Rockland County voices from our editors and guest columnists
Challenges Exist Despite Advantages: Quality-of-life, Strategic Access to the New York Metro Economy, and Demand For Industrial, Multifamily, Healthcare, and Retail Assets
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The people writing the checks are working families who can’t afford lawyers, can’t afford days off for hearings, can’t afford to have their registrations suspended. A $250 ticket doesn’t touch someone with a financial cushion. But for a home health aide in the Bronx, a delivery driver in Rockland County, a single mother juggling two jobs? That’s groceries. That’s rent. That’s the difference between keeping your car legal and falling into the enforcement spiral.
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Editor’s Note: The arts are a significant thread in the fabric of Rockland County. They inspire, enrich, and chronicle our lives. They also play a role in our economic well-being; theater, writing, dance, crafts draw us to spaces. They invite strangers to share in our bounty. They are an indelible contribution. Welcome again, Christine Potter, […]
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401(k) Options Provide Valuable Flexibility For Union Workers Who Want To Save More Or Diversify Their Retirement Planning By David Carlucci When Congress passed SECURE 2.0, the goal was straightforward and widely supported: make it easier for Americans to save for retirement by automatically enrolling workers in 401(k) plans. For many workplaces, that approach works. […]
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Governor Hochul’s Agenda Addresses Impediments That Have Made New York Slower, More Expensive, And Less Predictable Than Peer States
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Why bacteria, debris, and flooding move downstream — and what residents, municipalities, and county leaders can do
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People who drive dangerously have long decried any type of enforcement as a “money grab.” Automated enforcement, like the recently adopted school bus stop arm cameras, really boils such drivers’ blood because it is enforcing laws in far more places than police officers could ever be at any given time.
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Sparkill’s Maureen Henry writes with one hundred percent HUMAN intelligence. She says she came to poetry as a grownup, during a time in her life when she “was carrying more emotion than I knew how to manage.”
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The RAISE Act Focuses AI’s Impact On Consumers, Workers, and Vulnerable Populations
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In Westchester and Rockland, the share of single‑family home sales at or above $1 million has grown steadily, pulling more middle‑ and upper‑middle‑income households into a tax originally marketed as a rich buyers only surcharge.
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