Tune in at 3 p.m. LIVE Wednesday for an Editorial Spotlight interview on the False Claims Act lawsuit against Westchester County. Our guest will be Craig Gurian, executive director of the nonprofit Anti-Discrimination Center for Metro New York, which brought the suit. A proposed settlement of its claim would compel the county to build some [...]

We published a letter today from a Pearl River resident who was pretty down on health-care reform. The letter-writer renews the discussion about “death panels,” writing, “Of course, there’s nothing in HR 3200 that’s called a death panel. But the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research was enacted in the stimulus bill.”

The writer continued, [...]

So much of the discussion about the pending settlement of the False Claims Act lawsuit against Westchester County has focused on the county’s limited room for legal maneuvering and the financial risks of continuing the legal fight. The administration of County Executive Andrew Spano, which wants the Board of Legislators to OK the settlement, [...]

“Does business news induce sleep or make your eyes roll? Ever write down something that Jim Cramer said and then act on that advice? Do you think that business decisions should be left to the experts—after all, they have your best interests at heart?  If you answered ‘yes’ to any [...]

On Saturday’s Opinion page we hear from three medical providers on health-care reform, the policy and social debate of the hour. The guest opinions are from Dr. Daniel Fass, director of the Institute for Image Guided Radio Therapy in Rye; Dr. Bernard Bernhardt, an oncologist in Armonk; and Dr. P. Jon Marsh, a retired dentist [...]

If you haven’t already, please take a run through Milt Hoffman’s Sunday Perspective article about the settlement in the affordable-housing lawsuit involving Westchester County and the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York Inc.  Milt, retired senior editor of The Journal News, is a living treasure — the go-to person if you’re trying to understand how [...]

Tune in today as the Editorial Board continues the conversation about drunk driving – with a special Editorial Spotlight roundtable discussion with experts on the issue. (Here’s a link to today’s editorial on the subject.) You can watch it LIVE online by going to lohud.com/editorialspotlight.

The program is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.; it likely [...]

Today’s editorial sets the stage for the LIVE Editorial Spotlight at noon on the double-fatality drunken driving accident in  Brewster. It begins:
Today the Editorial Board hosts a community conversation about the issues arising from the horrific accident in Brewster last week that claimed the lives of a mother and her young daughter, allegedly by the [...]

I was off last week but hardly oblivious to the heat and anguish coming out of Brewster, where the lives of Lori and Kayla Donohue — 37-year-old mother and 8-year-old daughter, respectively — were snuffed out in the most violent, preventable and gut-wrenching fashion; they were struck and killed by a vehicle driven by a [...]

The unfolding story about the mistaken-identity, fatal police shooting in Harlem couldn’t be more sorrowful, or more familiar. We wrote about it on the Opinion page today. Obviously, there are many parallels between the death of NYPD Police Officer Omar J. Edwards, 25, and the death of our own Christopher Ridley, the Mount Vernon police [...]