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Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone and City Council President Chuck Lesnick began the city’s lobbying effort to pry loose more money from Albany today, one day after Gov. Eliot Spitzer unveiled his new budget for the state. The two trekked [...]

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Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick says Councilman John Murtagh dredged up the bad old days of the city’s desegregation battle in talking about a shootout that killed one man and wounded another in the city’s Colonial Heights neighborhood Monday [...]

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Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone liked the themes Gov. Eliot Spitzer sounded in today’s State of the State address – property tax relief, rebuilding infrastructure and, most of all, fully funding public education.

Amicone, who went to Albany for the [...]

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Baseball fandom may the only arena more partisan than American politics these days, and few baseball rivalries are quite as nasty as that between the Yankees and the Red Sox.

That’s what makes Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick’s campaign fund raiser [...]

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After two years as Yonkers City Council Democratic Majority Leader, Patricia McDow was bypassed for another term this morning. Instead the Council picked Sandy Annabi to the post. Meanwhile, Liam McLaughlin was named to continue as Republican minority leader. [...]

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You already shovel your sidewalks and scrape your windshield; Now a pair of state legislators from Westchester want to add removing snow from your car’s roof top to your winter to-do list. Assemblyman Michael Spano, D-Yonkers, and state Sen. Suzi [...]

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Some revile him; others love the publisher of The Westchester Guardian. The Journal News/LoHud.com today takes a look at Sam Zherka, owner of some 4,500 apartments and the topless VIP Club in Manhattan, a man who loves to get under the skin [...]

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He’s not been sworn in for a second term yet, but Mayor Phil Amicone is already preparing for Election Day, 2008. With a 60 to 40 percent win over Democrat Dennis Robertson in hand, the Republican is again moving [...]

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Raises proposed for leaders of the Westchester County Board of Legislators are proving to be a big fat softball for Westchester Republicans to hit.

Yonkers Republican Party Chairman John Jacono today called the proposed increases in stipends “bad [...]

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Sam Zherka, publisher of The Westchester Guardian, has targeted two more Westchester municipalities, charging them with violating the First Amendment rights of his weekly newspaper. Zherka and the newspaper’s editor Richard Blassberg filed federal lawsuits against Tuckahoe and New Castle, charging [...]