By Joe Kuhn Rockland County Legislator Harriet Cornell is unhappy with the New York State Thruway Department. In a letter submitted to the department, Cornell, who also serves as the Chairwoman of the Rockland County Legislatures Special Committee on Transit, voiced her concerns that their proposed toll increase for the Mario Cuomo Bridge will disproportionality […]
By: Keith S. Shikowitz Debates between political candidates running for office go far back in American History. The most famous of these debates is still the Lincoln – Douglas Debates of 1858. We have had Presidential debates since the 1960 Kennedy – Nixon Debates. On October 13, 2020 five candidates (Republican Maureen McArdle Schulman, SAM […]
By Kathy Kahn Police Departments across New York State are working to comply with an Executive Order issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo in June, 2020: The New York State Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative. Letters went out to 500 jurisdictions with police departments across the state explaining the reasoning for the formation of the Collaboratives. […]
By: Joe Kuhn County Executive Ed Day has promised stricter enforcement of new state mandates intended to prevent the spread of COVID 19. On Tuesday night the Executive spoke with Governor Cuomo over the phone and concurred that “a true lack of enforcement and support of the governor’s orders” is occurring in both the […]
Cuomo’s enforcement of virus restrictions is met with anger, hostility in Orthodox communities By Kathy Kahn Six months ago–April 4, 2020, to be exact– County Executive Ed Day made an impassioned plea to Albany to create a “containment” zone in the Town of Ramapo and other CoV-19 “hot spots” in Rockland, similar to the […]
Months of speculation and concern over who was negotiating to purchase Nyack College’s sprawling campus overlooking the Hudson were answered mid-Summer: the former Christian college and its scenic campus, a landmark on the banks of the Hudson for 120 years, was purchased for a fire-sale price of approximately $44 million by Yeshiva Viznitz, based in […]