Tired of traveling in his job as an auditor of Fortune 50 companies for the old Price Waterhouse & Co., Jon B. Schandler jumped at the chance when his wife showed him an ad for the comptroller’s position at White Plains Hospital Medical Center.

It appears county government won’t have to stick its legislative nose into the kitchens of Westchester restaurants as New York City health officials did in banning the use of cooking oils containing trans fats.

Round two of the drive by doctors and business leaders to rein in HMOs has begun, with the Westchester County Association supporting a trio of bills introduced in recent days by Assemblyman Adam Bradley, D-White Plains.

Seven years of wrangling between The New York-Presbyterian Hospital and neighbors of its White Plains campus ended last week when city officials killed the hospital’s plan for a biomedical complex within its Bloomingdale Road campus.

Off and on since the Internet’s dot-com infancy in the late 1990s, Westchester officials have talked about allowing lawyers and title professionals to file land records without having to trek to the County Clerk’s Office. In one pilot program, several lawyers were invited to file papers electronically.

New Yorkers need to take a serious look at the state of the economy, the state’s business council chief said.

In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Dyson Foundation, a private, family-directed grantmaking foundation in Millbrook, has given Pace University a $7.5 million gift, making it the third largest in the school’s 100-year history.