Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Good night, and good luck: Ed Murrow’s farewell, and mine
On Mar. 15, 2025, I hope there’ll be the first Saturday matinee performance of the George Clooney Broadway production of Good Night, and Good Luck.
American Airlines is now flying nonstop from White Plains (HPN) to Miami (MIA)
American Airlines now flies non-stop from White Plains (HPN) to Miami, Florida’s International Airport (MIA).
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: A visit with State Senator Shelley Mayer and a tough analysis of NYS school standards
The Fall academic semester is as good a time as any to examine how well our public schools are preparing students for the next step in their lives, be it a college or university or trade school education, the job market, the military, or a year off.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Do young people have a shot at the American dream?
I’d like to involve as many Westmore News readers as possible in a grand experiment this week.
Breeze Airways resumes route from Westchester to Sarasota
Breeze Airways is once again flying from Westchester County Airport (HPN) nonstop to Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla. (SRQ).
Charles Cohen loses former Arrowwood property at foreclosure auction; Fortress Group takes control
Billionaire real estate mogul Charles Cohen’s dreams and plans for a boutique wellness hotel, conference center, apartments and townhouses for 975 Anderson Hill Rd. in Rye Brook are now dead and gone.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Post election thoughts about candidates both local and nat’l who tried our patience
Well. How are you feeling after the election?
Foreclosure looms on former Arrowwood complex and other major Charles Cohen-owned properties
Village of Rye Brook and Doral Homeowners can only watch from the sidelines
Judge Joel Cohen’s foreclosure courtroom in Manhattan Nov. 8 will be the scene of high drama affecting the Village of Rye Brook and the Doral Greens Homeowners Association (DGHOA).
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Messianic crazies who prefer war over peace. Hard questions. Can we talk about them?
The late comedienne Joan Rivers famously asked before her monologues: “Can we talk?”
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.
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.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Vacationing with a medical team
Barcelona, Spain: This city has bad medical vibes for me.
Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Confronting emotional political issues in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
My wife and I have been visiting her family relatives in the Netherlands prior to a cruise we will be taking from Amsterdam to Rome. Last Friday, Sept. 6, one of those relatives and his wife took us to the Holocaust Memorial Monument in the heart of Amsterdam, which opened on Sept. 19, 2021. It’s next door to the Museum of the City of Amsterdam. The memorial is dedicated to “the murder of the Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Netherlands.” And to visit it is heartbreaking.
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.
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