Members of the Westchester Board of Legislators — Chairman Ken Jenkins; Vice Chairman Lyndon Williams; Legislator Michael Kaplowitz, chairman of the board’s Committee on Government Operations, Efficiency and Savings; and Legislator John Testa — appear in a LIVE Editorial Spotlight interview at 2 p.m. Thursday on LoHud.com. They will discuss County… Read More →
Good morning. Here’s a glance at today’s opinion content: • In an editorial, we assess the value of a recent “How Green is My Town?” survey conducted by Grassroots Environmental Education, a regional nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about connections between the environment and human health, and the Pace… Read More →
Readers have had lots to say since news broke earlier this month that Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino planned to cut the BxM4C Bee-Line bus, an express service that conveys commuters from the Central Avenue corridor to Manhattan. In a Monday meeting, members of the County Board of Legislators’ Public… Read More →
Members of the Westchester Board of Legislators, including Chairman Ken Jenkins, Vice Chairman Lyndon Williams and Michael Kaplowitz, chairman of the board’s Committee on Government Operations, Efficiency and Savings, appear in a LIVE Editorial Spotlight interview 2 p.m. Thursday on LoHud.com. They will discuss County Executive Rob Astorino’s veto of… Read More →
Good morning. Here’s a look at today’s opinion content: • In an editorial, we lament the state’s woeful application for federal “Rage to the Top” education reform grants. Given a number of legislative failures that would have made the state a stronger applicant, we were surprised that New York was… Read More →
Join us at 1 p.m. Tuesday for an Editorial Spotlight interview with officials from Grassroots Environmental Education, a regional non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the links between common environmental exposures and human health. Grassroots and Pace University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies worked together to study 43… Read More →
LoHud.com readers had quite a bit to say this weekend and today about the troubling allegations facing White Plains Mayor Adam Bradley. Charged Feb. 28 with assaulting his wife, Fumiko, who later asked a judge to drop the charges, Bradley’s political position appears to be in limbo. His situation worsened… Read More →
Good morning. Here’s a look at opinion content published in this weekend’s and today’s editions of The Journal News: • Writing in a Community View published Saturday, Ina Aronow, communications director of the League of Women Voters of Westchester, asks readers to recognize the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment,... Read More →
Good morning. Here’s a roundup of today’s opinion content: • In an editorial today, we assert that it must be hard for White Plains Mayor Adam Bradley to get anything done at City Hall in the light of the increasingly troubling situation he faces at home. Bradley was charged with… Read More →
Readers have had a good deal to say today about the news that office of state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has expanded its probe into whether public employees have manipulated their salaries and overtime payments to inflate their pensions. The expansion includes probes into payroll records from Westchester and Rockland… Read More →