U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, was at a Mobil gas station in Yorktown Heights today to talk about how he would lower the price of gas at the pump by 24 cents a gallon.

Hall and 93 other Congress members have urged President Bush to stop buying oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for [...]

Every three months, from the start of the war in Iraq, Greg Mitchell, editor of the news industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher, would write a column asking when a major newspaper was going to call for a pullout.

It never happened, until last year, said Mitchel, who speaks tomorrow at the Nyack public library. His [...]

Carmel Councilman Carmine DiBattista won the endorsement of the Carmel Republican Committee in his bid for the Putnam County Legislature seat held by Robert McGuigan, R-Mahopac.

McGuigan, a legislator since 1997, has announced he will not seek reelection.

“Just as I worked as part of the group on the Town Board to resolve long standing issues, I [...]

Congressman John Hall, D-Dover Plains, vowed today to fight plans by President Bush to leave “hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq for the indefinite future.”

Bush wants to put in place a “Status of Forces Agreement” before he leaves office that would tie the hands of the next president by establishing permanent bases in [...]

Amidst talk of severe cuts in services in Putnam in 2009, the Putnam Council Coordinating Council for People with Disabilities and the county Office for People with Disabilities will hold their annual forum with federal, state and county legislators on March 29.

The forum gives people with disabilities and their families an opportunity to talk directly [...]

Putnam Legislator Vincent Tamagna, R-Philipstown, has proposed the formation of a Philipstown council of governments to look for ways to consolidate services and thus save money.

The council would include representatives from Philipstown, the villages of Cold Spring and Nelsonville, the Garrison and Haldane school districts and Putnam County.

“We must make every attempt to rein in [...]

The Ethical Culture Society in White Plains will host a forum tomorrow on legislation pending in the state Senate and Assembly, including the Rockefeller drug laws.

Robert Perry, legislative director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting that starts at 7 p.m. at the Ethical Culture Society, [...]

The majority Republican Putnam County Legislature has backed sweeping tax reform legislation for school funding sponsored by Democratic state Assemblyman Kevin Cahill of Kingston.

The bill would call on the state to assume all education costs that would be paid for by taxes on personal income and business instead of real property taxes.

“The public is [...]

Westchester and Putnam residents plan to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War tomorrow with rallies at several locations.

No War Westchester, Code Pink Westchester, the Westchester Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence and others will demonstrate for an immediate end to the US military occupation of Iraq and federal spending for domestic needs.

The [...]

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and U.S. Rep. John Hall are urging Watson Pharmaceuticals to keep its facilities in Putnam County open.

Watson announced this week it would move its manufacturing plant in Carmel to India, Florida and California by 2010.

The second-largest private employer in Putnam, Watson employs about 570.

Today, in a personal letter to Watson [...]