Jared Lloyd’s son turned six yesterday. Hundreds of first responders from Rockland County, Orange County, and New Jersey drove by his house to wish him a happy birthday. Lloyd died Tuesday morning as he helped save over 100 lives in a major fire at the Evergreen Adult Home in Spring Valley. Over 150 pieces of […]
BY E.J. McMAHON From the Empire Center The newly enacted federal income law provision limiting state and local tax (SALT) deductions “is likely to substantially decrease home values” in New York, Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. So claims a federal lawsuit filed by those four states against the Trump administration with the goal of having the $10,000 […]
Phillip E. Goldstein, managing partner of Goldstein Lieberman & Company LLC, announces that the 64-year-old firm has once again ranked as the largest in the Hudson Valley region in terms of number of CPAs on staff by Westfair Publications, Inc.’s regional business journal, HV Biz. The listing appeared in the newspaper’s recently published annual resource […]
Governor Cuomo Forms Commission to Look into Power Utility Companies Hurricane Sandy affected millions of New Yorkers, leaving some without power for as long as two weeks. Governor Cuomo signed an Executive Order aimed at reducing that wait time for when the next big storm hits. A commission has been established under the Moreland Act […]
According to O&R spokesman Mike Donovan, Hurricane Sandy caused unprecedented damage. Donovan called Sandy, “The worst storm in company history. Double the amount of damage from Irene.” Donovan said 80 percent of O&R’s customers were affected adversely by the storm. Compared to last year’s two epic storms, Sandy blows them away. Donovan said, “Snowtober was […]
Officials from AAA New York and AAA North Jersey called a press conference last week to mark the one-year anniversary of toll hikes by the Port Authority across all six of its bridges and tunnels. The plan, approved last year, calls for four separate toll increases by 2015. AAA officials at the conference called on […]