A state Supreme Court justice today ruled that Republican Jim Castro-Blanco can remain on the Conservative Party line in his race for City Council president against Democratic incumbent Chuck Lesnick.

Justice Nicholas Colabella tossed out a challenge to the Conservative endorsement in June of Castro-Blanco. Colabella also ruled against a bid to overturn Conservative Party endorsements [...]

This is from staff writer Jorge Fitz-Gibbon:

Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano will carry the Conservative Party line in next month’s primaries, a state judge ruled today.

In two separate rulings, state Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Colabella dismissed claims in lawsuits by Conservative Party members who said Spano and District Attorney Janet DiFiore, both Democrats, improperly got [...]

If you’ve got $250, Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick wants to have lunch with you at the Chrysler Building in Midtown tomorrow. The event is a campaign fundraiser for the Democrat who is seeking his second four-year-term. He faces a challenge from Republican Jim Castro-Blanco.

The luncheon features Mo Vaughn, the slugging first baseman [...]

Democratic voters in Yonkers outnumber Republicans by more than 2-1, but that doesn’t mean the GOP is going to write off those voters. The Republican Party today opened up a campaign office in Westchester’s biggest city for three top elective offices.
You may think the Republicans are borrowing a page from Howard Dean’s successful 50-state [...]

Yonkers Democratic City Council President Chuck Lesnick outspent his Republican challenger Jim Castro-Blanco at a 4-1 rate over the first six months of this year. Lesnick’s campaign spent $48,164 compared to Castro-Blanco’s $11,170, according to latest campaign financial disclosure records available from the New York State Board of Elections. Even with that big spending lead, [...]

Come Wednesday, journalists and ordinary citizens alike can observe the famous words of Watergate source Deep Throat to reporter Bob Woodward, “Follow the money.”

Wednesday is the deadline for candidates for office in New York state to file their latest campaign contribution disclosure forms, documents which list who is contributing to each candidate, some of [...]

With the city facing the possibility of running out of cash to pay bills and paychecks later this month, Mayor Phil Amicone was on the phone to Albany today. The mayor spoke with state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and staff in a bid to come up with a way around gridlock in the state Senate, which [...]

Republican candidate for District Attorney Dan Schorr is going far and wide to raise money for his battle with incumbent Janet DiFiore, a one-time Republican who is now a Democrat. Starting tonight he’s got a couple of fund-raisers at contrasting venues.

Schorr looks for campaign money tonight in Washington, D.C., with an event at Lounge 201, [...]

Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone is finishing up the first-day of a two-day trip to the nation’s capitol. The visit has the mayor meeting with administation officials and members of Congress in the hope of bringing federal economic stimulus dollars back to Yonkers.

Back in January, Amicone issued a $645 million wish list put together by city [...]

The four-way Republican primary in Yonkers’ 4th Council District that seemed possible last week, now looks like a two-way contest. Gerri Esposito and Ronald Volino say they no longer plan to run in a September primary for the party’s nomination. That leaves Dennis Shepherd, who recently won the Republican committee’s endorsement at a convention, and [...]