From Michael Parietti/Preserve Ramapo: Rockland County Legislature Redistricting Committee Unveils Its Proposed Map for the Legislature. Once again it is not fairly drawn. Public Hearing on the proposed map is set for Wed. Oct. 19th, 7:00 PM at the Rockland…
Office of Building and Codes Director Edward Markunas A Kennedy Drive property owner who challenged Rockland government’s right to prosecute fire and safety violations settled a lawsuit against the county. The Manhattan-based owner agreed to pay a $25,000 fine to cover more…
East Ramapo’s state monitors have repeatedly warned that the school district is teetering on a “fiscal cliff.” A $40 million hole looms for this year’s budget, and if it’s not fixed in time, the district faces dire consequences. For the…
By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal The New York Times Sept. 11, 2022 New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefitted from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside for oversight.…
Editorial by Peter Harckham Special to the USA TODAY Network “Our streams and fragile clean drinking water sources are essential to the health of our residents and the shared prosperity in our communities. We need to protect these important waterways…
“A Rockland County Court jury will likely decide whether rabbis Nathaniel and Aaron Sommer’s actions caused the fatal fire at the Evergreen Home for Adults, during which a Spring Valley firefighter and a resident died. Judge Kevin Russo upheld the multi-count…
To achieve the final boundaries of our proposed map, we used the Dave’s Redistricting online mapping tool, but in this final version we broke down Census Tracts into their component parts of Census Blocks, whenever necessary, to refine and hone…
“Jared Lloyd’s mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Spring Valley officials, two rabbis charged criminally with causing the fatal 2021 fire, and the owners of the Evergreen Court Home for Adults. The 30-page legal action argues the village,…
“Fairview Oval homeowners have asked a state judge to block a Ramapo land sale designed to bring a park to the village and extra land for development at a private school. The legal action filed in New York State Supreme Court argues…
Prepared by Mike Carey and Mike Parietti The Rockland County Legislature has been shamefully gerrymandered, for more than twenty years, at the expense of communities of color in eastern Ramapo, as well as suburban areas and Orthodox communities in western…
