Dick Hubert’s Worldview: In 2026 it will be just 250 years since the Declaration of Independence!
How young a nation we are, still with growing pains
You can never stop studying and understanding history. Especially our own.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Two huge stories impact our local communities
You may be reading about them here for the first time
This week: a focus on two huge local stories with national implications—both stories having been covered exclusively by media to which you may not subscribe.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: A collection of unwanted news bulletins
But save a cheer for the Olympics
Do you wake up each morning and check whatever device you have for the overnight news to see how drastically your world has changed?
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: An overview of the local real estate scene— what’s being built, what isn’t, and why
There’s nothing like being asked in person by two groups of Westmore News subscribers for the latest on a subject near and dear to their hearts—the local real estate scene. It’s a genuine concern on the minds of every condo and homeowner in our circulation area. Hence this column.
TSA brings its PreCheck enrollment to Westchester for a one-week test
The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP), which used Westchester County Airport (HPN) on June 28 as a temporary one-day enrollment center for their Trusted Traveler/Global Entry program and bring their TSA PreCheck in-person enrollment process to HPN for a week from Aug. 5-9.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: The Microsoft/CrowdStrike meltdown: A harbinger of future tech disasters?
Did the dramatic events on computer screens worldwide last week scare the living daylights out of you?
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: The anguish is excruciating as Democrats face doomsday polls
The assassination attempt on Trump makes it worse
That cry of anguish you hear? It’s not from the followers of Donald Trump. They are exultant. The failed (thank goodness) assassination attempt has rallied his supporters to the point where some feel divine intervention saved his life.
DeCicco & Sons to open in summer 2025 on site of old Stop & Shop in Glenville
Rye Brook and Port Chester residents who enjoyed frequenting the Stop & Shop in the Glenville, Conn. Shopping Center for decades will be happy to learn that a new supermarket will be taking its place—but they’ll have to wait until next summer to shop there.
County wins federal lawsuit mandating air carrier JSX use main HPN terminal
Appeals process could delay resolution for indefinite period
JSX, the self-described “ public charter service” that currently sells up to 30 seats on Embraer jets which fly out of the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) side of Westchester County Airport (HPN), lost a lawsuit July 1 it filed in Federal District Court in White Plains against the County Government, which insisted its Terminal Use Protocols (TUP) demanded any air carrier selling more than nine seats on a scheduled flight use the Main Terminal.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Joe Biden was a wonderful President; sadly, he’s not up to the job anymore
So, how are you feeling since the end of the Biden-Trump debate on June 27?
Breeze adds new HPN routes; now serving 11 destinations
Breeze Airways is expanding its service from Westchester County Airport (HPN).
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Mondaire Jones tries to avoid chaos while steering his political career
Less than an hour after the polls closed, the New York Times proclaimed: “Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, one of Congress’s most outspoken progressives, suffered a stinging primary defeat on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, brought down by a record-shattering onslaught from pro-Israel groups and a slate of self-inflicted blunders.
Global Entry enrollment arriving for one day experiment at HPN
For the first time ever, “conditionally approved” applicants for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Global Entry program will be able to have their final in-person interview for approval at Westchester County Airport (HPN) on Friday, June 28, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the third-floor conference room of the main terminal.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Evictions in Rye Town Courtrooms; untold misery with one bright spot
If you are a subscriber to the Westmore News, the odds are you have a good clean place in which to live. Be grateful that you’re not one of the Rye Town residents who is renting a dilapidated apartment and, worse yet, has fallen behind on paying your rent.
BARK Air and County end lawsuit
Settlement stipulates no more than 9 humans on a flight
Humans and their dogs will be able to fly on BARK Air out of the private Fixed Based Operator (FBO) side of Westchester County Airport (HPN) as long as no more than nine humans are on board BARK’s chartered Talon Air 14-passenger seat Gulfstream Aerospace GV jets.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Cacace vs. Wagstaff: a crucial County race for Democratic District Attorney nomination
Are you inundated with political flyers in your USPS mailbox in advance of the June 25 Democratic primary?
