This past Friday evening I found myself in a hotel room in Albany, feeling like I’d just been propelled through something akin to a time warp. I’d just stepped away for a few minutes from a New York Press Association
Read MoreSample from our Examiner+ newsletter It was 2006, and I was a reporter at the now-defunct North County News newspaper, reporting on a story out of Yorktown. I was tasked with covering a press conference where the star of “The
Read More, Messy Marijuana Rollout Disrupts Budding Industry, Creates Logjam Like most surgeons, accustomed to directing the action, Dr. Stanley West was a commanding presence. A Vietnam veteran and father of two sons, West raised a family in Bedford, and
Read MoreA lot has changed since Anthony Ciarletta’s first day of employment at a pharmacy. It was the early 1980s, and he was only in the fourth grade. Ciarletta tagged along for work that day with his dad for a lesson
Read MoreThis is a sample from our Examiner+ bonus newsletter Let’s kick off today’s newsletter with a little shout-out to the local baseball and softball communities in the Mount Kisco/Bedford area. Organizers joined forces to schedule a joint clinic for this
Read MoreEmotions ‘Run the Gamut’ in Family’s Hunt for Healthy Organ Gail Jasne, who is battling end-stage liver disease, received dark news about a week ago that also could have potentially delivered her light. Her phone rang and a friend was
Read MoreThis is a sample from today’s Examiner+ newsletter As we hurdle ever closer to spring, The Examiner is busy collecting nominations from local athletic directors for our Athletes of the Season awards, sponsored by Club Fit. We’ll be picking finalists
Read MoreRebuilding Robust Local News Industry Requires Public Action Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur remembers a moment from his cub reporter days in Brooklyn when the potency and importance of the local press emerged for him in vivid display. He was assigned
Read MoreSample from our Examiner+ newsletter I’m excited to participate as a member later today in a meeting of an organization named Rebuild Local News and report back what I learn. A nonprofit, the group is advocating for public policy designed to
Read MoreYou’ve probably read and seen plenty of coverage about new artificial intelligence platforms – articles and segments showing people experiencing the jaw-dropping capabilities of services like ChatGPT while analysts forecast all manner of danger and opportunity. In some research I
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