This coming Wednesday, our Editorial Board will be sitting down in two separate meetings with some of the most influential people in the state. The interviews will be streamed LIVE on LoHud.com.

First, at 11 a.m. the new SUNY Chancellorm Nancy L. Zimpher, and Purchase College President Tom Schwarz will join us. Zimpher, formerly president of [...]

I returned to the office after being away most of the last three weeks to find not only the usual mounds of newspapers and paperwork to catch up with, but several dramatic, tragic local stories.

They include the deaths of a mother and child in front of a dance studio in Brewster — an illegal immigrant [...]

USA Today’s lead story today basically tells us that, just by being on the planet last year, each of us in taxpaying households went into debt $55,000. That was just in 2008. It is all due to “an explosion of federal borrowing during the recession,’’ the paper reported, “plus an aging population driving up the [...]

Here on the Editorial Board, our school election season ends the day before Election Day; this year, that was May 19, last Tuesday. That’s because our views on whom we endorsed in contested school board races are published in a wrap-up the day before the ballot-casting to remind voters to do two things: 1) Vote [...]

Every year around this time, our Editorial Board is in the throes of interviewing candidates for boards of education across the Lower Hudson Valley. In my 22 years here, I have never seen such interest in school races. Some facts:

There are a total of 53 school districts in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam with school board [...]

It has been three years since Jim Amico’s 10-year-old son,  Jarrid, was killed by a van after being struck as he pedaled across the street near his Rye home on his bike. Police said that the 82-year-old man who was at the van’s wheel was driving below the speed the limit and was not charged.

It [...]

The Performing Arts Center in downtown White Plains at the top of the City Center mall is in trouble financially, its future murky. It’s a shame but not a surprise. The 410-seat performing arts center opened downtown in 2003, near the more popular movie multiplex. It has struggled to find its niche all along, offering [...]

Lazying about with nothing to do? Not too interested in going over the bills on your desk or finishing up that 2008 income tax return? Take a gander at what the people we elect, and those who are appointed to run state government, earn.

Thanks to the Empire Center for New York State Policy, “a project [...]

Wow. The Democratic tsunami and voter demand for change of last November roll on, reaching all the way into local villages in the Lower Hudson Valley. Yesterday’s election for mayors, village board trustees and, in some places, village justices, certainly was not the same-old, same-old.
In Croton-on-Hudson, Democrats swept back into power by a thin margin [...]

It may be the day after St. Patrick’s Day but it is the day for village elections.

Need some guidance before you head to the polls today? Check out our Editorial Board’s endorsements in contested mayoral and village trustee elections in Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties at LoHud.com/villageleections09. (Some voters also will elect village justices at [...]