PRESS RELEASE FROM LEG. ILAN SCHOENBERGER A resolution sponsored by Rockland County Legislator Ilan Schoenberger will call upon the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to expedite the release of Advisory Base Flood Elevations (ABFEs) for Rockland County that will provide up-to-date information that Rockland property owners and municipalities can utilize to support and formulate reconstruction plans and efforts in light […]
Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb’s (R,C,I-Canandaigua) Comments on Final 2013-14 State Budget: I think the best way to summarize the proposed 2013-14 Budget is, it is a budget that contains on-target choices for New Yorkers across the state including increases to education which will help our community colleges for example. Certainly there are off-target choices that were negotiated […]
Statement on Operations and Capital Projects Budget Bills from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill) State Operations Budget Bill Health Exchanges The billÂ’s New York Health Insurance Exchange will cost taxpayers $190 million to voluntarily comply with ObamaCare. WeÂ’re not going to cut healthcare costs with that kind of bloated bureaucracy. It is a DMV […]
The Rockland County Times has learned that freshman Assemblyman James Skoufis (D-Stony Point, Orange County) was one of only a handful of Assembly Democrats to vote against Governor Cuomo’s NY SAFE gun control act. Skoufis did not bow to political pressure at midnight and sign the bill, and instead chose to vote his conscience. This […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM SENATOR CARLUCCI Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester), chairman of the Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, announced that prescriber prevails protections have been restored for atypical antipsychotic drugs and drug classes within Medicaid fee for services in the final Health Budget. In addition, it has been restored for eight additional drug classes, […]
Quinn’s bid for Mayor may be weaker than it appears BY ADAM LOMBARDI, QUEENS-POLITICS.COM By now you’ve all read the scathing article in the New York Times regarding Christine Quinn’s temper issue. It must be serious when the New York Times runs a full length story on how she treats her colleagues and constituents. Anyway, the story […]
