Category: US News

Sustainable Saturday: After Indian Point

… a clean energy future. An agreement to shutter the ailing Indian Point nuclear reactors in Buchanan, NY (Westchester County) was announced on January 9. Under the deal hammered out between keep its employees on board until the shutdown, finding new …

Is ‘Hillary Clinton for mayor’ crazy talk?

If there’s any glimmer of truth to the rumors that Hillary Clinton is considering a run for mayor of New York City, it would be evidence that she might have tripped and bumped her head during one of those long walks she’s been taking in the woods of Westchester County. It’s not that she couldn’t make a credible run.

NY Post Endorses Hillary Clinton for Mayor

… also for constituents in areas far from the media spotlight.” Clinton, who lives in Chappaqua, N.Y., in Westchester County, would need to become a city resident “and spend months building ties to Gotham’s neighborhoods,” the editorial notes. “Nor …

State, Federal Lawmakers React To Deal To Close Indian Point By 2021

Indian Point’s two nuclear power plants would be closed permanently by 2021 under a deal confirmed Friday by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who called it “a complete surprise to us” and “potentially catastrophic.” Early reaction to the proposed permanent closing of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors by 2021 has been met with a mix of shock, disappointment as well as praise.

This Week From Albany: Cuomo’s road show

… make $79,500 and haven’t seen a raise in 18 years. The speeches continue Tuesday on Long Island and in Westchester County and Wednesday in Syracuse and Albany – coincidentally on a day when the Legislature won’t be in town. The work has gotten off …

Letter: Angry white men didn’t deliver presidency

Former President Bill Clinton recently told the editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, a community newspaper in Westchester County, N.Y., that, “one thing he [President-Elect Trump] does know is how to get angry white men to vote for him.” I am a white male, but I did not vote for Trump because I was an “angry white” man.

Downstate New York Suburbs To Welcome Back Gun Shows

Phil Burns, a firearms instructor, holds a handgun that he carries as part of his survival supplies at his home in American Fork, Utah, Dec. 14, 2012. Democrats in the downstate New York suburbs of Westchester County want to stop a scheduled gun show in the area, but their efforts appear to be on track to be rebuffed by the Republican county executive.

Who will lead the Democrats out of the wilderness?

A recent article reporting that some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are searching for a glimpse of her as she wanders the woods near her Westchester County, New York, home seems a good signal to declare that the Democrats’ wilderness years have officially begun. The final Democratic hopes to change the election’s outcome expired Monday when the electoral college certified Donald Trump as the next president.

Who will lead the Democrats out of the wilderness?

A recent article reporting that some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are searching for a glimpse of her as she wanders the woods near her Westchester County, New York, home seems a good signal to declare that the Democrats’ wilderness years have officially begun. The final Democratic hopes to change the election’s outcome expired Monday when the electoral college certified Donald Trump as the next president.

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Trump children face scrutiny over fundraisers

… charity fundraising that came with any access to those people. After former Bill Clinton told a local Westchester County newspaper Trump “doesn’t know much,” Trump shot back on Twitter saying Clinton “doesn’t know much” about getting voters to the …

Hillary Clinton, Bigfoot

The “Hillary C.” is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid …. Scientists discount the existence of the Hillary C. and consider it to be a combination of folklore , misidentification, and hoax , rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population. Whoa, wait! Did I type in that “Hillary C.” above? Oh, I am so sorry! I meant to say “Bigfoot”! Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Bigfoot! The Sasquatch! And scratch that “Westchester County, NY,” too.

Bill Clinton Says Trump Won Because He Galvanized Angry White Men

Bill Clinton held nothing back while speaking with reporters from The Record-Review, a weekly paper that caters to the clusters of towns in Westchester County where the Clintons reside. The former president associated Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat to FBI Director James Comey, but also said Donald Trump tapped into the angry white man vote, which secured his presidency.

Bill Clinton: ‘One thing’ Trump knows ‘is how to get angry, white men to vote for him’

Bill Clinton did not mince words when asked by the editor of a small New York newspaper for his thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump. The editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, a community newspaper in Westchester County, New York, bumped into Clinton at a local bookstore last week, where the former president proceeded to give candid answers about a series of election-related topics to a group that had gathered around him.