Author Archives: wcdc2

Jonathan Bandler | Rockland/Westchester Journal News | July 5, 2024 William Wagstaff III will not stay in the race for Westchester District Attorney, announcing Friday that he was declining to run as the candidate of the Working Families Party. Wagstaff, a ...

Alexis Grenell | The Nation | June 26, 2024 Way back in January, well before AIPAC even spent a dime, the Latimer campaign had internal polls showing him up 10 points over the incumbent: That’s a massive lead for a non-incumbent, which ...

Chris McKenna | LoHud | June 27, 2024 “I think I ran a campaign that was very grassroots-oriented,” Latimer said. “I did a lot of personal campaigning. I was in every corner of the district in the Bronx as well ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s summary of Mr. Trump’s Time magazine interview, stating his plans for a second term, is truly chilling.  Monitoring pregnancies?  But only in red states? That and some history of his fake news claims.  Subscribe to her ...

Tara Rosenblum and Lee Danuff | News12 Westchester | April 24, 2024 President Biden added nearly $44 million to his campaign war chest in March for a total of just under $187 million, which the Biden campaign says is the ...

Rebecca C. Lewis | City & State NY | March 22, 2024 Abortion rights activists gathered in midtown Manhattan at the headquarters of 1199SEIU on Thursday to start the campaign to pass the state Equal Rights Amendment. Although the overturning ...

Alexandra Rivera | Rockland/Westchester Journal News | March 22, 2024 The Town of Yorktown is holding a special election April 16 to fill the vacant town supervisor position left by the death of former supervisor Tom Diana…. The two candidates in the ...

David McKay Wilson | Rockland/WestchesterJournal News | Feb. 20, 2024 As the first case filed under the New York Voting Rights Law, a legal challenge to Mount Pleasant’s at-large voting system carries with it great hopes for the town’s growing ...

After being pushed out of the district by the former chair of the national Democratic campaign apparatus, Mondaire Jones now has their institutional backing as he tries to unseat Rep. Mike Lawler. Rebecca C. Lewis | City & State NY ...

Jonathan Bandler | Rockland/Westchester Journal News | Jan. 23, 2024 Three weeks before Democratic leaders endorse a candidate for Westchester District Attorney the field of candidates has narrowed further. Sheralyn Pulver Goodman has backed out of the race in order ...