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Democrats on the Board of Legislators have a message for Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino: You do it.

Lawmakers won’t introduce a piece of legislation -- one that threatened to get Astorino, a Republican, in trouble with the courts -- that relates to the federal housing settlement.

The bill in question would bar landlords from rejecting Section 8 housing vouchers and is one...

Like previous county executives, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has concluded that the county should no longer be in the nursing home business. That general finding makes sense.

He has also concluded that selling the county's John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility in Yaphank can go forward without hurting either the patients are the more than 200 employees. The purchaser has promised...

Wise executives know sometimes they need to postpone a decision. “I just think we need more information before we weigh in,” they'll say.

That’s a litmus test the presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney should institute. The lack of such a standard led the campaign to make an error of fact, an error of judgment and an error of discretion Tuesday night. Yet perhaps such a litmus test...

Commuters in New York City’s suburbs should get their heads around railroad service cuts, increased fares – or a combination of both thanks to a New York State Supreme Court ruling that said a payroll tax was unconstitutional.

Those are part of the findings of a study released yesterday by the Citizens Budget Commission, which concluded that Metro North fares could spike as much as 32 percent...

GoDaddy.com was down for a few hours on Monday, and many of the web sites of its more than 10 million customers were down as well. Credit, if you'll pardon the expression, was claimed via Twitter by someone purporting to be a part of Anonymous, the shadowy and loosely affiliated group of hackers that has struck government and business websites before.

Godaddy, for those who haven't seen its...

Facing down organized labor: it’s not just for conservatives anymore.

In the showdown between the Chicago Public School system and its teachers that led to a strike Monday, Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the point man in the fight against the union. Emanuel is also the former White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama, and just last week agreed to spearhead the president’s reelection...

Just in time for one of the most consequential meetings of the Suffolk County Legislature in a long time, Presiding Officer William Lindsay (D-Holbrook), returns this week to his seat at the center of the legislative horseshoe in Hauppauge.

Lindsay has been recuperating from cancer surgery in May and has not been able to preside at the legislature's general meetings for months. Deputy Presiding...

Finally, the great day has come: This weekend will be the last chance Chipper Jones, one of the most merciless Mets-killers of all time, will ever have to torment the Mets in front of their fans in New York.

The Atlanta Braves are in town for their final visit of the year, and Chipper is coming, too. He has said that he's retiring at the end of the season, and if he really means it, this visit...

If the Indian Point Energy Center were closed, you’d be looking at a roughly $11.5-billion economic impact on the metropolitan area — including an immediate loss of thousands of jobs.

That’s the conclusion of a report published Friday by the Business Council of Westchester, a business membership organization. The report says some of those losses include $200 million in wages, $75 million in...

11:15 p.m. - As the DNC ends, and the entire convention season draws to a close, what have we seen?

Honestly, and opinionatedly, the Republicans had a fairly good convention. The Democrats had a very good one. Part of the difference was the energy levels, but part goes deeper than that.

By cutting taxes and raising spending as much as he did, President George W. Bush did extraordinary...