Anatomy of a dogfight
BARK Air flights for humans and their dogs now landing at HPN contrary to Terminal Use Agreement; County files lawsuit
Bark Air and Westchester County, the owners of the Westchester County Airport (HPN) where BARK Air flights with dog owners and their canine pets now land and take off for the West Coast and England, are in a dogfight.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Culture shock: Longtime Rye Brook resident and civic leader moves to Upstate MAGA country
Jeff Diamond and his wife Kozue lived in Rye Brook’s Blind Brook School District for 30 years and raised three children grades K-12, with Diamond serving on the Blind Brook school board for nine years, including time as president.
Water rates will rise 5.9% a year through December 31, 2027
Percentages could be higher when WJWW filtered water costs are factored in
Your water bill will be going up 5.9% a year through Dec. 31, 2027—minimally.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Bowman vs. Latimer in a debate and a race for our political souls
Did you watch THE DEBATE?
JetBlue to fly to Puerto Rico from HPN starting Oct. 27
Senator Chuck Schumer claims credit for the new service
JetBlue will offer Westchester County Airport (HPN) travelers non-stop commercial flights to Puerto Rico for the first time by any airline starting Oct. 27.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Ukraine is struggling to stop a renewed Russian invasion
Where are student protests on campus and at the Russian Embassy and consulates?
Let’s all turn our attention to Ukraine.
Redevelopment process for Arrowwood site starts with Charles Cohen fully involved
Mayor Klein pledges total transparency ‘to make sure we’re getting this right’
Charles Cohen, the entrepreneur and owner of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation and Cohen Purchase Building Company LLC, looked relaxed, smiling and shaking hands before taking his seat and waiting to speak. His attorney, David Steinmetz, of the firm Zarin & Steinmetz LLP in White Plains, seemed anxious to please and get on with the job.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: France’s Macron speaks dark truths about Russia, Europe, and the West
Media exclusives aren’t usually front page news. But last week, at least in this country, TIME Magazine’s cover story interview with former President and current presumed 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump made headline news wherever I looked.
Breeze Airways adds seasonal flights from HPN, including Portland, Maine
But says no hope yet of returning nonstop LAX service
Breeze Airways is reinforcing its presence at Westchester County Airport (HPN) this summer with several “seasonal” additional destinations.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Liberal America vs. authoritarian America: the ultimate decision comes down to us
The prospect of anti-Israel, anti-Gaza war, and pro-Palestinian protesters turning Chicago’s streets into a 1968 rerun is giving me nightmares.
Will there be commercial flights for dogs and companions out of HPN?
A highly publicized announcement questioned by County officials
On Apr. 11 a publicity release went out on the nationally distributed Business Wire and was picked up everywhere in the country where media of any kind were looking for a happy story.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: The Tortured Columnist’s Department or…thoughts demanding expression
With a nod to Taylor Swift’s new double album “The Tortured Poets Department,” this column is a tortured columnist’s (with an apostrophe “s”) recognition of a welter of thoughts demanding expression.
Breeze corrects HPN tech snafu for listing flights on public boards
Local travelers on Breeze Airways can finally see arrival and departure information for their flights on the Westchester County Airport (HPN) arrivals and departures board, both at the airport and on the HPN website.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: An 1899 underground hydroelectric plant built in 16 months—could it be done today?
Travel is broadening, as the old saying goes, especially in your own country.
County Legislature approves land swap to pave way for water filtration plant
Latimer says he will sign the bills but emphasizes there will be no airport expansion
The Westchester County Legislature voted 15-1 Monday evening, Apr. 8, to approve the County Airport land swap with Westchester Joint Water Works (WJWW) which would allow that utility to build its court-mandated water filtration plant on a 13.7-acre parcel of land adjoining Purchase Street and the Quaker Friends Meeting House.
Dick Hubert's Worldview: Will we be silently watching as Russia rampages through a weakened Ukraine?
The headlines for news stories out of Ukraine as I write this column are downright terrifying—and I use that word advisedly.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Threats to Israeli and Jewish life that are internal, not external
Could the biggest threat to Israel’s future be not Hamas and its terrorist allies, but an ugly split in Israeli society? Are the American media and the Jewish community in this area uncomfortable looking at the same forces threatening Israel internally that are mirrored here? Two major stories in our mainstream media prompt these questions.
