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2025: A New Look At The Residential Real Estate & Mortgage Markets

January 24, 2025January 29, 2025RCBJ-Connect

Opportunity Is Knocking For Senior Sellers And Younger Buyers Despite Market Uncertainty And Stubborn Interest Rates

Why The Village of Haverstraw Should Become A City

January 15, 2025January 22, 2025RCBJ-Connect

The Village of Haverstraw’s Future Is Dependent On Affordable Housing, More Robust Policing, Attention To Mental Health, Economic Stimulus. Is The Best Path Forward Autonomy?

The Future Of Retail Malls May Depend On Housing, Innovative Thinking About Community & Alternative Uses

January 15, 2025January 21, 2025RCBJ-Connect

Several Regional Malls Have Reinvented Themselves With Housing, Amenities, And Public-Private Partnerships ANALYSIS Retail is dead. Long live retail! Okay, maybe not dead but definitely in a state of transition, particularly the “mall,” once the iconic American symbol of consumerism. Pundits over the past decade have been tracking the demise of retail malls, some of […]

Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland

January 9, 2025January 15, 2025RCBJ-Connect

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, […]

New York’s New Short-Term Rentals Law Allows New Taxes & County Registries

January 6, 2025January 8, 2025RCBJ-Connect

Counties Can Opt-In, Create Local Registries, Collect Sales & Occupancy Taxes On Short-Term Rentals

It’s Not Heroic To Celebrate The Death Of Jordan Neely

December 19, 2024RCBJ-Connect

A Deeply Troubled Man Is Dead. That Is A Tragedy, Not A Reason To Celebrate

How Did Progressive Rockland County Become MAGA Red?

December 10, 2024RCBJ-Connect

Democrats Need To Recapture The Party From Ramapo Democrats Serving Republican Interests

Brian Thompson’s Assassin Is A Cold Blooded Killer, Not A Folk Hero

December 9, 2024December 12, 2024RCBJ-Connect

An Eye For An Eye Is Not The Way To Deal With Health Insurance Executives By Frank LoBuono It was right out of a Hollywood action/thriller Blockbuster. A top executive is coolly, efficiently, and brutally gunned down early in the morning in one of Manhattan’s busiest neighborhoods and at one of its most frenetic times […]