The inevitable has happened. Janet Hasson and the Journal News have gained revenge against the Rockland County Times and editor-in-chief Dylan Skriloff for the weekly community paper’s award-winning coverage of the daily newspaper’s infamous gun map debacle last winter. Journal News publisher Hasson and her editors revealed on Friday, October 4-Skriloff’s 34th birthday-that the Rockland […]
They don’t fire guns, they fire people instead. The Journal News Media Group publisher Janet Hasson was handed the grim task of laying off 26 employees, including 17 members of her own newsroom, due to new workforce shrinkage demanded by her corporate bosses at Gannett. The left-leaning newspaper reduced total employment from 232 to 206 […]
Pistol permit holders who wish to apply for privacy from public records searches may now fill out a form found at the Rockland County Clerk’s website: http://www.rocklandcountyclerk.com/ Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato told the Rockland County Times he hopes the state ultimately makes pistol permit privacy automatic so the state and counties needn’t waste time on […]
ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES STAFF EDITORIAL The Journal News finally acknowledged this week how badly outdated the information posted on their Rockland County gun map was. Back in early January, Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato said the “historic” (as in old) permits listed on the map were as much as 25 percent outdated. This news was […]
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Mad texter gets stuck in his own Nixonian trap BY DYLAN SKRILOFF You can’t deny you’re spying when you send the evidence to your opponent. Last week at a festive gathering of Democratic insiders, Suffern mayor and county executive candidate Dagan LaCorte was schmoozing it up with one of his […]
Dear RC Times Editor, I needed to take the time to write you and thank you for your continued support regarding the irresponsible journalism and extremely poor decision the Journal News made in making public the interactive map of pistol permits holders in Rockland County. I am a retired NYPD officer and currently the president […]