Town of Stony Point

BY: Keith S. Shikowitz, Investigative Reporter Factors that go into winning an election range from personality, good advertising of the candidate, knowledge of the issues which the constituents feel are important and which way the political winds are blowing at the time. In 2020 the political winds favored Elijah Reichlin Melnick over Bill Weber. After […]

BY: Keith S. Shikowitz, Investigative Reporter He also said that he introduced legislation along with Ken Zebrowski in the Assembly that was going to give them some relief and allow the state to renegotiate that so that we were not putting businesses on the hook due to the fact that inflation has occurred, and things […]

BY: Keith S. Shikowitz, Investigative Reporter Let’s look at the No Bail laws now, which is creating a lot of the lack of safety in New York State, not just in your district. There’s been band aids put on it and this is what other outlets and people in the media said, that they put […]

BY: Keith S. Shikowitz, Investigative Reporter I’m with Tom Lapolla who is running for the 99th Assembly District, covering Stony Point and mostly Orange County. Lapolla was born in the Bronx and is a retired New York City fireman having served 38 years achieving the rank of Battalion Chief who always paid attention to the […]

BY: Keith S. Shikowitz, Investigative Reporter You were talking about how in certain regulatory meetings, they brought everybody to the table, all the stakeholders. Well, with the no bail laws, they didn’t do that. They brought only the defense attorneys and the Democrats to the table. That’s how we ended up with the over 400 […]

This week: Stony Point Supervisor Jim Monaghan and Rose Memorial Library Director Alice Meacham have provided essays describing their positions regarding Proposition 2, increased funding for the Library to rebuild much of it, on same land. Stony Point Town Supervisor Jim Monaghan Rose Memorial Library DirectorAlice Meacham The New Library Funding Breakdown and Explanation Rose […]