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“The Right to Disconnect” Is Essential in a Free Society
The meteoric rise of remote work has changed not only the economic landscape, but how people live their lives everyday. In 2023, about 12.7% of full time employees worked full-time from home, while...
How Doomsday Clocks Doom Society
For decades, we have been warned about impending doomsday prophecies, especially from climate activists. These warnings have done nothing but curb action. How urgent is it for us to invert the...
Should Cell Phones Be Banned From School?
Smartphones Have Proven To Be an Immense Distraction. Recent Success Stories Point to a Need for Smartphone Regulation In School When smartphones started to be adapted en mass, a diverse variety of...
Why Aren’t Legislators Acting Quicker on AI?
We Must Ensure Our Republic is Acting “For the People,” Not For a Faceless Algorithm The American political system is designed to act slowly. This is largely a good thing. It provides the proper...
The Trouble With New Rochelle
Or, why New Rochelle Republicans have much to learn from Oscar Wilde What is going on in New Rochelle? The formerly great, and grand Ur American suburb has settled into an advanced middle-aged funk;...
The New Rochelle Republican Party – “The party that dare not speak its name?”
A breeze blew in from Long Island Sound, scattering the squabble of seagulls that had just colonized the swath of pavement providing fishing and sunbathing roosts along Hudson Park's southeast...
Of Potholes, Principles and Politicians
Is "pothole repair" the most important contribution to the "general welfare" that local government can make? Mark Twain is reputed to have said, "Everybody talks about the weather, but...
New Rochelle’s Budgetary Burlesque of 2015
or "Mulch Ado About Nothing" The New Rochelle City Council's 2015 spending plan sets a new standard for budgetary buncombe and political perfidiousness. Overall spending,...
New Rochelle – A City, A Public Betrayed!
What is the purpose of local citizen politics? Not the deep philosophical question concerning the individual's relationship to the human race, to its culture and to the free-membership...
New Rochelle $50 million Bond Boondoggle Beaten Back!
But Don’t Get Out the Hats and Hooters Yet. By now, you may have read of the astounding result in the recent vote on a $50 million bond for New Rochelle...
A Fresh Look at the “Tea Party”
(or; how “liberals†can stop cruelly maligning it, learn to love liberty and join the club!) Last spring, I had occasion to visit a classic...
Thinking About the Second Amendment; A Primer For Enlightened Metropolitan New Yorkers
It is a small thing. Just a sentence-long paragraph of 27 words, but following the most hallowed first one, the Second Amendment to our the United States Constitution is front and...
HBO Bigot Pollutes Charter Debate
Ah... the Hollywood Axis of Evil. We have become accustomed to its denizens poking their stimulant-addled noses into matters of public policy, and making profound asses of themselves;...
Great “New Rochelle Debate?” or Just “Guile Over Substance?”
Was it a struggle over: substance or merely style, firm belief or acceptance of reality, earnest pursuit of truth or simple biding of time until the silly electoral season ends? For most...
Fighting Westchester County Teen Substance Abuse – A New Kind of Beginning?
Are you sitting down? I hope you are because I am about to tell you something shocking. Substance abuse has not ended. The trend towards recreational drug consumption among...
Adventures in Existential Terror: FBI Queries, Investigations and Plain Bullying
Ever been queried by the FBI? I can tell you, it’s not a pleasant experience; not for me, not for anyone I know. Talking to a couple of G-men can be...
Taming New Rochelle’s Governmental-Schools Leviathan
The recent failure of the $50 million school bond proposal in New Rochelle by the slimmest of margins provides an opportunity to consider the state of local educational...
“Chutzpah!”” Thy Name is Obama
“(C)hutzpa: Gall, brazen nerve, effrontery,.. presumption-plus-arrogance such as no other word, and no other language, can do justice to … a man...
Hey Voter: How Effective Was the Vote You Just Cast?
City Services Not Improved Yet? Call “Yer†Political Machine! (and good luck) By the time many of you have read this, the election season may already...
A closer look at a local branch might be instructive
Way back in 2009, while the American political economy was reeling from the “Great Recession†and the radical remedies prescribed by the presidents and...