Rockland’s most powerful felon—the man who brokered the pardon of the New Square Four—is making his presence felt more and more (and more) BY DYLAN SKRILOFF A decade after doing time in federal prison on corruption charges, nobody can deny former Rockland County Democratic Chairman Paul Adler is all-the-way back. While he never completely lost […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The New York State Assembly passed a two year extension to an already existing moratorium on hydraulic fracturing on March 7, a move which has elicited strong feelings on both sides of the divisive debate and throws the fate of the practice into question. The measure aims to prevent the extraction of […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – In a unanimous decision, the county legislature’s budget & finance committee approved a memorializing resolution calling on the state legislature and governor to resolve problems with the state’s chargeback system for community colleges at its March 12 meeting. The resolution came in response to Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) […]
Young Democrats to hold “Fifty Shades of Blue”-themed fundraiser BY DYLAN SKRILOFF We’ve heard it said that power is the greatest aphrodisiac, but in politics, perhaps discretion should be named a close second. The Rockland County Young Democrats have chosen to ignore the discrete path, and are holding a fundraiser this evening, March 14, under […]
Assemblyman pushes for study to develop plan to create a new public school district PRESS RELEASE FROM ASSEMBLYMAN KENNETH ZEBROWSKIÂ Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski (D-Rockland) announced today that he is proposing a redistricting of the current East Ramapo School District that will partition territory to create a new public school district that better represents public school […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM CUOMO Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that a $1.5 billion TIFIA loan for the bridge project to replace the Tappan Zee will move to next stage of the U.S. Department of Transportation loan process. This financing will lower tolls on the bridge below all prior projections, though the state continues to […]