By Melissa McGlensey, May 28, 2014 Griffin Furlong, from Jacksonville, Fla., has faced more trials than your average high school student, and yet he still managed to triumph over adversity and succeed. The teen lost his mother to cancer...
By Robbie Couch, May 22, 2014 Letting homeless people sleep on the streets has never made sense morally. Now, more evidence has surfaced showing it doesn’t make much sense financially either. “The numbers are stunning,” Andrae Bailey, the CEO...
By Emily Badger, May 19 The foreclosure crisis increasingly looks like a public health crisis, too. Researchers have connected foreclosures to depression, stress-related illnesses and spikes in emergency room visits. Last week, The Washington Post’s Dina elBoghdaddy wrote that...
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli told a crowd of nearly 100 bankers, realtors and others involved in Westchester’s real estate industry that despite a rebounding real estate market, its becoming harder and harder for some New Yorkers...
Michael Kaplowitz – May 12, 2014 It is important for Westchester County residents to understand the Board of Legislators’ negotiations with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding the 2009 federal housing settlement. On April 23,...
By the Editorial Board May 1, 2014 Politicians’ bitterly defying the federal government over racial desegregation is an old American story, but not a dead one. You can find it in 50-year-old black-and-white newsreel clips. Or you can go...