Can next year -- which coincides with President Trump's bid for re-election --get politically crazier? In Westchester, it's guaranteed.With the 2020 retirement of U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey after 31 years in Congress comes a blue and red wave of potential candidates. Many of them have either strong local, or national name recognition.At 82 years old, Lowey also is one of the ...

Just when he thought it couldn't get much worse. Gov. Ned Lamont's disapproval rating is on the rise, according to the latest public opinion poll.The new poll also shows that Connecticut residents believe the quality of life in the state is declining.Sacred Heart University's Institute for Public Policy and The Hartford Courant released results of their statewide survey of 1,000 ...

Two of New York's top congressmen turned up the heat in the ongoing impeachment investigation of President Trump on Tuesday, Oct. 8.Earlier on Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham announced that he would invite Rudolph Giuliani, New York City's former mayor, to testify about Ukraine.Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, reacted on Twitter: ...

A former presidential candidate is coming to the Westchester County Center to speak about issues affecting senior citizens.U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will speak at the County Center in White Plains on Thursday, Oct. 10.Will impeachment come up? It's not planned but who knows what questions will be asked by the audience beyond health care, housing and the economy.County Executive ...

Nearly $1 million in federal money has been awarded to a White Plains-based organization that helps survivors of human trafficking.U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Harrison), as chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced a U.S. Department of Justice grant from the Office for Victims of Crime totaling $925,000 for My Sisters’ Place, Inc. of White Plains. This grant will ...

Local government lawsuits against the family that owns Purdue Pharma should be allowed to proceed even as the company attempts to reach a nationwide settlement in bankruptcy court over the toll of the opioids crisis, according to a court filing on Wednesday, Oct. 2The filing by 19 cities and towns in Connecticut and three other states comes amid settlement negotiations with the maker of ...

A new public opinion poll finds that 65 percent of New Yorkers think "we are more partisan than ever."As Democrats ramp up an impeachment inquiry of President Trump, a Siena College Research Institute poll released on Thursday, Oct. 3 also found that more than one-fourth of the respondents said they think less of the people they know who hold different political viewpoints. Siena ...

After a rollercoaster of a decade, attendance at the county-owned Playland Amusement Park was up this summer by more than 10 percent over the 2018 season, according to Westchester officials.The good news coincides with the county cancelling its contract with Standard Amusements, which hoped to take over management of the park in Rye.Playland's 2019 attendance was 508,413, compared with ...

New sales taxes, minimum wage, safe gun storage rules and a 21-year-old minimum age to purchase tobacco and vaping products became law on Tuesday, Oct. 1.Prepared meals from restaurants, caterers and grocery stores are now taxed at 7.35 percent -- up from 6.35 percent. The 1 percent surcharge applies to supermarket catering services; sandwiches, grinders, coffee or tea sold for takeout; ...

U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. Adam Schiff, as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, as chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent this letter to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Friday, Sept. 27 for documents, including many he has refused to produce for weeks.The ...