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June 15, 2008 Highly Taxed and Fed Up, Rebels Won’t Just Eat Cake By JOSEPH BERGER GREENBURGH THE revolution has begun. On June 2 — remember that date; you may someday celebrate it with fireworks and barbecues — 70 sons and daughters of Westchester gathered in Town Hall here to overthrow the county government. These Minutemen wannabes were not violent sorts, broke no laws we know of. The most aggressive thing they did was come up with a funny name for a Web site they plan to create: Wastechester.org. But make no bones about it: They did vigorously and harmoniously...

VIDEO UPDATE: Female Blogger Attacked by Peace Thugs Written by Melanie Morgan    Tuesday, 25 March 2008 Peace Thugs. There is no other way to describe the people who terrorize Churches in Chicago, who splatter blood, human feces, and fire paint bombs loaded with glass at pro-troop supporters across the country. These incidents are well-documented in Move America Forward's 'Sedition Report' on-line at www.moveamericaforward.com.  The violence hit closer to home in Berkeley, Ca. where our pro-troopers were shoved, pushed and battered with peace signs by anarchist groups like Funk The War, The World Can’t Wait, Global Exchange, and International A.N.S.W.E.R. two months...

The weather on this mid-February Saturday was near perfect. I arrived early to see many new faces among our crowd and recurring favorites! I am ever inspired by the tenacity and commitment of our group - all of you are my rock! One gentleman, Dan, and his son drove from Maryland to participate in our weekly victory rally. His son, John, is scheduled to start his basic training at Ft. Benning this coming Wednesday. The membership of the CCPM extends a heartfelt 'good luck' to John as he embarks on his chosen career. We also look forward to standing...

This morning, Bill Bennett had a caller who organizes counter-protests supporting of our military in West Chester, PA. I'd like to support his efforts by showing up, too, but I'm having trouble getting any information on the counter-protest group. He mentioned that he worked in conjunction with Gathering of Eagles. I was unable to find anything on their site. Does anyone know how I can go about finding this guy's contact info? I don't even know where or when they demonstrate. Thanks in advance.

YONKERS, Oct. 31 — Republicans are challenging the right of thousands of registered voters in the local State Senate district to cast ballots on Nov. 7, charging that these voters do not live at the addresses listed with the Westchester County Board of Elections. The dispute set off a war of words between the district’s longtime incumbent, State Senator Nicholas A. Spano, and his Democratic rival, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, whom Mr. Spano beat by just 18 votes in 2004, after a contentious recount that lasted three months. John Ciampoli, a Republican lawyer who handled the recount for Mr. Spano two years...

Gov. George Pataki remained hospitalized Monday nearly a week after undergoing a surgery to correct a postoperative complication related to an emergency appendectomy. Pataki, 60, continued eating some food Monday but also remained on intravenous nutrition and antibiotics to reduce the risk of an abscess... `The governor's doctors have indicated that there has been a slow return of normal digestive function because of the ruptured appendix,'' ... Pataki was originally to be released two days after the Feb. 16 appendectomy. ``The governor continues to be in good spirits and is reading, walking around and conducting state business,'' ...

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. A Westchester nanny has been arrested for delivering 14 pounds of marijuana while driving her employers' sport utility vehicle with their one-year-old son inside. Westchester County Police say 24-year-old Sanjay Rodrigues was arrested after police got a tip that the woman was going to deliver pot. Police say they staked out a Dobbs Ferry home about 8 a-m yesterday and saw Rodriques, who worked at that home, pick up a cardboard box from the front of the house. Later in the afternoon, police saw her place the boy in a child seat in the back of the...

A homeless black man told police on videotape that he was fighting a race war and killed a 56-year-old woman at a Westchester County mall last week because she was white. The man, Phillip Grant, 43, appeared in shackles and a bulletproof vest in a White Plains courtroom for a felony hearing Tuesday. In the 45-minute videotape played during the hearing, Grant told police "all I knew was she had blond hair and blue eyes and she had to die." He claimed Connie Russo Carriero "was not an innocent victim _ because she was white." Carriero, a legal secretary and...

...The reactor type used at Chernobyl was inherently unsafe — it has never been used in this country and never will. Above all else, it lacked a containment structure, designed to contain radiation should everything else fail. The only other meltdown in history came at Three Mile Island — whose containment dome completely contained all the radiation released by the meltdown. Radioactive gases were then control-released into the atmosphere over the course of a week. Sounds scary? Had you been standing at the perimeter fence at TMI during this period, you would have received about the same radiological dose as...

(Harrison, N.Y.-AP, June 22, 2005 2:25 PM) _ An 20-year-old man, allegedly intoxicated, is under arrest after allegedly stealing a small plane in Connecticut. The man took two friends on a three-hour joyride early this morning that somehow ended with a safe landing at a darkened Westchester County Airport. County Executive Andrew Spano says that when an airport security car met the four-seat Cessna at 4:15 a.m. and the plane doors opened, a significant number of beer cans spilled to the ground. Police say the plane's 20-year-old "pilot," Philippe Patricio, of Bethel, Connecticut, was arrested with a blood alcohol level...

District Attorney Jeanine Pirro was joined today by Raymond Martinez, Commissioner of New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, to announce the arrests of nineteen members of an international check counterfeiting ring in a joint investigation involving the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles – Division of Field Investigations, New York State Police and Greene County law enforcement. Late last week, members of a counterfeit check ring entered Westchester County and began operating out of three motel rooms at the Saw Mill River Motel, located at 25 Valley...

