Candidates in most contested elections for mayor, supervisor and trustee in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties are invited to discuss the issues and their campaigns in endorsement interviews with Editorial Board. As in the past, these discussions will form the basis of news articles and serve as fodder for the Editorial Board’s recommendations. Because of [...]

Readers are praising a 14-year-old Armonk girl who protected her younger sister and helped police catch a burglar Monday after the suspect allegedly broke into the family’s home. Katherine Weiss called authorities after locking herself and her 9-year-old sister Caroline in a bedroom during the break-in. Police apprehended a man who they say may be [...]

Readers had plenty of thoughts on why housing sales and prices are down in the region, and were happy to share them on LoHud.com. The reaction came after the state’s Association of Realtors released a report that said sales decreased more dramatically in the Lower Hudson Valley than in the state or nation. Read reporter [...]

Would you make a pact with a spouse to kill him or her if either one of you was terminally ill? That’s one of the questions being debated among readers after 77-year-old Paul Weinstein of New Rochelle was arrested by police Wednesday for killing his ill wife. Police said the two had an agreement wherein [...]

Readers had plenty to say about Tuesday’s vote by Westchester County Legislators to accept the federal government’s housing settlement that would require the county to build 750 units of affordable housing in the county’s whitest communities. Read reporter Gerald McKinstry’s story and then tell us what you think.
Here’s what one person had to say about [...]

Our readers managed to keep it clean while discussing the decline of civility in modern society, as evidenced by recent public outbursts from U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, tennis star Serena Williams and singer Kanye West at the Mtv Video Music Awards. Read the story and then tell us what you think.
Here’s one [...]

A comparison of municipal salaries in the Lower Hudson Valley with municipal salaries across the state showing that several local communities, including Yonkers and Clarkstown, are at the top of the salary heap, had readers fired up about the salaries and benefits for municipal employees, especially police officers.
The report was compiled by the Empire Center [...]

The arrest of another allegedly drunk motorist for driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway has readers debating — namely, is the highway’s design or the inebriated state of the driver the bigger factor when it comes to driving the wrong way on the road?
This time, State Police said they arrested a 19-year-old [...]

A new provision being added to a Westchester County bill under consideration that would allow the county to seize vehicles used in drag racing incidents on county roads is going nowhere fast with readers. The overall bill would also permit the county to take vehicles used in drunk driving convictions. The seizure bill would only [...]

A state law banning texting while driving isn’t winning any points with readers who have little tolerance for anything that districts their fellow motorists. They also are panning the law for being more lenient that one currently on the books in Westchester and Putnam counties. Read the story by Ken Valenti and then tell us [...]