Cohen Brothers Realty defaults on debt tied to properties including Arrowwood
Billionaire Charles Cohen’s redevelopment of the former Arrowwood property is troubled by massive debt, according to a carefully researched story on the real estate website Real Deal by Suzannah Cavanagh published Tuesday, Mar. 26.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: An historic woman pioneer’s story in the long haul trucking industry
Women’s History Month is drawing to a close, but not before I give a special salute to one of the pioneer women long haul truck drivers in the United States, Kathy Dyson, who with her husband and driving partner Ed is a “two million miler”—an elite status in a profession crucial to the U.S. economy.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: A Rye Brook real estate agent tells it like it is in a mailing!
Plus turf vs. grass and Belmont vs. Dionisio—again
There’s a socio-economic wall around the Blind Brook School District that is both painful and necessary to discuss.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Witnessing a major historical moment: long neutral Sweden finally joins NATO
It’s a moment in history I never dreamed, as a young man, I would ever see.
Delta to drop Fla. flights out of Westchester
Delta Airlines, which on Nov. 10 decided to compete with JetBlue out of Westchester County Airport (HPN) by flying once daily nonstop flights to both Orlando and West Palm Beach in Florida, is ending the experiment on May 6.
Joan McDonald teams with April Gasparri to oversee County Airport policy, operations
McDonald discusses current airport issues—from the Master Plan, to parking, to lawsuits, to agreements with airlines
April Gasparri, 47, a West Point graduate and Afghan combat helicopter pilot with an MBA in Global Management from Rutgers and until recently the first woman in Westchester County history to be the general manager of Westchester County Airport, has a new and more powerful County job.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: A ‘hair on fire’ moment for me and the majority of Americans
Have you heard of Project 2025? I try to keep up with news and events and political developments, but I confess Project 2025 (www.project2025.org) was not on my list of news alerts until last week, when a rather alarmed friend e-mailed me to get my take on it.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Fears for Ukraine as NATO wonders about U.S.; plus Latimer-Bowman
Will the U.S. government come to a crashing halt because Republicans in the House refuse to vote on the budget?
County legislative hearing produces surprising news in WJWW plant fight
On the County Legislature’s schedule, it looked like a routine hearing.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Reflections on paradise lost in Hawaii—and other threats
Here’s why I am sad after returning from Hawaii for a brief vacation there—thanks to a round-trip cruise from San Diego. Now our 50th state, and formerly a U.S. territory and independent nation, the Hawaii of our dreams, memories, and imagination is being bled dry by economic forces seemingly beyond its control.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: A visit to the ‘Mighty Mo’ battleship prompts historical reflection, and more
Nothing is more bracing for American citizens than to remember the last “hot” war we successfully fought to victory: World War II.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Unexpected events on a cruise and the national political scene
In my naïveté, it sounded like a great idea. Why not take a break from the harshness of a February winter in these environs by booking a round trip cruise to beautiful Hawaii from San Diego?
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: E. Jean Carroll, Donald Trump and a national reckoning
Somewhere in Westchester County, maybe in our circulation area, there’s a juror in the latest E. Jean Carroll/Donald Trump courtroom drama whose decision (with fellow jurors) I celebrate and whose anonymity it’s crucial to protect.
JetBlue to end HPN service to Martha's Vineyard
As part of an effort to improve profitability, JetBlue is cutting its seasonal service from Rye Brook's Westchester County Airport (HPN) to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Are you as worried about Israel, Hamas and Middle East developments as I am?
Can we talk about Israel this week? Are you as worried about Israel’s future as I am?
Dick Hubert’s Worldview How to change your voter registration for the 16th Cong. District Dem. Primary
In last week's column I suggested that readers who are registered independents, Republicans, or even Conservatives and want to have a say as to who our next Congressperson will be will have to change their registration by Feb. 14 to be eligible to vote in the Democratic primary June 25.
County battles ‘charter’ air carrier over private vs. public terminal use
Westchester County and Delux Air Charter are engaged in what for Delux is an existential battle for their very survival as a business operating out of Westchester County Airport (HPN) and for the County a “do or die” legal struggle to maintain control of commercial airline activity at HPN through its Terminal Use Procedures (TUP).
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