This is a reminder: If you missed last week’s “High Noon” radio program on Indian Point, you can listen to the archived recording on this blog. Go to the right side and scroll down to the Lohud-High Noon box and click onto “Indian Point-Counter Point,” and you’ll hear the whole shebang, including the boring commercials.

The guests were Entergy’s spokesman,Jim Steets and Alex Matthiessen, chief executive officer for the environmental group, Riverkeeper. We’ll have them on again, separately. So look for notices on that.

Mike Edelman is one of the “go-to” political pundits in Westchester County, but he really went out on a limb a couple of weeks ago when he predicted that Hillary Clinton would not get the Democratic nomination for president.
Since then, however, his bold claim is looking better and better.

Hillary isn’t doing so well in Iowa. The so-called inevitability theory is losing air, and fast.

Edelman was emphatic about his crystal ball reading when he came on “High Noon” with Jeff Binder, another local political consultant. You can listen to that conversation by clicking onto the “High Noon” radio archive under “Election Post Mortem.” That was a special two-hour edition.

Edelman said Hillary is feeling the pressure to go the attack mode against Barack Obama. “That means,” he said, “their own polling is telling them that she is tanking.”

He cited four reasons why Democrats are taking a harder look at the senator and former first lady.
1. Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton smells like monarchy.
2. Hillary has very high negatives with independents
and in fact in national polls against Republicans she does poorly
3. Bill is unpredictable. (By this I presume he means a headline-grabber, who open his mouth too much.)
4. The only experience she has is as an onlooke, not a policy maker…

Readers of today’s column know that the mentalist “The Aamazing Kreskin” made his presidential prediction in Manhattan earlier today; he wrote the name of his pick on a piece of paper which was placed in a locked box.

We won’t know who he chose until the day after the 2008 election, but Edelman has already looked into the future and that chair behind the desk in the Oval Office will not be occupied by Hillary Clinton.

My “High Noon” radio guests tomorrow (meaning, Thursday, Dec. 6) will be Jim Steets, spokesman for Entergy, the owners of the Indian Point power plant and Alex Matthiessen, chief executive of Riverkeeper.

Amon other ongoing issues, they will talk about Entergy’s efforts to obtain federal relicensing for the controversial nuclear power facility.

“High Noon” airs live at 12 noon on WVOX, 1460 AM. You can also listen in by logging into lohud.com. Listeners may call in at 914-636-0110.

UPDATE: Here’s the podcast of today’s show:

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In today’s column on Dunder Mifflin, the fictional company which provides the backdrop for the hit TV comedy, “The Office,” I mistakenly referred to a now-defunct restaurant off Executive Boulevard in Yonkers as the “Red Rooster.”

No! It was the “Red Robin.” I humbly apologize to the nostalgic fans of that popular eating establishment. I’m glad I didn’t say, “Red Lobster.”

Lori Faeth, a former city employee caught the error.

“Not, only did sales people discuss business there, but so did many city employees and city politicians,” she said of the Red Robin. “Back then, it was a great place to meet up for cocktails and great conversations.”

When it comes to stealing copper, a couple of alleged copper thieves from the Bronx, are pitifully behind the news.

A story in today’s Journal News and Lohud.com reported that the two men were captured by Greenburgh police on Sunday, and charged with stealing $3,000 worth of copper wire off some trucks owned by Asplundh Construction Corp.

Two years ago, this crime would have made sense. That’s when copper, the third most used metal (after irorn and aluminum) was rising in demand, production and price—thanks to the global manufacturing and construction boom.

Copper crooks were in tune with the trend. Right around that time, some friends of mine in Yonkers were awakened from a sound sleep by the noise caused by burglars who stripping their copper gutters and leaders from their house!

But now, copper is dropping in price. Plummeting might be a better word. According to reports, copper futures fell 8.3 percent in the month of November.

Chalk it up to speculation that the credit crunch and mortgage debacle will reduce copper demand in the U.S., which is the second largest copper consumer in the world.