaco Reveals More Tapes; Context Does Not Change

BY MARC MOSS On Tuesday night Marc Moss and Dylan Skriloff of the Rockland County Times were shown several hours of further footage from County Legislator Frank Sparaco’s tape-recorded conversations with Councilman Frank Borelli, Highway superintendent candidate Dennis Malone and a Democratic Party attorney. The tapes made headlines last week as they apparently showed a […]

PETITION SEASON ALMOST OVER POLITICIANS

But not before several candidates get bounced due to technical blunders! In Spring Valley, four candidates have been knocked out of the mayor’s race due to petition challenges: Joseph Gross, Bernard Charles, Anthony Leon and Miguelino Joseph. Leon and Gross have filed motions to defend their petitions in court, but rival candidate Daniel Friedman said […]

FEINSTEIN WINS SPYING AWARD

The Constitutional Rights Association announced Wednesday that it has bestowed its Honecker Dunce Award, to Senator Diane Feinstein of California and Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan for their work in furthering domestic spying and mass surveillance. The Honecker Dunce Award is the most prestigious award that the Association can bestow on an elected official for […]