Rockland County Executive Ed Day and the Rockland County Art in Public Places Committee on Wednesday dedicated two new county public artworks in front of Building D and Building A at the Dr. Robert L. Yeager Health Center in Pomona. “Support for the arts is an investment in Rockland’s economic well-being and quality of life,” […]
BY SHERLY JOURDAINÂ On Aug. 11, 2017, Pres. Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national state of emergency. The Center of Disease and Control reports three out of five overdose deaths are opioid-related, and an alarming estimate of one in every four persons who are using opioids for pain management will struggle with addiction. In […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day You need look no further than a Rockland ballpark to see the results of a total failure of municipal planning in the county’s largest town, Ramapo. More than 400 children, some as young as five-years-old, are attending classes inside a baseball stadium. How is this possible? The immediate […]
BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The concept of medical marijuana has gained broad acceptance across America’s demography even while politicians and government bureaucracies in Washington D.C. continue to stymie policy change. National polls commissioned by Yahoo and Quinnipiac this year measured public support for federal acceptance of medical marijuana at 83 and 94 percent respectively, an overwhelming political […]
BY JONATHAN CALIXTE AND DYLAN SKRILOFF PHOTOS BY AARON MOELLER Roger Jason Stone, Jr., a political consultant and self-described “dirty tricks” expert brought to prominence in 2015 & 16 for his advocacy of and perceived proximity to Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, was the keynote speaker and special guest at the Rockland GOP’s fundraiser […]
BY DR. LOUIS ALPERT OMBUDSMAN The question in this article’s title was posed in an emergency coast-to-coast conference call held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 by a coalition of leading safety and consumer advocates and families of victims of deadly vehicle defects which called on the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to […]