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Westchester County is headed to familiar territory with its controversial housing settlement with the federal government: back to court.

That’s where they are already awaiting a ruling on an appeal over a law that would bar landlords from discriminating against tenants based on how they will pay rent. HUD doesn't want landlords to exclude those who use federal Section 8 housing vouchers.

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Batman has been a popular superhero since the 1940s and has defeated many enemies – the Joker, Penguin and Catwoman have all come and gone throughout the series. But early this morning in Colorado, fantasy became reality.

James Holmes, the man in custody for allegedly killing 12 theater patrons and wounding scores of others, became the real-life villain at a suburban...

Rep. Michelle Bachmann is no longer a primary source for national amusement. She has become a cornucopia of idiocy whose bloviating and blathering could only be portrayed accurately in Kristen Wiig's parodies on Saturday Night Live.

The Minnesota congresswoman just sounds nuts.

And in her latest outburst, Bachmann has refined her role, coming across as a witch conducting a witch hunt.

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Ann Romney could be the nation's next First Lady but she'll need a little more coaching if she wants to find a smoother path to the White House.

Responding to a question this morning from ABC's Robin Roberts about why her husband, Mitt, has refused to release more than two years of his income tax returns, Ann Romney added more fuel to the fire surrounding the presidential...

The Task Force on the State Budget Crisis got a lot of things right about the nature and scale of the major fiscal challenges facing states and local governments through the country. In my column today, however, I argue that the task force got it wrong when it identified "eroding revenues" among those challenges.

In New York, one of the six major states on which the report focused,...

Right in the middle of the Long Island MacArthur Airport terminal building on Tuesday night, crowds of curious Islip citizens lined up to look at a series of boards containing the earliest parts of the new airport master plan. The Town of Islip got permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to open it to public view earlier than usual in the process.

That early peek was a good idea,...

There are two medical milestones to applaud in the detection and prevention of the decades-long HIV epidemic now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Truvada.

The revolutionary in-home test kit came early in July, giving those in doubt and at risk of the virus the ability to test themselves discreetly. Then Monday, the FDA approved Truvada, the first pill to reduce the risk...

Following a pledge to meet with people affected by the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today announced two meetings for next week – one in Westchester and another in Rockland.

The Westchester meeting is set for 8 a.m. Wednesday at Berkeley College in White Plains followed by one at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Dominican College in Orangeburg.

In announcing the...

If recent figures from counties in New York State show anything, it’s that sales taxes are largely unreliable revenue sources that often fluctuate with local economic anomalies.

Rockland County, for instance, has seen repeated declines in sales tax revenues, fueling a debate over whether raising the tax actually drives shoppers elsewhere, like across the state line to New Jersey.

It’s...