No, your eyes weren’t deceiving you … that WAS Westchester County Executive Andy Spano in the third row behind home plate at last night’s Yankees-Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium.

Astute county government watchers might have also noticed his companion at left, former Deputy County Executive Larry Schwartz. Schwartz eventually departed, but Spano stayed on through [...]

Reporter Rich Liebson writes:

WHITE PLAINS – Saying he was the true Democrat in the race for Westchester County district attorney, Tony Castro today said he’d submitted nominating petitions with more than 14,000 signatures in support of his primary challenge of incumbent Janet DiFiore.

“The rank and file recognize me as a true Democrat, not the candidate [...]

Reporter Ernie Garcia writes:

The tit-for-tat between the Yonkers Board of Education and Yonkers Inspector General Philip Zisman continues. The debate between the board and Zisman—conducted through letters, press releases and a subpoena—involves a disagreement over whether the school district is a city-dependent entity.

Zisman has argued that the district is dependent and that he has the [...]

Yonkers mayoral spokesman David Simpson just put out the following update on the New York Senate situation and the city’s yet-to-be certified budget:
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Quick update on the senate stalemate as it pertains to Yonkers…

Mayor Amicone has been on the phone with the governor and the comptroller today trying to figure out a way to resolve the [...]

Ossining’s first female judge has been named by Gov. David Paterson to be a state Supreme Court justice in the lower Hudson Valley, Rebecca Baker reports. Ossining Town Justice Francesca E. Connolly, 51, was chosen to fill a Westchester-based state court seat vacated by Justice Jonathan Lippman, now chief judge of the state’s highest court, [...]

Just put the top of this over on the twitter feed (@polhudson) but here’s a longer version of the story for those interested:

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested [...]

Gov. David Paterson has created a task force to “examine the issues and implications arising from police-on-police shootings and confrontations, especially between on-duty and off-duty officers and between officers of different races, nationalities and ethnicities, and how to prevent such incidents in the future.”

Presumably the cases the task force will review will include that [...]

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Happy New Year from all of us at Politics on the Hudson. Here’s the official greeting from Gov. David Paterson:

“On behalf of Michelle and the Paterson family, I would like to wish all New Yorkers a very happy and a very healthy 2009.

“As we move forward to meet the opportunities and challenges of a [...]

Congressman John Hall announced today that his district director, Susan Spear, will take on the additional title of Chief of Staff in the coming term. Spear succeeds Jean Bordewich, who was Chief of Staff in Hall’s first term. According to a press release from Hall, “Bordewich has been named Staff Director of the Senate Committee [...]