After spending $150 million on Playland amusement park, Westchester seeks OK to borrow $59M to restore Playland's Ice Casino. The private management deal yields just $325k a year for the county... lohud.com/story/news/loc…

County Legislator Greg Ellner a decade ago put an addition on his home, with the requirement to hook up to the sewer. He built the addition, moved in, but never hooked up, saying it was too expensive.

New Rochelle, which owns part of the Lake Isle Dam, has threatened to dismantle its section of the dam, which would lower the lake by 12 feet, creating mudflats over much of the lake's 62 acres. lohud.com/story/news/loc…

Organizers Fight Lawler say an aide to Rep. Mike Lawler infiltrated their private Signal chat, live-posted 'Boo (Lawler) off the stage' and encouraged Lawler foes to walk out of Somers Town Hall meeting. Did Mike Lawler orchestrate the infiltration? lohud.com/story/news/pol…

Thanks to Josh Marshall for his engaging column on my report about an aide to Mike Lawler and her apparent infiltration of Fight Lawler's private Signal group. Lawler won't say if he condoned his aide's incitement of the Town Hall audience.

A dozen progressive groups call for Mike Lawler aide to resign in furor over Signal chat infiltration while effieforcongress seeks Tish James probe, and a Putnam Republican Frank Ciano wants her fired. lohud.com/story/news/pol…

Mike Lawyer, who said he'd decide by the end of June whether to run for NY governor in 2026, tells Jimmy Vielkind he'll make an announcement "in short order."

Developer Louis Cappelli wants a break on the price for the Galleria parking from White Plains in exchange for 500 affordable apartments, at 60% AMI. Mayor Tom Roach says the request is a non-starter in negotiations over Cappelli's plan for defunct mall lohud.com/story/news/loc…

"Nothing is off the table," says North Castle Supervisor Joe Rende as he wants the town to seek proposals from developers to create public-private partnership for new town hall and police station in Armonk historic district lohud.com/story/news/loc…

Lawler opts to run for a third term in Congress, decides against run for governor. Game on in NY- 17 with 7 Democrats vying for 2026 nomination

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Westchester cracks down on Beeline fare evaders with cops now riding county buses. County considers civil fines of up to $100 for fare evaders as it decided not to arrest fare evaders under the state's criminal laws lohud.com/story/news/loc…

I'm leaving Gannett in early September after 35 years covering the public sphere in the lower Hudson Valley. I'm not done yet. Stay tuned for my next chapter. theexaminernews.com/the-watchdog-i…

My new chapter begins on Sunstack

Democrats say Mike Lawler needs to address the allegations that his aide infiltrated the Fight Lawler group and then stoked divisions using an alias.. Lawler's response was to assail me for reporting on the issue as an independent journalist. substack.com/@davidmckaywil…

After i raised questions for my Substack publication, Yorktown ordered politically connected developer to vacate town land where he was running a rogue commercial parking operation. open.substack.com/pub/davidmckay…

Catucci defies Yorktown order to vacate the commercial parking lot he's running on land he deeded to the town in 2019. He insists he still owns it. And town has yet to follow through on threat to charge him with trespass. open.substack.com/pub/davidmckay…

Jessica Reinmann withdraws from NY-17 race, endorses Cait Conley in still-crowded contest for Democratic line to face Mike Lawler next year. open.substack.com/pub/davidmckay…

Update: Phillips-Stalely preparing to go the distance in NY-17 Democratic battle open.substack.com/pub/davidmckay…

Affordable housing advocate Alexander Roberts says "good cause eviction" laws will have unintended consequences and will hurt the Westchester housing market. open.substack.com/pub/davidmckay…