I took a brief journey over to the Westchester County Office Building in  White Plains today to see if anybody on the defeated ninth floor was standing at an open window, threatening to jump and end it all. Nothing dramatic was going on.

In fact, it was very quiet.

I ran into Board Chairman Bill Ryan in [...]

They must be singing “Roll Out The Dumpster” up on the ninth floor at the Westchester County Office Building where the Andy Spano team is coming to terms with Tuesday’s stunning results in the county executive’s race.

One of my spies tells me  they’re busy emptying desks and file cabinets and shredding documents like mad.

My informant [...]

We’re going to break down Tuesday’s election in a special edition of  “High Noon” today. What did it all mean?

We’ll try to answer that.

For the first half hour, our phone guest will be Rob Astorino, who won in a stunning landslide over three-time incumbent Andy Spano in the Westchester county executive’s race. On election night, [...]

The truth is nobody thought Bob Hyland had much of a chance to unseat Bill “Boss” Ryan. That doesn’t mean Hyland wasn’t a good candidate.

He was.

A standout at Stepinac High and a star football lineman for the Super Bowl winning Greenbay Packers, Hyland, has long been  a familar face on the local scene. For manyy [...]

The funniest political commercial in the race for county executive was Rob Astorino’s take-off on “Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous.” in which the incumbent Andy Spano is shown living the “life of a rock star”  with all the trappings—champagne,  premium seats at ball games, body-guard drivers and trips to “exotic lands.”  The cheesey imitation [...]

Hmm…for three days the Westchester County Department of Health advised homeowners in my section of Yonkers to boil the drinking water because of “groundwater infiltration” that happened when the pipeline was shut down for repairs.

Of course I ignored the advisory because I rarely drink water from the tap—even if it is Yonkers water which every [...]

Ten years ago, when Westchester County Board Chairman Bill “Boss” Ryan ran for re-election in the  fifth legislative district, his opponent released a last-minute mailer that was so below the belt that it cried out for rebuke.

I slammed Ryan’s Republican opponent, Denise D’Ambrosio, in a Oct. 31, 1999 column that carried the headline, “Campaign flier [...]

The robo-calls are starting.

I just got one from Chappaqua resident Bill Clinton—or maybe it was just a guy disguising his voice. It is Halloween, isn’t it.

Besides, there’s more than few car dealerships around here that hire bad impressionists to appear in radio and cable-TV commercials masquerading as the former first president.  And it’s not all [...]

I’ve just checked Andy Spano’s campaign contributions. It amounts to 126 pages, the length of a short novel. The total take for this election cycle? More than $3 million.

But what the records don’t show is the shadow contributions paid for by taxpayers. That’s the money that goes into bogus press conferences, press releases, mailings and [...]

An RNN-TV and Siena Institute Research poll released tonight shows Andy Spano leading Rob Astorino 48 percent to 41 percent in the county executives’s race. That’s a sevne percentage point spread.

But the good news for Astorinos is that leave 11 percent of the voters up for grabs. The poll has 4.5 percent margin of error, [...]