The month of March is coming to a close, but before we welcome the April showers and May flowers please join me in recognizing and commemorating the accomplishments of women during Women’s History Month. Our country is forever in debt to the outstanding...

Cada año alrededor de este tiempo, todos sentimos esa vieja tensión familiar que crece a medida se acerca el 15 de abril. Es tiempo de rendir las planillas, y con todos los formularios y reglamentos y los nuevos créditos, puede parecer abrumador para...

Every year about this time, we all feel that old familiar tension building as we approach April 15th. It’s tax season, and with all the forms and regulations and new credits, it can seem a bit overwhelming to anyone, no matter how well you remember...

As tax season arrives, many of you are expecting tax refund checks and want that refund as soon as possible to keep yourself from going further into debt. However, I am urging people to be aware and not turn to refund anticipation loans (RALs) to receive...

To the Editor: Earlier in this legislative session, the Assembly and Senate passed similar legislation providing for the civil confinement of sexual predators. Because the two bills weren’t identical, a conference committee was formed to iron out...

The Legislature has reached a bipartisan agreement that makes significant investments in New York’s higher education system while rejecting the most harmful parts of the governor’s budget. Unlike the governor’s budget, the Legislature’s proposal...

This week the Legislature in a bipartisan fashion voted to override Governor Pataki’s ill-conceived budget vetoes – vetoes that would have left thousands of families without quality health care, low-cost prescriptions and much needed tax relief. The...

The Legislature’s Budget Agreement provides record school aid increases for Suffolk County schools. Unlike the governor’s proposal, this bipartisan plan provides students with the tools necessary to excel and succeed with aid to programs like Universal...

Assemblyman Phil Ramos is committed to seeing that the state’s 4 percent sales tax on clothing and footwear will be eliminated as scheduled on April 1. Eliminating the state sales tax would save Suffolk families $57 million a year. The Assembly passed...

Assemblyman Ramos and the Assembly Majority announced their higher education budget plan last week that rejects Governor Pataki’s wrong choices. This plan will make significant investments in New York’s higher education system while rejecting the...

When it comes to padding the pockets of the wealthy and leaving the middle-class and poor behind no one has fought harder than Governor Pataki. The Governor’s rhetoric about his budget benefiting New York’s working families was nothing more than political...

As a police officer for over 20 years, I’ve seen firsthand the destruction and harm caused by gun violence. Our communities continue to cope with this violence and flow of illegal guns on our streets. There is a solution to deal with this problem, but...