Rockland County finance, bankruptcy, environmental, employment
Court Rejects County Assertions Of Trade Secrets & Other Exemptions As ‘Conclusory Assertions Without Factual Support’ For the second time in less than a year, a Rockland County judge has enforced the spirit of New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), and used its teeth to force the government to produce documents. This week, the […]
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Clarkstown Increased Its Outstanding Debt To About $160 Million; Up From $112 Million In 2021 At nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in May, Clarkstown’s town board held a special meeting and voted on a resolution to buy St. Paul’s Convent at the corner of Gilchrest and Kings Highway for $930,000. A second resolution authorized […]
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Multiple Factors Point To An Elevated Risk Of Foreclosures In Rockland County, According to NestCash NestCash, a real estate investment and data company published a county-level New York Foreclosure Risk Index, and scored against the 55 counties outside New York City, Rockland ranks first. The first-place ranking is not a good thing. One driver behind […]
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The Region’s Economy (And Your Career) Are Enhanced By Participation On A Non-Profit Board By Mike Oates The best investment I have ever made in the Hudson Valley economy never cost me a dollar. It cost me a few Tuesday nights. We usually talk about economic development in terms of sites, incentives and shovels in […]
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The Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act and the FAIR News Act Are Intended To Curb AI Abuses and Compel Disclosure In The News By David Carlucci Every morning, people across Rockland open a local news site to check a school closing, a zoning vote, or a traffic alert. On some of those same sites, a large […]
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Dozens of Changes, Large & Small, Will Impact How Both The Legislature And The County Executive Branches Function While voters are focused on the bigger races, Lawler vs. Conley, Hochul vs. Blakeman, and in Clarkstown, Hoehmann vs. Bondar, the County Legislature has passed a local law that would make substantive and substantial changes to the […]
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Midtown Kingston Receives Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) Designation Midtown Kingston has been approved for the Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) designation by New York’s Department of State. Designation gives development in the area priority and preference for State programs, eligibility for pre-development funding, and unlocks tax credits for property owners and developers for brownfield cleanup and […]
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Fiscal Stress Scores Evaluate Financial Stability & Management; Moody’s “AA” Credit Ratings Issued On New Clarkstown Debt ANALYSIS Orangetown, Stony Point, Clarkstown and Haverstraw are not fiscally stressed, according to The New York State Comptroller’s Office’s annual report released last week. In contrast, Ramapo was designated as being moderately fiscally stressed due to diminished fund balances […]
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Diesel Prices Are At An All-time High, And Empire State Farmers Are Feeling The Pain By David Carlucci How Bad Is It? Their situation was already precarious. In 2025, New York lost farms at double the national average rate and farmland five times faster. For many farm families struggling to stay afloat, the price of […]
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Battery Storage Projects Are Good For The Economy, Good For Reducing Energy Bills, And Safe
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