GOP county exec candidate calls for new court to get tough on property owners BY BILL DEMAREST NEW CITY – Rockland County Executive candidate Ed Day, R-New City, has called for a countywide effort targeting what he calls “irresponsible overdevelopment” that would include giving the county government authority to enforce building, fire and safety codes. […]
“Five families” of Rockland politics hold secret meeting behind cemetery at the offices of the Working Families Party; unlikely personalities seek to save Ed Lettre’s leadership of the Conservative Party (EDITOR’S NOTE POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2012— PLEASE SEE ADDENDUM AT END OF STORY) BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Desperate times call for half-baked measures! Influential kingmaker in […]
Well-spoken 18-year-old named new chairman of Rockland County Young Republicans BY ALLAN GOLDSTEIN In what promises to be a tightly contested election year, the Rockland County Young Republicans have a new man at the helm. Eighteen-year-old Elan Weinberger of New City assumed the role of club chairman on June 27 and wants to get more […]
Interview with Congresswoman Dr. Nan Hayworth on the Affordable Care Act and other options for American healthcare BY SCOTT MAIER On July 11 the US House of Representatives successfully voted to repeal President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) by a margin of 244-185 making this the 33rd vote to change or abolish the new law. […]
Lawrence Stone, the spokesman for the GOP coup attempt against GOP Chairman Vinny Reda’s party machine, says the Republican insurgency has signed up over 60 new potential committeemen. He also said he’s heard from dozens of existing committeemen and he believes over 100 are on the anti-Reda side. The anti-Reda efforts have sprung forth from […]
BY ANTHONY MELÉ Imagine 236 Independence days ago the inhabitants of Rockland County in 1776 heard the news the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Loyalist to King George knew this was a crime of such magnitude it meant an instant death sentence to all involved. The men we call founding fathers and the […]