Commonsense and budgeting? Apparently, it’s happened in Piermont. The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library’s 2010-11 budget is set at $328,300, or 2.5 percent lower than this year’s $337,042 budget. How did that happen? It seems there are a few factors. The library moved into a new building two years… Read More →
The controversy surrounding a decision by the East Ramapo School Board to hire a lawyer from Long Island at a considerably higher fee, especially after videos from the meeting surfaced on YouTube has many readers say it is an example of how the board and the community have become polarized… Read More →
News that Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Carmel, has decided to seek Sen. Vincent Leibell’s state Senate seat rather than challenge U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-19, has readers dissecting Ball’s record, his campaigning practices and political maneuvering in Putnam County in general. Here’s some chatter from LoHud.com. One reader, writing under the… Read More →
Readers aren’t at all surprised by the announcement that Starwood Hotels global headquarters is relocating a few miles away to Stamford, CT, after New York failed to match the level of financial and tax incentives being offered by Connecticut. Many are citing New York’s high-tax status and its non-business-friendly atmosphere,... Read More →
Video surveillance tape of Diane Schuler taken at a gas station in Liberty and audio clips of the calls to state police from her family that were posted on LoHud.com has ignited among readers the discussions about the deaths, medical examiner’s report and continuing coverage of this accident. They are… Read More →
The state Legislature has passed a law to make driving drunk with a kid in the car a felony. Will it curb drunken driving? Some say no, but the dialogue over this bill has raised awareness/education on the issue. Also included in the bill, the requirement that people convicted of… Read More →
It was great to see that Assemblywoman Amy Paulin picked up on the Editorial Board’s call for New York to enact a law that would require a three foot safety buffer for motorists passing a cyclist on the road. This press release just came into our inbox. “Assemblywoman Paulin announced the… Read More →
A federal drug sweep by the FBI and local and county police netted 33 gang members in Westchester County and lots of discussion by readers on drug problems in the Lower Hudson Valley and beyond. Here’s what people are saying about the raid, which was carried out last night and… Read More →
Despite Albany lawmakers assurances that higher fees for new license plates likely won’t come to pass, New York residents aren’t feeling reassured. In actuality, nothing about the proposal to change the license plates is finding much favor among LoHud readers—from the fees to the aesthetics of the plates to the… Read More →
I wrote a column over the weekend about the Fort Hood shootings. It takes issue with the scapegoat reasoning that, somehow, less political awareness, less cultural awareness and less religious awareness are the answers to such violence. That seems to be the upshot of the argument being advanced by the… Read More →