Next stop: Governor’s desk The New York State Senate joined with its Assembly counterparts in passing Lauren’s Law, which aims to boost organ donations, on Wednesday, June 20. It was passed unanimously. The bill (S.7103A) now heads to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. The bill expands the donor options on driver’s license […]
Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt will announce Wednesday that she plans to run for re-election for the New York State Assembly in the newly drawn 98th Assembly District. Rabbitt has served in the Assembly since 2005, representing the current 97th District. Due to redistricting, she will now be covering new territory in Orange and Rockland counties. Rabbitt […]
Assemblymembers Kenneth Zebrowski and Ellen Jaffee along with Senator David Carlucci have introduced a bill (A10707, S7736) that will allow the county to issue up to $80 million in bonds to pay off its deficit for the fiscal years 2010, 2011 and 2012. This bill, the Rockland County Deficit Financing Act will require strict oversight […]
Rockland County Times Editorial Figures a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court would know if a lawsuit is frivolous or not. William Sherwood, a longtime state Supreme Court judge and one-term supervisor of the Town of Stony Point (2010-11), told Stony Pointers throughout 2011 that school tax equalization lawsuits being pursued by […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday announced an agreement on legislation to strengthen New York’s domestic violence laws. The agreement includes a series of measures to protect victims of domestic violence and crack down on repeat offenders. Provisions in the bill include increasing the penalty […]
Official statement from the Clarkstown Taxpayers President Guy Gervasi The Clarkstown Taxpayers have actively pushed the Clarkstown Town Board to pursue any consolidation of its government services if it could save money for the taxpayers. However, in the case of the planned consolidation of the three town garage, which our group initially pushed, the Town […]