Good Wednesday morning. Here’s a a glance at today’s opinion content: Tappan Zee Bridge: Editorial We comment on news that President Barack Obama has fast-tracked a replacement for the aging Tappan Zee Bridge. We write: Fast-tracking the elaborate permit process for a new Tappan Zee Bridge is just one of… Read More →
The Journal News/LoHud.com Editorial Board holds endorsement interviews with candidates in key contests on the Nov. 8 ballot. Voters may watch LIVE online at www.lohud.com/editorialspotlight; questions can be submitted via our CoverItLive live-blogging feature. The following endorsement hearings are scheduled: Oct. 4: 1 p.m. Stony Point supervisor Oct. 4: 3… Read More →
Here’s a look at opinion content published over the weekend in The Journal News: Saturday, Sept. 24 Troy Davis: Commentary Alice T. Crowe, a Nyack attorney and playwright, offers a Community View on Troy Davis, the African-American man put to death last week in Georgia for the 1989 murder of… Read More →
Good Monday morning. Here’s a selection of opinion content published over the weekend and today: Saturday, Sept. 17 United Water: Community View Bert Dahm, a West Nyack resident and member of the West Nyack Hamlet Revitalization Committee, replies to a Sept. 10 Community View on United Water’s response to Irene…. Read More →
Good Monday morning. Here’s a digest of opinion content published in The Journal News over the weekend and today: Saturday, July 30 Norway attacks: Commentary Tim Rutten, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, assesses connections between literature consumed by Timothy McVeigh, architect of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and… Read More →
Good Monday morning. Here’s a glance at opinion content published over the weekend: Saturday, July 23 We published a pair of commentary pieces that probed whether or not the federal Enviornmental Protection Agency should enact a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial practice used for extracting natural gas from bedrock…. Read More →
Good Thursday afternoon. Here’s a glance at opinion content published today: Palisades Parkway rescue: Editorial We cheer the rescue of Annamaria Badenchini, a West Haverstraw woman pulled from the wreckage of her SUV moments before it exploded Tuesday on the Palisades Interstate Parkway. We write: … Todd Pezzementi of Stony… Read More →
Good Monday afternoon. Here’s a digest of opinion content published over the weekend in The Journal News: Saturday, July 16 Debt ceiling: Commentary Doyle McManus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, assesses the struggle between Congressional Republicans and the administration of President Barack Obama over raising the federal debt… Read More →
Good Thursday morning. Here’s a digest of opinion content published today in The Journal News: Mandate relief: Editorial We comment on news that Moody’s, the credit-rating agency, reported this week that Rockland County could suffer significantly because of the state’s new 2-percent property-tax cap. The time for mandate relief is… Read More →
Good Monday morning. Here’s a glance at opinion content that published in The Journal News this past weekend: Saturday, June 25 Rockland flooding: Editorial We comment on the flooding that swamped large swaths of the Lower Hudson Valley on Saturday. We write: … We’ve known for a decade or more… Read More →
