Opinion Exchange
A conversation with the Editorial Board of The Journal News and LoHud.comAstorino tweets his anti-violence project for Westchester
Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino announced Wednesday an anti-violence project that unites mental health experts, schools and nonprofits. The project is his response to the Dec. 14 school shooting that left 20 first-graders and six educators, in addition to the shooter and his mother, dead in Newtown, Conn. Astorino and… Read More →
Editorial Spotlight replay: Fair housing in Westchester
Watch a replay of today’s Editorial Spotlight discussion on fair housing in Westchester with Westchester Residential Opportunities Inc.: Watch live streaming video from editorialspotlight at livestream.com For more on the group and its recent study on discrimination, read our editorial. Find a copy of the study on the WRO’s website.
Best of the week in gun control coverage
This was a busy week for gun control legislation in both Albany, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. Catch up by reading this roundup of news and opinion: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s SAFE Act passed the Senate on Monday night and the Assembly late Tuesday afternoon, and then Cuomo signed itjust… Read More →
Two years on, gun shows at Westchester County Center still cause conflict
The following editorial was originally published in The Journal News on June 22, 2010, after Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino overturned a ban on gun shows at the Westchester County Center. We are posting it here today because Astorino, under pressure from Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner and others after… Read More →
Editorial Spotlight: Astorino talks Westchester’s budget on Tuesday
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s fiscal 2012 budget proposal trims hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in spending, while eliminating county support for scores of popular endeavors, the gamut from festivals to nature programs. He discusses his plans in a LIVE Editorial Spotlight interview 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on LoHud.com…. Read More →
Opinion Roundup: County budgets; Astorino and HUD; flood-insurance reform
Good afternoon. Here’s a curated look at the weekend’s opinion conent: Sunday, Nov. 20 We carried a pair of editorials on budgets proposed by the leaders of county governments in Westchester and Rockland counties. Tough choices loom on both sides of the Hudson as services and programs are slated to… Read More →
Opinion Roundup: After the election
Here’s a glance at today’s opinion content: Astorino and the election: Editorial In our Westchester-Putnam edition, we carried an editorial that analyzed the still-unclear results of Tuesday’s election. The Democratic “supermajority” on Westchester County Board of Legislators is in play and we look at the implications for Republican County Executive… Read More →
Analysis: Voters have a different message for Astorino
Wednesday’s headline in Westchester will doubtless key in on whether the Democrats retained their “super majority” in the Board of Legislators. What else would it be, given the endless attention County Executive Rob Astorino showered on the political math? The voters weren’t nearly as enthused. Astorino, the first-term Republican, has… Read More →
Video: Adolfo Carrion on Westchester’s housing settlement
Adolfo Carrion, a former Bronx Borough President who now serves as director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, talked Thursday with the Editorial Board about Westchester County’s affordable housing settlement. Here’s a clip of the interview: To watch the session in its entirety, go to lohud.com/editorialspotlight