NEW HAVEN, May 6 (AP) - A New York University senior was arrested on Friday and charged with concocting a $43 million scheme to shuffle bogus multimillion-dollar checks between banks in Switzerland and Greenwich, Conn. Hakan Yalincak, 21, whose parents are major donors to N.Y.U., wept in court as Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis of the United States District Court ordered him held at Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island until a hearing on Thursday. "I have a graduation on Wednesday," Mr. Yalincak said. Mr. Yalincak, a mathematics major from Pound Ridge, N.Y., whose parents donated $21 million to the...

For the second time in a month, a Massachusetts judge ruled against the Albany Diocese's motion to dismiss or move a clergy sex abuse case against defrocked priest Dozia Wilson to New York state. According to Suffolk County Superior Court documents released Monday by attorney John Aretakis, the court denied the Albany Diocese's request and will try the lawsuit, accusing Bishop Howard Hubbard and former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law of harboring a predatory priest. Should the case make it to trial, Hubbard and other church leaders could be called upon to testify, much like Law was forced to testify in...

Just got in from the West Chester Ohio Bush rally and it was wonderful. We had about 50,000 people in attendance, and it was the biggest crowd Bush has had and the state of Ohio has ever seen for a political event. I, my mother, and a friend, arrived around 9:00 AM and were one of the first 20 people in line. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let us take video cameras inside, so I had to go back to the car and put mine away. When I returned, mom was out of line and the Bush campaign had pulled several of...

A Massachusetts judge has denied the Albany Diocese's motion to dismiss or move to New York state a clergy sexual abuse case against defrocked local priest Dozia Wilson. According to Suffolk County Superior Court documents made available this week by attorney for alleged victims of clergy sex abuse John Aretakis, the court will try the lawsuit accusing Bishop Howard Hubbard and former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law of harboring a predatory priest. As a result, Hubbard and other church leaders could be called upon to testify in the case that the Albany Diocese has already reached an estimated $500,000 settlement on...

ALBANY - A local defrocked priest is now the subject of two criminal investigations, one in Boston and the other downstate. The Westchester County District Attorney's Office is in the preliminary stages of launching an investigation into former Albany priest Dozia Wilson, who spent nearly 10 years as a counselor at a Dobbs Ferry treatment center for at-risk children. According to a letter sent from the Westchester DA's office to John Aretakis, an attorney for alleged victims of clergy sex abuse, the Special Prosecutions Division is "anxious" to review any material the attorney might possess related to Wilson. Wilson landed...

Robert Torre lives in Bedford, where the property taxes would choke a horse. He should know. He keeps four on the 4 acres he owns in Bedford Village, where his tax bill this year is $30,000. So when Westchester legislators raised the county property tax levy 8.5 percent last week and promised to raise it an additional 13.3 percent next year if the state blocks their request to increase the sales tax instead, Torre said the choice between the two taxes was, for him, a no-brainer. "It climbs up every year," Torre said about his property taxes, which have about...

(03/07/03) WHITE PLAINS - A member of al-Qaida is reportedly living right here in Westchester and is being sought by the FBI. The FBI has not confirmed whether or not the information seized by the September 11th mastermind Khalid Shayk Mohammed is true. The information reportedly states that three suspected terrorists are living in the New York area. A laptop computer, a cell phone and an address book taken from Mohammed's hideout in Pakistan may have produced new leads that terrorists who may be in New York City or in Westchester remain focused on more destruction, specifically plotting to attack...

<p>WHITE PLAINS — A federal judge ordered Westchester County yesterday to pay a twice-convicted pedophile $2,500 for violating his rights by past refusals to allow him to perform his clown act for children at Rye Playland Amusement Park.</p> <p>But Judge John S. Martin approved the county's park regulation crafted earlier this year that bars convicted pedophiles from obtaining performance permits if their acts are designed to "entice a child to congregate around" them. The ruling allows the county to bar Richard Hobbs from performing his clown act at the county-owned park.</p>

MOUNT PLEASANT — A fast-growing order of Roman Catholic priests that is known for its strict orthodoxy and favorite-son status at the Vatican has proposed building an elite liberal arts university in Thornwood. Westchester University, its working name, would be a proudly conservative Catholic institution, but open to all. Plans call for the Legionaries of Christ to break ground in 2006 and to develop graduate and undergraduate programs for about 3,000 students in five phases over 30 years. The Legionaries, a relatively young order founded in Mexico in 1941, already run 11 institutions of higher education around the world. They...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2002 PR 323-02 www.nyc.gov MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR ILLEGAL STRIKE BY TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg joined by Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner John T. Odermatt, New York Police Commissioner (NYPD) Raymond W. Kelly, Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Iris Weinshall, New York Fire Department (FDNY) Chief of Department Frank Cruthers, Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Chair Matthew Daus and Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor Joel Klein outlined the City strike contingency plan in response to a potential illegal work stoppage by the Transport Workers Union (TWU)."A...

Freethought member angry over lawn signs By RICHARD SCHWARTZMAN and MICHAEL P. RELLAHAN June 29, 2002 BIRMINGHAM -- Just months after a federal judge ordered the removal of the Ten Commandments plaque from the Chester County Courthouse, a complaint about Ten Commandments lawn signs in Birmingham has been filed. West Chester engineer James Brooks, a member of the Freethought Society who assisted in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, said he believes the signs are a deliberate agitation by residents who put up the signs on their own property. In a one-page letter to township Code Enforcement...

Thinking of moving near Phily, PA (Kennet Square) for Employment, wondering if any Conservative Catholic Schools (elementary and High School) were near by.