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Opinion 05/15/12

From the Desk of the DA: Fighting Crime

by Janet DiFiore   Comment

This year marks the fourth anniversary of the Westchester Intelligence Center (WIC), an essential and cost-effective collaboration among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies that work here in ... Read More

Opinion 05/12/12

Suburban Dad: Hovering Helicopter Dads

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (4)

Even during an interlude of contentious elections, gay marriage and intrigue in China--not to mention the first Knicks playoff win since the earth cooled -- this was probably the most provocative headline of the ... Read More

Opinion 05/12/12

Letter: Pound Ridge PTA Supports School Budget

by Colette Down, PRES PTA Co-President   Comments (1)

To the Editor:

BEDFORD, N.Y. — The Pound Ridge community will be heading to the voting booths on May 15 to vote on the Bedford Central School District 2012-13 proposed budget that was recently approved by the Board of Education.

After careful review and consideration, the Pound Ridge Elementary School PTA Executive Board endorses and supports the budget and ... Read More

Opinion 05/02/12

Suburban Dad: High School Redux, in Perpetuity?

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

And so Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino gave his State of the County address a few days ago and it was an insufferable as any throw-in-the-kitchen-sink political address of our modern era, with its ... Read More

Opinion 04/25/12

College Chat: How to Really Win

by Ellen Ring   Comment

This week was the most intense, and to some, most important week of the college year. Greek Week is a time at Villanova when all the sororities and fraternities gather together for lively (and often slightly ... Read More

Opinion 04/22/12

Suburban Dad: Pay to Play, or Just to Wear?

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

News broke recently that the NBA was seriously considering festooning team jerseys with advertisements, just like Major League Soccer, NASCAR and many other sports. What's next?

It wouldn't be a surprise ... Read More

Opinion 04/16/12

Suburban Dad: Stop Me Before I Farm Again

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (2)

At a certain point last year -- I don’t remember when precisely -- I became suddenly and utterly taken with the idea of raising a flock of chickens on my otherwise typical quarter-acre suburban plot.

I ... Read More

Opinion 04/05/12

College Chat: Dressing the Part

by Ellen Ring   Comment

I have a fascination with people and the endless ways they choose to define themselves. In one of my classes, “Madness and Modernism,” we recently spoke of Erving Gofman’s concept of how an individual within an ... Read More

Opinion 04/05/12

From the Desk of the DA: DNA Databank to Expand

by Janet DiFiore   Comment
Opinion 04/04/12

Suburban Dad: Find Time to Coach (Obama Does)

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (4)

Far be it for me turn into a scold… But , considering, who can resist? 

I serve on the local Little League board, where the typical just happened: as we were careening toward opening day, we found ... Read More

Opinion 03/27/12

Suburban Dad: Chickens Are Not Unpheasant

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

It could be my loaded imagination as a chicken owner, but it seems everyone is out to get us. First, there was the headline on this website that instantly had me putting up a squawk:

“New Rochelle Council ... Read More

Opinion 03/21/12

Suburban Dad: Spring Forward and Shirk Back

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

Spring is upon us, which for men around the house means only one thing: report for duty. There are endless chores to tackle.  But there are two types of men who do chores. There are the earnest and ... Read More

Opinion 03/20/12

College Chat: Jamaica Wins

by Ellen Ring   Comment

I recently took part in that rite of passage known as Spring Break. Though the trip was beautiful and fun for most of us, the interesting story belongs to my friend Kat, and she has given me the authority to tell ... Read More

Opinion 03/14/12

Suburban Dad: (Plenty of) Sex in the Suburbs

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

A suburban madam? Constant busts of local nail salons as fronts for sordid activity? What in the wide, wide world of sin and transgression is going on in our good, clean suburbs?  You used to think of “Sex ... Read More

Opinion 03/09/12

From the Desk of the DA: Senior Phone Scams

by Janet DiFiore   Comments (3)

We all know that con artists succeed by manipulating and taking advantage of people, and some recent phone scams targeting seniors in Westchester remind us that we should always be vigilant. As District Attorney ... Read More

Opinion 03/08/12

Opinion: Buchwald Earning Trust of Northern Dems

by Kevin Foley   Comments (1)

To the Editor:

Bob Sullivan, vice-chair of the Lewisboro Republicans, recently complained in a letter about the enthusiasm the Democratic parties in Chappaqua and White Plains have for State Assembly candidate David Buchwald ("Opinion: Reader Wary of Endorsement", 3/1/2012). Mr. Sullivan clearly has never heard Mr. Buchwald and is not familiar with Buchwald's ... Read More

Opinion 03/07/12

Suburban Dad: Crazy for Feeling so Country

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (2)

Is Dixie rising in Westchester and Connecticut? Every time I turn the radio on these days, I wonder. After all, on the public airwaves in the suburban ring around New York, we’re accustomed to Top 40 pop, album ... Read More

Opinion 03/07/12

Nature Watch: Which Birds Adapt to Climate Change?

by John Hannan   Comment
Opinion 03/01/12

Opinion: Reader Wary of Endorsement

 Comments (1)

To the Editor:

The enthusiasm with which Democratic leaders in White Plains and Chappaqua have endorsed David Buchwald, a tax attorney and member of the White Plains Common Council, as their choice to run against Assemblyman Bob Castelli in the newly renamed and gerrymandered 93rd Assembly District should be a cause for alarm among northern Westchester ... Read More

Opinion 02/28/12

Suburban Dad: If PTAs Were Run the Dad Way

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

“What was once an easygoing volunteer group has begun to give way to male leadership,” said The New York Times last week, writing about the “changing face of the Parent Teacher Association,” otherwise known as ... Read More

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