Ed Chorba’s Political Cartoon
COMMUNITY VIEW: Preserving Orangetown
BY THOM KLEINER Candidate, Orangetown supervisor Over the past several months I have met hundreds of Orangetown residents at their doors as I have campaigned for Supervisor. Everyone wants an affordable town, safe neighborhoods and clean air. But one issue dominates all others, regardless of age, party, or ideology: the fervent desire to preserve the character and integrity of […]
Carlucci Calls on Governor to Sign Financial Literacy Bill
PRESS RELEASE FROM OFFICE OF SENATOR CARLUCCI Senator David Carlucci this week called on Governor Cuomo to sign S.1170-A into law. The bill, sponsored by Carlucci and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, allows qualifying women in public assistance employment programs to seek participation in financial literacy and personal finance courses. Participating in such classes will build awareness of […]
Ramapo Announces Return of Assessor Scott Shedler
PRESS RELEASE—During a session of the Ramapo Town Board last night, members approved he rehiring of Scott Shedler as Town Assessor. A member of the Executive Board of the New York State Assessors Association, Shedler has more than 30 years as an assessor—including more than two decades of serving as Ramapo’s Town Assessor until 2016. […]
Cornell repudiates unsavory elements
Keith Cornell, candidate for Rockland County Surrogate Court, has released the following statement: “I have become aware that certain elements in our county have been issuing bigoted and anti-Semitic statements using social media and excerpts from a local newspaper regarding my opponent in the race for surrogate. “I am denouncing this action in the strongest […]
America: The World’s No. 1 Jailer at a Cost of Billions Each Year
BY DIANE DIMOND Let’s talk about the U.S. prison system, shall we? By that I mean the whole shebang: prisons run by the federal government, state jails, local jails and juvenile correctional institutions. And let’s toss in immigration detention facilities, military prisons and the 76 jails on Native American lands. All together, the United States […]