I agree that the talks should continue to get a fair contract in place but what leverage does management have against the union, but a lockout? If the union has a strike threat as leverage against the company, isn't a lockout the counterbalance to that power. Fair collective bargaining does not give one side an advantage. As for cheaper electric rates you do not have to go to New Mexico but simply drive north to Bedford and beyond, they have rates at 40% less then Con Edison. Property values and taxes are not that much different. Are New York State Electric and Gas employees in a different union than Con Edison? View Comment

Unless you are in the room where contract talks are taking place no one knows the truth about the contract offered and rejected. Whatever you hear from either side is not the truth. What I do know is my electric and gas rates are one of the highest in the state and maybe the nation. Con Ed's labor structure has something to do with that, more than the CEO's pay. View Comment

Why does Con Edison have one of the highest rates for electricity in New York? Does the cost of labor have anything to do with it? View Comment

What does Eliot Spitzer and Bill Clinton have in common? Both have been involved in sex scandals and Sean Patrick Maloney has worked for both. Is there a Democrat candidate that is not an ethically challenged lawyer? Maybe that was Dr. Beckers problem. View Comment

Igwriter you should check your facts, the vast majority of all that evil Wall St. money went to candidate Obama in the last election. As for the deregulation of the banks it was President Clinton who signed the law abolishing the Glass-Steagal Act. Is your screen name short for ignorant writer? View Comment

New York Times and Washington Post have been the mouthpiece of the left for at least a generation. To use either newspapers as an unbiased source of information is absurd. If I follow the party line on bashing and demonizing wealth and success than I guess the good Dr. Becker sold his practice for a loss. How dare he make money off his constituency. That would be so anti-Democrat to turn a profit. View Comment

Are these same parents complaining about the loss of classroom time when children are let out early for non educational events. How much instruction time is wasted during the last weeks of school? What about the last day to pick up their report cards and then are immediately dismissed. Are parents aware that the last day is counted as one of the 180 days of instruction? This is nothing but a phony issue. View Comment

Typical intimidation tactic. Would you expect anything less from a Kennedy? View Comment

angel125 must be a Transport Union official. Instead of caring about the safety of the public he is blaming the whistle blower for the engineer's problem. Speaks volumes View Comment

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The Tech Center is a great resource that has been ignored for too long by guidance counselors who believe everyone must go to college. To improve the program the name should be changed to The Westchester Technical Institute. View Comment

I do not smoke cigarettes and never have. Not because they are bad but I could never get beyond the taste. Shortly after the states extorted billions of dollars from the tobacco companies with the private attorneys handling this for the states( they made hundreds of millions in fees) the new studies have shown that tobacco decreases the overall cost of medical care. This is because the majority of medical care is received during ones's old age. Tobacco kills you before you get old. So I say if you want to smoke great . The taxes you pay for cigarettes helps pay to run government and you will be dead before you medicare kicks in. As for the Sullivan family this is a tragedy totally separate from the health effects of cigarettes. I hope Tom Sullivan Jr. gets help in understanding his families death was not his fault. View Comment

Alice Cronin is an educator to be praised and respected. You are a gem. View Comment

Remember this: "If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them," Biden said at a fundraiser in Minnesota View Comment

Katresident what do you say now. Waiting for the spin. View Comment

If this alleged nut case Vazquez is correct with her facts does it make them less true? This is not the first time someone with the credentials of Janet DiFiore has felt that they are above the law. What about her predecessor Jeanine Piro? Or the esteemed former Comptroller Alan Hevasi? In light of all the "highly principled" leaders in jail today I tend to believe Ms Vasquez before Ms. DiFiore because she knows what a scoundrel smells like by belonging to the Westchester County Independence Party chaired by Guilio Cavallo View Comment

It is amazing that she chairs the new state ethics board. As the saying goes "it takes one to know one". View Comment

The Ledger will not have to replace Jeff Morris as a columnist because JD Piro is very good at talking out of both sides of his mouth. View Comment

The reporter must have gotten the information from Mike Gordon the smart grid genius. View Comment

Congratulation to the new school board members. If you look at the results of our peer school districts K-L had the lowest winning percentage. Keep that in mind new school board. View Comment