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Liz AndersonLiz Anderson is a local news editor at The Journal News, supervising coverage of southern Westchester County, including the Sound Shore area, and also serving as the paper's point person for education coverage. She previously was a beat reporter at the paper, covering Westchester County government and politics. In prior jobs, the New England native covered the Rhode Island and New Hampshire statehouses and the New Hampshire presidential primary, among other topics.

E-mail Liz Anderson at ecanders@lohud.com

Entries written by Liz Anderson

Not all of you, just *him*

August
7

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When you work on a campaign, you have to remember there are cameras everywhere, as John Degnan learned this week.

Marcela Rojas reports: “A Republican committee supporting incumbent state Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, is calling on his opponent, John Degnan to apologize [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on August 7th, 2008 | 34 Comments »

Feld picks up PAC support

August
4

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The group New Yorkers for Growth has endorsed Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld’s GOP bid to unseat Democratic state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer. The group’s founders include John Faso, a GOP candidate for governor in 2006, and Ed Cox, who ran for U.S. Senate. [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on August 4th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Widgets!

July
25

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As promised, we have widget-ized our RSS feed of Lohud.com’s politics and government news and installed it over to the right in the blog sidebar. You can grab that widget and install it on your own blog or web page—just click on the tab at the [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 25th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Hispanic voters swing for Obama

July
24

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Hispanic registered voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain by 66 percent to 23 percent, according to a new nationwide survey of 2,015 Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

The center [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 24th, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Hear all about it

July
24

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So we’re launching a few new bells and whistles with Politics on the Hudson. One is the little “listen now” button you’ll see at the top of the posts. If you click on the button a computerized voice will read you the text. [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 24th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

A Giuliani (jr.) lawsuit

July
24

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Dad Rudy wanted to be the leader of the free world. Son Andrew Giuliani wants to be a golf pro, which is why the Duke senior is suing to be reinstated to the university golf team, according to published reports.

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Take a trip to … the Pataki museum?

July
24

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Three former Pataki administration employees have formed a corporation to try to raise money to establish a Peekskill museum named after the former governor, The Buffalo News is reporting.

Here’s the top of their story:

ALBANY — A corporation will raise [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Murtagh calls for “People Power”

July
17

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Yonkers councilman John Murtagh, a Republican candidate for state Senate, plans to propose “shaking up Albany with ‘People Power’” at a news conference today.

Murtagh “will call upon the State Legislature to change the fundamental way it does business by passing a constitutional [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Feld to provide forums, dessert

July
17

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Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, a Republican candidate for state Senate, plans to hold a series of outdoor town hall forums around the district beginning in August “to discuss the growing property tax burden on Westchester families, senior citizens and small businesses, as [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 17th, 2008 | Post a Comment »

Michelle Obama to hold Armonk fundraiser

July
16

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Michelle Obama will be coming to the area next week but it won’t be one of those packed-stadium affairs.

Instead, folks with $1,000 to spend can meet her in a private reception Monday at the home of Mary Ann Koenig and Rick [...]

Posted by Liz Anderson on July 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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