The results are in — dozens of motorists zip past stopped school buses loading

and unloading their young passengers. Here’s today’s report from our Albany Bureau on the result of a 40-day program that put cameras in school buses in Brewster, Bethlehem and Canandaigua. Each district had just one camera. That camera recorded 22 illegal passes [...]

He was quick with a lollipop to soothe the sting of a shot. He made house calls at all hours of the night to check in on his young patients. The families he served for decades are mourning the loss of Dr. Sidney William Berezin, who died Oct. 12. He was 89.

Dr. Berezin was the [...]

Early this morning, I sat down in front of the computer for a quick check of the early headlines, etc. The AOL screen came up with a headline that said something like “Surprise Nobel winner.”

I saw a big picture of President Obama to the left. I  thought, “oh, someone put in the wrong JPEG … [...]

There’s lots of concern about H1N1 (swine) flu, and lots of confusion, too. Last week, a woman who volunteers at a local hospital wrote a letter claiming that “thanks to our president,” she had to leave a position that she loved, because she didn’t want to get the flu shot.

New York is the first state [...]

Now, Moshe Lefkowitz can’t figure out the fuss over debris, etc., at the site where he has been coordinating kapparot ceremonies for ultra-Orthodox Jews. The ceremony, performed during the

period between Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, involves passing a chicken over one’s head three times while a prayer is recited, a symbolic [...]

In a surprise to no one, the Tax Foundation reports that Westchester again ranks No. 1 in median real estate taxes paid. (Based on U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data for 2008.) The county’s held the top slot for several years now. Rockland moved up in 2008 to No. 5, from No. 7 in [...]

Well, yes, the New York State Senate is back in session, but it couldn’t get ethics reform legislation to the floor. (They are still for it, though, they said today in a joint press release, which you can read about it in the Albany Watch blog.)

Of the limited action the Senate was able to muster [...]

A recent news story and editorial on a $1.63 million “Restore New York grant  for a new, state-of-the-art kosher poultry slaughterhouse in New Square has grabbed plenty of attention. The plant has been panned by the Rockland County Planning Department, and neighors in the next-door Village of New Hempstead are very concerned; a public hearing [...]

Today’s editorial explores Silver Alert, a program designed to help find people who have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia if they go missing. (The Lower Hudson Valley, as Director of Putnam County’s Office for the Aging William Huestis describes it, a “gray belt,” with a significant and growing population over 65.)

Both Westchester and [...]

Today’s Community View by Rockland Business Association President/CEO drew comments. After all, it’s about Indian Point, which continues to be a hot-button issue in the Lower Hudson Valley. Samuels’ basic point? Well, here’s the “nut graf,” editor-speak for the sentence or sentences that summarize the essence, and context of the story or the “why it [...]