Rockland County’s Fiscal Health Better; Clarkstown’s Declining
Rockland County got an improved health checkup on the New York State Comptroller’s 2018 Fiscal Stress Monitoring System report.
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Rockland County got an improved health checkup on the New York State Comptroller’s 2018 Fiscal Stress Monitoring System report.
Continue ReadingThe scene today at the Dutch Gardens aside the Rockland County Courthouse was a property owner’s fantasy: More than 40 gardeners were pulling weeds, cleaning flower beds, carting away brush, planting, and spreading mulch.
Continue ReadingThe 10-page report, which is more a prescriptive than a specific road map, broadly touches on ways to enhance Clarkstown’s potential as a place to do business.
Continue ReadingRockland County Executive Ed Day unveiled the proposed 2020 budget which stays under the New York State property tax cap.
Continue ReadingGovernor Andrew Cuomo’s favorability and job performance ratings improved from all-time lows last month and his favorability rating is now back in positive territory.
Continue ReadingThe fate of a proposed CVS Pharmacy on Route 303 in Valley Cottage next to Lake Ridge Plaza could soon be determined by a Westchester court following more than three years of litigation that hinges on access to a right-of-way or “paper road” adjacent to the former Cefola oil change site.
Continue ReadingIn the upcoming report, several members of the economic committee are calling for Clarkstown’s leadership to find a way to allow the Palisades Center to expand its unoccupied fourth floor without the need for a public referendum.
Continue ReadingRockland County has grown its Unassigned Fund Balance in the General Fund from $6.2 million in 2017 to just over $32 million in 2018,” according to the Marks Paneth Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
Continue ReadingBy a 51-39 percent margin, New Yorkers say Andrew Cuomo has made New York a better place to live in his nine years as governor.
Continue ReadingGovernor Cuomo today signed into law legislation that expands equal pay laws to prohibit unequal pay on the basis of a protected class for all substantially similar work, and forbids employers from asking prospective employees about their salary history
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