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Westchester Launches Campaign to Attract New Businesses
A new pamphlet from the Westchester County Office of Economic Development is titled “Grow,” with a front cover photograph of a person holding a patch of soil with a small plant. On Monday, county officials touted their efforts to grow businesses in Westchester. It is part of a new marketing campaign to promote Westchester as [...]
Astorino Touts Court Ruling in Housing Settlement Dispute
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on Monday praised a recent decision by a federal magistrate who ruled landlords did not have to accept vouchers as part of the county’s housing settlement. U.S. Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein found that the settlement did not obligate the county executive to sign source-of-income legislation passed by the board of legislators [...]
HUD Pulls CDBG Funds from Westchester
Housing and Urban Development has pulled more than $4 million of federal funding from approved community development block grant (CDBG) projects in Westchester after it rejected the county’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. The analysis, submitted by the county on July 11, was supposed to identify problems and determine solutions that would assist [...]
Astorino Vetoes Redistricting Plan
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino on Thursday vetoed the controversial redistricting plan approved last week by the Board of Legislators, expressing some of the same concerns voiced by the League of Women Voters. Calling it “flawed” and “rushed,” Astorino said that in less than three weeks the board managed to introduce the new districts, hold [...]
Dems Call for Oros Dismissal; Cite Reference to ‘Bad Santa’
County lawmakers are demanding that George Oros, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s chief of staff, be terminated because of e-mails he sent out that Democratic legislators say are offensive. In the e-mails, which were mistakenly sent out yesterday, Oros refers to Legislator Judith Myers’ (D-Mamaroneck) speaking voice as breathless, and said that Legislator Bill Burton [...]
Pepsi to Stay in Somers
Pepsi Beverages Company (PBC), the bottling division of PepsiCo Inc., will remain in its Somers headquarters, with the help of financial inducements from the county’s Industrial Development Agency and the state. “Westchester’s relationship with Pepsi is a long and proud one and I am delighted that it will continue,” County Executive Rob Astorino stated today [...]
Astorino: County Unions Should Pay Toward Healthcare
County Executive Rob Astorino told business leaders Thursday morning that he intends to pressure unions to have their employees pay a portion of their health care benefits in efforts to reduce costs this year. In the county executive’s annual address before the Westchester County Association at the Westchester Marriot in Tarrytown, Astorino said it is [...]
Lower Taxes, Squabbles Mark Astorino’s First Year
If you listened to Rob Astorino on the 2009 campaign trail, there was one main priority: how to get a grip on spending and taxes that had made Westchester the most heavily taxed county in the nation. Read the full story in the 1-4-2011 issue of The Examiner.
Lawmakers Poised to Override Astorino Vetoes
Claiming that the budget passed by county legislators contains phony revenues, wasteful spending and unfunded liabilities, County Executive Rob Astorino vetoed 247 lines in the 2011 budget last week. But on Thursday county legislators are poised to vote to override vetoes. The Board of Legislators had approved the budget on Dec. 10 by a 16-1 [...]
