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The New York State correction officers strike may be over but the headaches for the Rockland County jail and other local jails around the state persist. Rockland County Sheriff Lou Falco says the state asked him to take in prisoners that can’t be handled in the state prison system after two-thousand state correction officers were fired for not returning to work. Falco says he told the state, he can’t do that…

As part of the agreement reached over the weekend, the state will be working towards eliminating 24-hour mandatory overtime, and a committee will be established to analyze each facility’s staffing and operational inefficiencies with the goal of providing more relief to existing staff.

Civil rights icon Dr. Hazel Dukes was memorialized at a funeral service yesterday in Harlem. The civil rights activist died on March first at the age of 92. Dukes led the New York State NAACP for nearly five decades, fought for voting rights, fair housing, and education throughout her career. Haverstraw supervisor Howard Phillips says he had met Dukes several times…

In January 2023, Dukes performed the swearing-in ceremony for New York governor, Kathy Hochul…

Dukes also served as the head of the national NAACP from 1989 to 1992.

President Trump’s move yesterday to boost tariffs in aluminum and steel imports brought a swift response from Canada and Europe. The Associated Press reported Canada said Wednesday they’re adding a 25% reciprocal tariffs on steel products and would also raise taxes on multiple items, including tools, computers, display monitors and sports equipment. Likewise, the European Union said they’d raise tariffs on American beef, poultry, bourbon, motorcycles, peanut butter and jeans. WRCR market analyst Ken Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management doesn’t recommend Trump’s chaotic approach to tariffs…

Combined, the new tariffs will cost companies billions of dollars, and further complicate relationships with global trading partners. The AP says companies will either take the losses and earn fewer profits, or, more likely, pass costs along to consumers in the form of higher prices.

A child under the age of five and who wasn’t vaccinated has become the third person in New York to come down with the measles. This latest case is in Suffolk County. Two other earlier cases were from the city, reportedly an infant and a young child, have both since recovered. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says the nation-wide issue hasn’t yet touched Rockland so far…

Measles is highly contagious and spreads when you breathe it in or just by touching a contaminated surface. During an interview with FOX News, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in Texas malnourishment may be a factor to the more than 200 cases of measles that have been reported in that state’s current outbreak. Unvaccinated individuals who are exposed to measles should quarantine for three weeks. For more information, click the links here.