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The Westchester Guardian’s federal court win over Yonkers City Hall earlier this month  will cost Yonkers taxpayers nearly $50,000 – a payment that has nothing to do with the tens of millions of dollars publisher Sam Zherka [...]

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Publisher Sam Zherka is opening a new front in his continuing war with Yonkers. Last month a federal court ruling found City Hall had violated the first amendment rights of the Westchester Guardian, when it swept its news racks from [...]

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Westchester Democratic Assemblyman Richard Brodsky said look for two big changes when Lt. Gov. David Paterson fills the seat vacated by Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Speaking on Brian Lehrer’s program on radio station WNYC this morning, Brodsky said Paterson first [...]

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The controversial publisher of the Westchester Guardian has filed a federal lawsuit charging that he was defamed by readers who posted derogatory remarks about him on Politics on the Hudson, the political blog published on The Journal News’s Web site.

Among [...]

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In a decision sharply critical of the city, a federal judge ruled today that the city of Yonkers violated the First Amendment rights of a free weekly newspaper when it swept the Westchester Guardian’s news racks from streets [...]

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Mayor Phil Amicone made another trip to Albany today, his fifth since the release of Gov.Eliot Spitzer’s budget in January. The Republican mayor is meeting with Democratic lawmakers: Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, and state Senators Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Jeffrey Klein. [...]

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The big surprise is not that Yonkers Councilwoman Patricia McDow held a fund-raising last-night event, even though she easily won re-election in November. Elected officials always seem to be in a money-raising mode. What was surprising, though, is the new website [...]

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Q.Who can argue with a plan to put more state police in high-crime areas around the state?
A. Elected officials representing areas in and around schools and “racinos” whose state police presence would be eliminated to provide more [...]

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In the midst of last fall’s mayoral campaign, the Yonkers Board of Ethics admonished Mayor Phil Amicone for using public funds to promote three referendum measures that he had supported during the previous election. The [...]

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Yonkers’ newest council member Joan Gronowski says last week’s public hearing on a massive waterfront redevelopment plan that calls for 18 towers deserved a wider audience than just those who gathered in City Hall’s ceremonial court room. The [...]