Dear colleagues, The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government’s efforts to criminalize the pursuit of […]
PRESS RELEASE AND LETTER FROM HARRIET CORNELL, CHAIR OF ROCKLAND COUNTY LEGISLATURE In a letter to the publisher and the editor of the Journal News, Chairwoman of the Rockland County Legislature Harriet Cornell has recommended the corporate office take positive action to regain the confidence lost by scores of Rockland and Westchester residents as a result of […]
Lawmakers praise Rockland County Times coverage BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Their names have been broadcast in bright daylight. Undercover officers, some who pose as “bad guys” that should not be allowed to have a pistol permit, outed by their own local newspaper. Orangetown Police Chief Kevin Nulty joined a growing […]
Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco made national headlines when on January 4 he told the media his correction officers at Rockland County Jail had received taunts from inmates who now knew exactly where they lived thanks to the Journal News gun map. Falco told the Rockland County Times that inmates do not have computer access, […]
Non-partisan solutions for America BY DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN It’s a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department’s July jobs figures showed that employers added 163,000 new workers last month. That exceeds what most forecasters were predicting. But it’s only […]