Here Come The Candidate Debates
By Barrett Seaman and Solace Church– In an election year, autumn is debate season, leading off with a big one between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris this past week. That...
View ArticleIt’s Your Money. Come And Get It
By Barrett Seaman– There are plenty of schemes out there that offer free—or at least easy—money. One should always check, as Hastings resident Vivienne Heston did when she received a letter from County...
View Article2024 Schedule For Westchester Candidates Forums
LWVW will be hosting a moderated candidate forum for the U.S. Congressional District 16 race in the November Election. Local leagues throughout Westchester will be hosting candidate forums for...
View ArticleHere’s The Remaining Schedule For Rivertown Candidate Debates and Forums
Saturday, September 28 League of Women Voters discussion of the NY ERA and Film Screening of She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry Ossining Public Library, Budarz Theater 53 Croton Avenue Ossining, NY 10562...
View ArticleElection 2024: The Great Tarrytown Divide
By Solace Church– Tarrytown is the only village in Westchester County that is split between two congressional districts, CD-16 and CD-17. In the current configuration, there are 3,262 voting...
View ArticleMt. Pleasant’s Fight To Stave Off Sleepy Hollow Voting Rights Challenge Is...
By Barrett Seaman– In a perfunctory 5-0 vote at its September 24 meeting, the Town Board of Mt. Pleasant authorized another payment to the international law firm of Baker Hostetler—this time for...
View ArticleThe Citizen-Doctor-Politician Challenging George Latimer For A Seat In Congress
By Barrett Seaman– Dr. Miriam Levitt Flisser, the Republican candidate for Congress in the 16th District, has a life story that fits the classic mold of assimilation into American society through hard...
View ArticleA Novice Challenges Shimsky For Her Assembly Seat
By Barrett Seaman– Alessandro Crocco, 36, of Hartsdale left his native Italy as a teenager, seeking “the American Dream” and leaving behind a nation plagued by “creeping socialism.” In the U.S., he got...
View ArticleThe Once- And Current Congressmen From New York’s 17th Duke It Out
By Barrett Seaman– Most of the current discourse about Artificial Intelligence (AI) focuses on its threat to subvert humans’ control over their own destiny, if not their very existence. Watching...
View ArticleLatimer V. Levitt Flisser: A ‘Proper Dialogue Of Democracy’
By Barrett Seaman– In sharp contrast with the District 17 free-for-all between Mike Lawler and Mondaire Jones, televised the night before on News12, the untelevised League of Women Voters District 16...
View ArticleStewart-Cousins Defends Her Majority Leadership In Replay Of 2022 Challenge
By Solace Church– Democratic New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and her Republican opponent, Khristen Kerr, answered questions addressing climate change, voting access,...
View ArticleThe Working Families Party Disavows Its District 17 Candidate
By Barrett Seaman– You can’t, as they say, make this stuff up. In the days leading up to the June 25th New York State primary, some 200 voters, many of them former Republicans with no prior affiliation...
View ArticleJones V. Lawler CBS Debate: New Venue; Same Old Vitriol
By Barrett Seaman– The second televised debate on Wednesday night between incumbent Republican Mike Lawler and Democratic challenger (and former incumbent) Mondaire Jones on CBS’s local affiliate...
View ArticleTarrytown Justice Sets Sights on Higher Office
By Rick Pezzullo— One of Tarrytown’s longest and most distinguished public servants is looking to serve the community in a higher capacity. Tarrytown Village Justice Kyle McGovern, 58, who has presided...
View ArticleTrump Rally “Garbage” Joke Sparks Controversy In District 17 Race
By Barrett Seaman– Local Democrats, including Mondaire Jones, were quick to denounce Congressman Mike Lawler’s mere presence at Trump‘s Saturday night rally at Madison Square Garden as a sign of his...
View ArticlePrevious Indy Stories About The 2024 Election
In reverse chronological order, here are stories about the 2024 election that have run on this site Trump Rally “Garbage” Joke Sparks Controversy In District 17 Race...
View ArticleTarrytown Voters In Their Own Words
In our small sample survey of Tarrytown voters, conducted on the promise not to attribute views by name, the following observations stood out: On choice for President: 17th District Democrat: “I would...
View ArticleHow Say You, Tarrytown?
By Barrett Seaman and Solace Church– As far back as the late 17th century, citizens of New England towns decided communal matters at “Open Town Meetings,” in which public issues and elections were...
View ArticleThe Other Election Battleground: Stealing Yard Signs
By Jeff Wilson– With polarization and acrimony abounding in this election cycle, it’s not surprising that extreme elements on both sides would resort to guerilla warfare when it comes to campaign...
View ArticleLawler Retains His Seat With Commanding Victory Over Mondaire Jones
By Barrett Seaman– The Paramount Country Club in New City, on the Rockland County side of District 17, turned out to be an appropriate venue for Mike Lawler’s surprisingly robust victory over Mondaire...
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