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It’s unlikely there’s a single parent, teacher or school administrator that doesn’t want children back in school for live, in-person instruction five full days a week. The question has always been, as this school year has progressed from the late
Read MoreSince October, when many New Castle residents began to realize that their Town Board was seriously considering a major overhaul to the town code for downtown Chappaqua, there have been hours and hours of questions, comments and debate. The encouraging
Read MoreAttention progressives: America, in many critical ways, is a better place than it has ever been. In the 1600s, indigenous people were trampled. In the 1700s, we seeded our nation with slavery. In the 1800s, we endured a great Civil
Read MoreExaminer Media is joining organizations large and small today in endorsing the use of the 25th Amendment or impeachment to remove Trump from office in order to avoid further violence. We’re also asking other like-minded local people and organizations to
Read MoreGoing to the movies has always been one of my favorite things to do. So, when a double feature of “North by Northwest” and “The Invisible Man” was my last outing to the theater before the coronavirus hit, I was
Read MoreWell, the old crystal ball has certainly been tarnished. This time last year it was impossible to envision the upheaval and pain that was in store for so many of us. There was too much loss – businesses, jobs, time
Read MoreIt was the type of text that rocks your world, triggering a thousand thoughts at once. “My diagnostic test came back positive this afternoon,” my longtime colleague and friend Martin Wilbur, The Examiner’s Editor-in-Chief and founding journalistic voice, wrote me
Read MoreI’m here to cheer you up today. To all the people who have spent the past four years dedicating a considerable portion of their emotional energy to the hope that Trump would be rejected in 2020 and are now depressed
Read MoreAs someone with relatively moderate political views, to the left of conservatives on most social issues and to the right of many liberals on the abilities of government to efficiently fix certain problems, as a newsman who usually prefers to
Read MoreWith much of the election year suspense revolving around Washington, D.C., it might be easy to forget some of the races closer to home. It is obvious why most of the thousands of people standing outside polling places throughout the
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