Arts | Westchester: Peekskill to Cut the Ribbon on a Child-Crafted Trail of Tiles
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Public Tile Project opens on Sunday at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill.
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EVENT: Westchester Jazz Orchestra to Perform Music of Sax Masters in Irvington on Dec 5
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Westchester, NY - Fresh from their sold-out September concert featuring guitarist John Scofield, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra will perform "Sax Masters: The Music of Coltrane, Cannonball, Bird and More" at 8 PM on Sat., Dec. 5 at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY. (Snow date Sun., Dec.6, 7 PM.)...
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Arts | Westchester: After 96 Novels, Still Waiting for a Best Seller
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... profiling,” said Mr. Strasser. These are recurring themes in his work. “For me, the influence of Westchester goes way beyond physical locations,” he said, adding, “I did not grow up in a world of yacht and shore clubs, or people taking three or four long-distance vacations a year. Down here in the shore towns, you have these fascinating subgenres of the have-just-enoughs and have-more-than-enoughs.”...
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Spend a Night At the Movies with the Westchester Chordsmen Chorus
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Spend a Night At the Movies with the Westchester Chordsmen Chorus On Wednesday, November 11, at the Westchester Broadway Theatre, the Westchester Chordsmen will perform Keeping Score at the Movies, a magical barbershop performance of America's favorite movie soundtracks White Plains, N.Y. November 4, 2009 -- The award-winning Westchester Chordsmen will hold a special performance...
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After a housing-suit settlement, Westchester voters rebel
PointOfLaw Forum (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I've got a new piece up at City Journal on Tuesday's sensational Westchester County upset, in which GOP challenger Rob Astorino knocked off Andy Spano, the longtime Democratic incumbent county executive, by a convincing 58-42 percent margin. Taxes were a...
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Astorino Unseats Spano As Westchester County Exec
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
In the race for Westchester County, incumbent Andy Spano was seeking a fourth term, but in something of a shocker, he found himself conceding to Republican Rob Astorino. Democrats enjoy a 2-to-1 registration advantage in Westchester, but low turnout had Republican challengers hoping to pull off upsets. Astorino lost to Spano by 16 points four years ago, but as voters cast ballots Tuesday,...
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Stories That Inspire: 100.7 WHUD-FM Children's Miracle Network Radiothon for Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Annual Fundraising Event Scheduled for November 11-13, 2009
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Boys' basketball: Westchester gets national ranking
Varsity Times Insider (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Defending City Section and state Division I champion Westchester is ranked No. 5 in the preseason National Prep Basketball Poll compiled by prepnation.com. Findlay Prep from Henderson, Nev. is ranked No. 1. Santa Ana Mater Dei is ranked No. 8...
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Just Another Westchester Resident Voting For Spano
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Former President Bill Clinton, who has rather pointedly stayed out of the mayor's race, has recorded a robocall for Democratic Westchester County Executive Andy Spano, who is facing a stronger-than-expected challenge from Republican Rob Astorino. Here's the script: "Hi, this is Bill Clinton. if you're like me, you love living in Westchester. One person who's had a real impact on...
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It ain’t me, babe
Likelihood of Success (Free subscription) | yesterday
Revolt in Westchester! Walter Olson explains in an email, “Defeated Democratic incumbent Spano acknowledges the housing lawsuit as one of the three local issues on which the GOP ran, along with taxes and security-detail spending, and also describes his thumping defeat as ‘just an aberration — it has nothing to do with me, as far [...]
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Who filed to run countywide?
Proviso Probe (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... website Green Tom Tresser, Chicago (Lincoln Park/Old Town Triangle), campaign website Sean Burke, Westchester Sheriff (incumbent: Tom Dart) Democrats Thomas J. Dart*, Chicago (Mount Greenwood), Wikipedia Sylvester E. Baker, Jr., Chicago (Chatham), Facebook Republican Frederick Collins*, Chicago (East Garfield Park) Green Marshall P. Lewis, Chicago (Rosemoor) Assessor (incumbent: Jim Houlihan...
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"Spano's Suicide: Housing Plan Doomed County Exec"
PointOfLaw Forum (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The New York Post has now picked up a slightly shortened version of my City Journal piece on the housing lawsuit that contributed to a voter revolt in Westchester....
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Spano's 'suicide'
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Why did Westchester voters throw out incumbent County Executive Andy Spano in favor of Republican challenger Rob Astorino by an impressive 58-42 margin? Taxes no doubt ranked high as an issue. But it didn't help that residents felt strong-armed i...
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All Politics Is Local -- By: John Derbyshire
The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
One of the biggest upsets at the local level in Tuesday's election was the defeat of liberal Democrat Andrew Spano by Republican Rob Astorino in deep-blue Westchester County, N.Y. How did this happen? Walter Olson spills the beans . The federally brokered ["affordable housing"] settlement is itself of interest far beyond Westchester, if only as the occasion of a truly remarkable...
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Taconic Parkway Crash Mom’s Remains Finally to Be Retested
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
After Diane Schuler drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway and killed eight people because — according to the Westchester medical examiner — she was drunk and high , her husband and family vowed to clear her name. “She wasn’t an alcoholic,” her husband Danny Schuler says. For months, the family’s representatives have said they intended to do new...