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Dick Hubert’s Worldview: A list of October surprises drains our emotions in an historic countdown

This is the month for the societal/political October surprise that upends elections and our lives.

Letter: Issues to consider about the Oct. 22 Blind Brook school bond vote

Two weeks ago, the Westmore News published an insightful article about the communications challenges related to a school bond proposal scheduled for a vote on Oct. 22. This letter adds a few thoughts about how to interpret the vote and how to improve communications.

Letter: We need George Latimer in Congress

This election day I will be voting for Democrat George Latimer for Congress in NY16.

Letter: View exhibit on High Point Hospital

If you’ve lived in Port Chester or Rye Brook for a long time, you might remember High Point Hospital, which was on King Street where BelleFair is now. But you also might not remember it, which is why the Historical Society has created an exhibit about it.

Letter: Prop 1: Explaining what it does, and debunking the myths

Suffragists first introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) 100 years ago as an explicit constitutional guarantee of sex equality.

Letter: Vote informed and patriotically

My goal for this letter is to make whoever reads it aware of the statistics that are affecting our country mostly negatively. If these situations remain, we eventually will have our democratic republic disappear.

Everything Under the Sun: The comet cometh

For the first time in almost three decades, a bright comet will likely be seen next week over the skies of Port Chester and Rye Brook.

Letter: Growing our own food, nutrition, and Victory Gardens

In a society where homeowners regard their lawns as sacrosanct, it gave me great pleasure to read that the Fragiacomos could not have cared less about sacrosanctity and turned their lawn on Indian Road into a suburban organic farm.

Letter: Protect our survival against PFAS, please!

I am frustrated to see how New York State hasn’t completely taken action in advocating for the elimination of toxic PFAS chemicals.

Letter: Westmore News owes its readers to drop Dick Hubert’s column

It is time to take the gloves off against the constant vitriol against Republican and Conservative-leaning individuals continually spouted by Westmore News columnist Dick Hubert.

Dick Hubert’s Worldview: County GOP treats 16th Congressional candidate Dr. Miriam Levitt Flisser with contempt, and worse

Dr. Miriam Levitt Flisser called the Westmore News after my column item Aug. 29 asking her to contact me for a campaign interview, as her website had no place to leave requests for interviews or media inquiries.

Letter: The ugly ghost of the Holocaust

On Sept. 29, 1941, German Nazis gathered over 33,000 of Kyiv’s Jews—children, women and the elderly—as their fathers, husbands and sons were already mobilized to the Red Army—and then proceeded to methodically shoot them in Babi Yar (“ravine” in Ukrainian) for three days in a row.

Letter: The UN is useless and headquarters should be moved out of the U.S.

Last week I read a quote from Jane Fonda saying that if Trump is elected, the "earth would burn," and this from the woman that the soldiers during the Vietnam war called Hanoi Jane.

Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Vacationing with a medical team

Barcelona, Spain: This city has bad medical vibes for me.

Fostering Public Debate: Do you know what the Board of Regents is planning?

On Thursday, Sept. 19, I was astonished to find myself the sole member of the public participating in a hearing at the district BOCES office on the New York State Regents’ proposals to change the state’s high school graduation requirements that the Regents will vote on at its November meeting.