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A roundtable discussion was held last week in Nyack featuring several local experts on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Rockland State Senator David Carlucci was recently appointed Chairman of the State Senate’s Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee…

Sharon Bailey is a Social Worker with BRiDGES and heads-up a local Veteran Peer Support Program. Bailey says transition from military to civilian life can be difficult…

Carlucci says there are nearly 45 million people struggling with PTSD. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says 20 veterans take their own life every day due to PTSD.

The Orange County Executive has been called to the Middle East to serve in a special warfare unit. Lieutenant Commander Steven Neuhaus has been a member of the U.S. Navy Reserves for 11 years, and he left Sunday to serve in what has been described in published reports as a “high octane area.” Deputy County Executive Harry Porr will run day-to-day operations.

Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday declared he and the Legislature would pass the Reproductive Health Act in the first 30 days of the new legislative session. Cuomo spoke yesterday at Barnard College in Manhattan and said passing the legislation would codify Roe v Wade rights into state law…

Cuomo also wants to pass a bill this year that gets the ball rolling on a Constitutional amendment that would protect women’s rights to control their own reproductive health. A constitutional amendment would require passage by two elected Legislatures and approval by a public vote.

The partial government shutdown entered its 18th day Tuesday with no end in sight. WRCR’s Market Analyst Ken Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management spoke to a Chase banker recently and says the Small Business Administration and the companies they serve are feeling the pinch…

A small business event in Westchester planned for this Friday has been cancelled. The event, “The 3C’s of the Small Business Administration: A Discussion on Capital, Counseling and Contracting,” was being run by the Small Business Administration, but they’ve been sidelined by the shutdown.

Explosives will reportedly be used to take down the remaining Tappan Zee Bridge structures the morning of January 12th, beginning at 9:30. County Executive Ed Day told “The Morning Show” Friday if the bridge is in your travel plans when the demolition is scheduled, either get over the bridge an hour or so early or wait until an hour or so afterwards…

The Thruway will close at 9am between exit 11 in Rockland and exit 9 in Westchester to accommodate the operation, which is expected to last less than an hour.