TAXPAYER GROUP LANDS MARQUEE GUEST SPEAKER FOR NEXT WEEK

TAXPAYER GROUP LANDS MARQUEE GUEST SPEAKER FOR NEXT WEEK

EJ McMahon, director of the Manhattan Institute, and noted columnist in many major newspapers, will be the guest speaker at next month’s meeting of the Clarkstown Taxpayers group. The Taxpayers will be handing out a copy of the town’s overtime report. so residents can learn which town employees make over $30,000 in overtime. The meeting […]

Where’s the Mayor’s Cash?

Where’s the Mayor’s Cash?

COMMENTARY BY DYLAN SKRILOFF   Mayor Noramie Jasmin may not be a member of the 1 percent, but she is a member of the 5 percent or so, and as such it is amazing that she claimed poverty at her arraignment on Tuesday, April 2 in White Plains. Mayor Jasmin, who has not stepped down […]

ED DAY SAYS CORRUPT POLITICOS SHOULD LOSE STATE PENSIONS

PRESS RELEASE FROM LEGISLATOR AND COUNTY EXECUTIVE CANDIDATE ED DAY   Rockland County Legislator Ed Day is sponsoring two resolutions that, if passed, would strip elected officials of pension and retirement benefits when an official is convicted of any felony offense against public administration while holding elective office. “Enough is enough. We need to take bold and aggressive action […]

Vanderhoef and Cornell to Announce Appointment of Rockland’s Poet Laureate

Vanderhoef and Cornell to Announce Appointment of Rockland’s Poet Laureate

(NEW CITY, NY) Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef and County Legislature Chairwoman Harriet Cornell will hold a press conference to announce the reappointment of Dan Masterson as Poet Laureate of Rockland County and the posthumous appointments of revered Rockland poets, Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982) and her husband Horace Gregory (1898-1982) as honorary Poets Laureate. Dan […]

LaCorte Says Deficit Bond Not the Way to Go

BY DAGAN LACORTE, Suffern mayor and candidate for county executive Property taxpayers are stretched to the max by a 100 percent increase in property taxes imposed by the Rockland Legislature and Executive over the past few years. The current proposal to radically increase the county’s debt with a deficit bond will only further strain the […]