Preserve Ramapo Chairman Bob Rhodes confirmed to the Rockland County Times that not only has Ed Day received the advocacy group’s endorsement, his name will appear on their ballot line in the Town of Ramapo during the 2013 general election. Day’s appearance on the Preserve Ramapo line figures to earn him hundreds of votes from […]
Statement from Assemblyman James Skoufis (D): “The combined destructive forces of Hurricane Irene and Topical Storm Lee have left scars in Orange and Rockland Counties that can still be seen today. Property owners are still burdened by the financial realities and difficulties of the rebuilding process. By covering the 25 percent of non-federal property buyout […]
Official Preserve Ramapo endorsement: Robert I. Rhodes, Ph.D., chairman, Preserve Ramapo Rockland is in terrible trouble. I want to take a look at the reasons why this is so and then I want to explain why Preserve Ramapo is supporting Republican Ed Day for Rockland County executive. Whether one looks at our current Republican county […]
Politics! A word you hear quite often: in every segment of life, work, school, and in the home. In fact, education probably has more politics than any level of government, and how many times does a decision of where to eat on Saturday night or what movie to attend come down to a family vote […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – In a productive night for county government, the Rockland Legislature approved a number of major resolutions including a request that the New York Legislature allow a bonding and refinancing of county debt and a new program to encourage voluntary resignations from county positions to save money. The request for […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – The Joint Legislative-Executive Task Force met on May 6 to review progress made on the 2013 budget during the first quarter of the year and emerging fiscal issues, but reported no major obstacles. The discussion, which is part of a larger program to keep a running dialogue between the […]