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It was one of the worst-kept secrets in Westchester County politics: Ken Jenkins is running for county executive.

The Yonkers Democrat and chairman of the Board of Legislators is going to make it official Wednesday with an announcement in White Plains. But he spilled the beans over the weekend in an e-mail to supporters.

“This Wednesday, January 2nd, I will be announcing my candidacy...

The Senate is on track to approve desperately needed aid for superstorm Sandy, but the fractious House of Representatives could still muck things up. That would be another disaster for the hard-hit region, this one inflicted by the very people elected to help when such epic misfortune strikes.

The Senate is expected to vote on the $60.4-billion aid package late Friday or Saturday. And because...

This is House Speaker John Boehner’s moment, his date with destiny.

With the nation perched on the edge of the so-called fiscal cliff, the President and the Senate returned to work Thursday. The House didn’t. It won’t get back until Sunday. That gives Boehner, the Ohio Republican who leads it, a few days to choose whether to protect the nation’s future or his own.

He has two options....

It was 41 years, 7 months and 26 days ago when Bob Keeler entered Newsday’s Ronkonkoma office, a ramshackle backwater that reporters, their sources and even a few ex-cons who wanted to settle scores entered through a backdoor off a parking lot. It was also a place that forged (that’s the only word to use when investigations czar Bob Greene was your editor) some of the nation’s best journalists.

After...

So the problem isn’t real guns killing real people. The problem is video games and movies, fake guns killing fake people.

That and, of course, the media, who by publicizing slaughter give shooters a path to notoriety.

So says Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, who cited mainstream shooting videogames like “Call of Duty,” as well as ones few have ever heard of, like...

County Executive Rob Astorino made the appropriate call this week when he said a gun show wasn’t welcome back at the Westchester County Center.

The decision not to sign a contract with the organizer comes just two years after the first-term Republican re-opened the doors to the Sportsman, Firearm and Knife Show at the county center. His move reversed a decade long ban started by his predecessor,...

The National Rifle Association ended four days of silence today, releasing its first statement since the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The NRA shut down its Facebook and Twitter pages after the shootings, leaving many wondering how it would respond to the killings. In its statment, the group says that its members were "shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of...

For many months, in the debate over raising taxes on higher-earning Americans, Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) has been saying over and over that the threshold of wealth that has been bandied about, $250,000, is grossly out of whack with reality on Long Island.

That dividing line simply needed to be higher, to reflect the Island's high cost of living, he argued. In fact, he pushed his case...

Hooray for Tim Scott, and South Carolina, and even for Gov. Nikki Haley, who just made  her first good decision in years.

Scott, the 47-year-old Republican congressman from Charleston, was announced by Haley today as her choice to replace Jim DeMint in the United States Senate. DeMint is leaving to run the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, make a few bucks, and get away from his...