Supervisor Hoehmann, Town Board Adopt at Special Meeting PRESS RELEASE – Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann, Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski and Senator David Carlucci announced that the Governor has signed bill, S6430/A7513, into law. The bill limits the shift between classes of taxable property in the Town of Clarkstown. Every year the town adopts adjusted base proportions, and every […]
By Rockland County Executive Ed Day It seems like just a couple of months ago that Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in West Haverstraw, announcing that municipalities needed to do something to bring costs under control. That something, he told us, was shared services. Never mind that counties across New York are burdened with unfunded […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week announced the official launch of the Work for Success Pledge, an online pledge in which businesses commit to consider hiring qualified individuals with criminal convictions. New York is the first state in the nation to develop such a pledge. More than 80 companies who do business in New York, including […]
NEW YORK – The new Tappan Zee Bridge that is under construction will not be called the Tappan Zee Bridge when it fully opens next year. A bill in the state legislature to name it the Mario Cuomo Bridge after the late governor and father of current Governor Andrew Cuomo, was slipped into a special […]
Statement on the 2014/15 Budget from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R,C,I – Fishkill) “I voted no on each budget bill because Governor Cuomo and the legislature continue to take New York down the wrong road. We’re still the highest-taxed, most regulated state in the country and this budget does little to turn that around. ” […]
To the Editor, Instead of throwing away $225M in taxpayer money, Cuomo could save a couple thousand jobs at Remington, Savage and other arms makers at no cost to the taxpayer by ridding us of the SAFE Act. Pennsylvania created 232,000 new jobs at $60,000 a year plus, small communities and counties in Northern Pennsylvania […]