Commentary on local issues from guest contributors.
By Lisa Katz, Tara Kassal, Andrea Sanseverino Galan and Victoria Bayard Tipp The Town of New Castle is at a significant crossroads. As the community grapples with the need to create a sustainable vision for our town, revitalize our hamlets
Read MoreBy Holly McCall, Lori Morton, Michael Weinberg and Jennifer Bounds Although there are many issues facing New Castle, the Form Based Code (FBC) is rightfully one of the most prominent. More than a mere zoning code, the FBC can enable
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Every time you go to a doctor, you have an unwanted 800-pound ghost in the office, always injecting itself into every conversation about your treatment. That ghost is, of course, your insurance company. The doctor’s goal is
Read MoreBy Lanny Gilbert In order for Yorktown to thrive, we need to grow. Our population in 2010 was 36,095 and in 2019 it was 36,269 – virtually unchanged, according to the census and town data. We need to continue growing
Read MoreBy Assemblyman Kevin Byrne For the past several months, I participated in numerous committee meetings and budget hearings to advocate for more responsible state policy that would put taxpayers first and support essential services that assist public health and safety,
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Have you ever had a wonderful friend for scores of years, who is extremely reliable, then goes completely off the rails and you never hear from him again? Or hard whiskey that suddenly stops getting you drunk?
Read MoreBy Dr. Craig Hametz When the pandemic hit last March, all our medical offices essentially ceased to function as far as our seeing patients. Even if we were open to people coming in, nobody was coming in. So we used
Read MoreBy Rick Wolff Because of the pandemic shutting down my local gym, I’ve been doing a good amount of walking on a daily basis in my neighborhood. It’s a quiet area, and I rarely see anything out of the ordinary.
Read MoreBy Michelle K. Rea State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) and a host of colleagues have introduced legislation that shifts the responsibility and costs of recycling from municipalities to the producers of packaging and paper products. The legislation is called
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Westchester’s battle against COVID-19 has finally been joined. A line about 600 feet long, socially distanced, in the Westchester Medical Center’s Taylor Pavilion in Valhalla, tells a tale of progress against this microscopic apocalypse. It took about
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