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Yorktown, NY
Politics
Ocasio-Cortez To Announce Presidential Endorsement On Saturday, Reports Say
Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to make a presidential endorsement as the Democratic Party's primaries and caucuses near. Ocasio-Cortez reportedly plans to throw her support to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at “Bernie’s Back,” a rally on Saturday, Oct. 19 in Queens in support of Sanders is being hosted by Ocasio-Cortez, a 2007 Yorktown High School graduate. News of Ocasio-Cortez’s support for Sanders comes after fellow so-called "Squad" members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib publicly expressing their support for the longtime senator. It was unclear if they will atte…
DV Plus - Westchester, NY
Schools
Report: Deadliest Mass Shootings Take Place At Suburban Schools
During the past 10 years, the deadliest mass shootings have been at suburban schools, according to several studies. That fact and other disturbing trends prompted Westchester County officials to study the best ways of preventing gun violence. As the 20th anniversary of the Columbine, Colo. shootings approached in April, The Washington Post calculated that in K-12 schools alone, in the two decades since the Columbine massacre, more than 223,000 children have been exposed to gun violence during classroom hours. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, J…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
News
N.J. Congresswoman Joins Call For Trump Impeachment Inquiry
A congresswoman from North Jersey was one of seven freshman Democrats to pen an op-ed in The Washington Post Monday calling for impeachment proceedings to begin against President Donald Trump. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-11), whose district is centered in Morris County and includes parts of Passaic, Essex and Sussex counties, was part of a group who are either military veterans or who worked in some other capacity in national security. Sherrill, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, flew helicopters for the Navy. The lawmakers said in their op-ed that Trump's attempts to get the Ukrainian p…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
News
Report: Climate Change Heating Up N.J. Faster Than Almost All Other States
New Jersey's average annual temperature has risen by nearly 2 degrees Celsius since 1895, double the average for the lower 48 states, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. Of all U.S. states, Alaska's average temperature has risen by the most, followed by Rhode Island and New Jersey. Other states in the Northeast, including Connecticut and Massachusetts, are close behind. A temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is regarded as a critical climate warming threshold. Scientists fear that if average global temperatures rise by 2 degrees above the 1895 average, the conseque…
DV Plus - Westchester, NY
Politics
'Team Mitch' Versus AOC Sparks Twitter Firestorm
A group of "Team Mitch" boys in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky generated a Twitter firestorm when they posted a photograph with a life-size replica of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. One teen pretends to kiss her while another depicts a chokehold. Three others offer a thumbs down gesture. They're clad in matching T-shirts from McConnell's re-election campaign. To Ocasio-Cortez, the photo, posted to Instagram and sent viral on Twitter — implied an endorsement of misogyny. “Are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress…
Fairfield, CT
Lifestyle
Uptick In UFO Sightings Sparks Concerns
A series of recent UFO sightings is beginning to spark concerns among various military organizations, officials say. The U.S. military has claimed an increase in what it calls “unexplained aerial phenomena,” or more colloquially known as unidentified flying objects, in recent years. According to The Washington Post, recently observed UFOs have entered military-designated airspace as many as several times each month. Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for office of the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post that he fully intends to “investigate each and…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Politics
Trump Inflated Net Worth Of Northern Westchester Estate By $241M, New Report Says
A financial statement obtained by The Washington Post reveals President Donald Trump inflated the worth of his Northern Westchester estate by hundreds of millions of dollars. In one “Statements of Financial Condition," obtained by the Post for 2011, Trump exaggerated the value of his 200-acre Seven Springs estate in Bedford by $241 million. In the statement, Trump said the property, “zoned for nine luxurious homes," was valued at $261 million, far more than the roughly $20 million quoted by Westchester assessors. Trump went on to state th…
White Plains, NY
Business
Amazon Now Reconsidering Plans To Open Second Headquarters In New York, Report Says
Amazon may be getting cold feet and be ready to backpedal out of its plan to build a new campus in New York City. In November, the online retailer announced that it has chosen two locations for its new HQ2 project, one in Long Island City, and a second in Virginia. However, according to a new report released Friday, Amazon is reconsidering its choice in New York. "The question is whether it's worth it if the politicians in New York don't want the project, especially with how people in Virginia and Nashville have been so welcoming," one person familiar with Amazon's plans told The Washington…
Yonkers, NY
Politics
Ocasio-Cortez Draws Attention For Meager Savings, Takes Hit From Sarah Palin Over Gaffe
The 29-year-old headed to the House of Representatives who graduated from high school in Northern Westchester is making national headlines -- again -- this time over her meager savings and her knowledge of the Federal government. She isn't rich, but she is a rising political star among supporters and envious critics. Separately, the newly elected New York City congresswoman took a hit from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for misspeaking about the three branches of government. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who graduated from Yorktown High School, heads to the U.S. House…
Stamford, CT
Business
It's Official: New Amazon HQ2 Headquarters Will Bring 25K High-Paying Jobs To NYC Area
In one of the most anticipated business announcements in years, Seattle-based Amazon said Tuesday morning that it will split its second headquarters between the New York City and Northern Virginia. Speculation had swirled since September 2017 when the global giant Internet retailer said it was seeking proposals from cities and metropolitan areas across North America to compete for its second headquarters. The 500,000 square-foot facility known as HQ2 was expected to include $5 billion in private investment and create as many as 50,000 new high-paying jobs. But now comes the dramatic plot t…
Fairfield, CT
Politics
Murphy 'Feels The Bern,' Saying Dems Must Embrace Sanders' Bold Message
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has thought a lot about what happened during the 2016 presidential race and what to do about it. Murphy isn’t shy about suggesting that his party needs to learn lessons from Donald Trump’s victory, according to this interview in The Washington Post. Trump understood that you had to be the candidate who most credibly looked and sounded like a reformer, Murphy said. “He never talked about it in those terms," Murphy told The Post. "But he looked and sounded like the most obvious candidate to change the way that things were done here, and you could a…
Greenwich, CT
Politics
Greenwich's Hope Hicks Expected To Meet With House Intel Committee
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, a 2006 graduate of Greenwich High School, is expected to meet with the House Intelligence Committee this week as part of the Russia investigation, according to CNN. Hicks, 28, was usually by President Donald Trump's side during the campaign, attending nearly every rally as his press secretary, CNN said. The House panel wants to ask Hicks about any contact between other Trump associates and Russians, CNN said. The committee is likely to ask her about the White House's involvement in crafting a misleading response last summer after a June 2016…
