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Kofi Annan, a man who must surely rank second in patience only to Job himself, has resigned his role as UN and Arab League peace envoy to Syria, which is obviously in the midst of a full-blown civil war. Can you blame him? Nobody was paying any attention to his perfectly reasonable peace plan, Syrian President Bashar Assad certainly won't listen to reason, and the regime's twin defenders, Russia...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tuesday issued a veto for which he's likely to take a lot of heat: he nixed a bill that would have made it much easier to place special education students in private religious schools at taxpayer expense. Worse, the bill would have made the religious nature of the schools a significant factor in deciding which children should attend them, based on the idea that students with...

A lot of questions remain about a proposed sports facility that would be built on contaminated land owned by the Town of Greenburgh. Maybe that’s why a vote by the town board has been put off twice in the last week. Foremost, is this a good deal for taxpayers? Is this the best use, or at least the most viable plan, for these seven acres off Dobbs Ferry Road?

Supervisor Paul Feiner sure thinks...

Money in politics usually refers to dollars streaming into campaigns, but sometimes it can mean cash flowing in a different direction. That’s the case for 12.8 million people getting checks this year courtesy of Obamacare.

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to send policyholders refunds in any year during which they spend less than 80 percent of premium dollars on actual medical care....