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Opinion 05/15/12

From the Desk of the DA: Fighting Crime

by Janet DiFiore   Comment

This year marks the fourth anniversary of the Westchester Intelligence Center (WIC), an essential and cost-effective collaboration among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies that work here in ... Read More

Opinion 05/14/12

Letter: Ossining Budget Meets Needs, Cuts Costs

by Kevin King   Comment
OSSINING, N.Y. — TheDailyOssining.com accepts signed, original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com. To the Editor, It's voting time yet again! Not to be confused with the recent infrastructure project bond, this is the annual budget and it comes with a tax increase, so understanding it is important.

On the demand ... Read More

Opinion 05/14/12

Letter: Ossining Budget Preserves School Quality

by Bill Kress   Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. — TheDailyOssining.com accepts signed, original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com.

To the Editor:

As a member of the Ossining Board of Education, I am deeply proud of the work our students, teachers, staff, and administrators do every day. From our winning Girls’ Basketball team ... Read More

Opinion 05/13/12

Letter: Vote for Alice Joselow for Ossining Library Bd

by Janet Pietsch    Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. — TheDailyOssining.com accepts signed, original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com.

To the Editor,

I am writing to urge you to support Alice Joselow for the Ossining Library Board of Trustees. Alice has devoted the majority of her life in Ossining to advocating on behalf of the ... Read More

Opinion 05/13/12

Letter: Vote Yes for Ossining School Budget

by Farai Nyoni and Vanessa Jones-Nyoni   Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. — TheDailyOssining.com accepts signed, original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com.

To the Editor,

The Ossining Board of Education has proposed a fiscally responsible budget that both recognizes the need for programs to ... Read More

Opinion 05/13/12

Letter: Ossining School Budget at Tipping Point

by Sonia Fujimori and Scott Crowder   Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. — TheDailyOssining.com accepts signed, original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com.

To the Editor, 

There is a very important school budget vote in Ossining May 15. It is important both that we keep property taxes manageable and we maintain the ... Read More

Opinion 05/12/12

Suburban Dad: Hovering Helicopter Dads

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (4)

Even during an interlude of contentious elections, gay marriage and intrigue in China--not to mention the first Knicks playoff win since the earth cooled -- this was probably the most provocative headline of the ... Read More

Opinion 05/08/12

Letter: Vote for Levenberg, Case, Yes on Budget

by Dana Levenberg and Dr. Kimberly Case   Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. -- The Daily Ossining accepts signed original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com. 

To the Editor, 

We are announcing our candidacy for re-election to the Ossining School District Board of Education. We would like to thank the community for supporting throughout our previous ... Read More

Opinion 05/08/12

Letter: Vote Yes on Ossining School Budget

by Melissa Shandroff   Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. -- The Daily Ossining accepts signed original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com. 

To the Editor, 

The Ossining Administration and Board of Education have again shown that they
are listening to the community by putting forth a budget that demonstrates fiscal
responsibility ... Read More

Opinion 05/08/12

Letter: Vote Case, Levenberg for Ossining Schools

by Shami Arslanian    Comment

OSSINING, N.Y. -- The Daily Ossining accepts signed original letters to the editor. Letters may be emailed to letters@thedailyossining.com. 

To the Editor, 

I would like to thank Dana Levenberg and Kimberly Case for running for the Ossining school board again this year. Their past service has shown them to be exemplary leaders. They have ... Read More

Opinion 05/02/12

Suburban Dad: High School Redux, in Perpetuity?

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

And so Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino gave his State of the County address a few days ago and it was an insufferable as any throw-in-the-kitchen-sink political address of our modern era, with its ... Read More

Opinion 04/25/12

College Chat: How to Really Win

by Ellen Ring   Comment

This week was the most intense, and to some, most important week of the college year. Greek Week is a time at Villanova when all the sororities and fraternities gather together for lively (and often slightly ... Read More

Opinion 04/22/12

Suburban Dad: Pay to Play, or Just to Wear?

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

News broke recently that the NBA was seriously considering festooning team jerseys with advertisements, just like Major League Soccer, NASCAR and many other sports. What's next?

It wouldn't be a surprise ... Read More

Opinion 04/16/12

Suburban Dad: Stop Me Before I Farm Again

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (2)

At a certain point last year -- I don’t remember when precisely -- I became suddenly and utterly taken with the idea of raising a flock of chickens on my otherwise typical quarter-acre suburban plot.

I ... Read More

Opinion 04/05/12

College Chat: Dressing the Part

by Ellen Ring   Comment

I have a fascination with people and the endless ways they choose to define themselves. In one of my classes, “Madness and Modernism,” we recently spoke of Erving Gofman’s concept of how an individual within an ... Read More

Opinion 04/05/12

From the Desk of the DA: DNA Databank to Expand

by Janet DiFiore   Comment
Opinion 04/04/12

Suburban Dad: Find Time to Coach (Obama Does)

by Marek Fuchs   Comments (4)

Far be it for me turn into a scold… But , considering, who can resist? 

I serve on the local Little League board, where the typical just happened: as we were careening toward opening day, we found ... Read More

Opinion 03/27/12

Suburban Dad: Chickens Are Not Unpheasant

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

It could be my loaded imagination as a chicken owner, but it seems everyone is out to get us. First, there was the headline on this website that instantly had me putting up a squawk:

“New Rochelle Council ... Read More

Opinion 03/21/12

Suburban Dad: Spring Forward and Shirk Back

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

Spring is upon us, which for men around the house means only one thing: report for duty. There are endless chores to tackle.  But there are two types of men who do chores. There are the earnest and ... Read More

Opinion 03/20/12

College Chat: Jamaica Wins

by Ellen Ring   Comment

I recently took part in that rite of passage known as Spring Break. Though the trip was beautiful and fun for most of us, the interesting story belongs to my friend Kat, and she has given me the authority to tell ... Read More

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