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New Rochelle’s “City and Schools” Body Politic in Need of Surgery – Part 2
PART IIIn terms of objectives achieved, I would stack the mediocre record of our city council against the sadly pathetic plodding's of our well-meaning community-volunteer school board - any day of...
New Rochelle’s “City and Schools” Body Politic in Need of Surgery – Part 1
PART 1Asked about current politics, most residents of Westchester County's second largest city, New Rochelle, will steer discussion towards matters of national and international significance;...
Out of Mouths of Babes
Putatively Frank, Helpful, Local Newspaper (amazingly- shrinking Westchester County (NY) outlet of USA Today/Gannett corporate entity) Tries to “Tell-It-Like-It-Is” on Subjects of Municipal Finance,...
Abandonment of Term “Liberal” to the Left is Self-Abuse by Conservatives!
Liberal bigots? Not so surprising when you realize that in today's political "zeitgeist," liberal is the tag for "people of the left." It wasn't always so. In the past, the term meant "believer in...
Climate Semantics; Revolutionary Inquisitors, Reactionary Skeptics and Everyone Else Caught in Between
I understand the point of the article and I agree that it is right and proper for those in a position to act, to make choices and undertake actions that are likely to be effective in mitigating if...
“Medicare for All”? Why Not “Medicaid for All Who Legitimately Qualify for It”?
Both Dodge Capitalist Realities – but Medicaid Handle Recognizes Its Own Welfare Essentiality Yes, it has always "been about" the millions with no healthcare coverage. And now, thanks to the...
Upstate New York! Come To Terms With Your Political Irrelevancy to the NYS Democratic-Socialist (good luck with that!) Machine
Hey you know what? Earth to voters of Upstate New York: continue to have your destiny controlled by the environmental lobby, Democrat party machinations and Cuomo's presidential itinerary and you...
When “News Organizations” Take Sides – Otherwise and Somehow Become Partisans of One Candidacy or Another
Time to call out the news coverage for what it was. From my view on a monitor at a restaurant, the reporting about the invasion of the Trump California event represented active promotion by the...
Westchester Locality School Policy – Tradition of Material Excess…
Westchester Locality School Policy - Tradition of Material Excess; Personnel Cost Inflation; District Voter Lassitude/Taxpayer Lamentation. Reform Elusive or Unsought - Slick Teacher/Administrator...
A Look Back; Different Washington DC Administrations Produce Different National Plights but Local Failures Unabated!
We are in recession; employment is stuck near 10 % with absolutely no imminent lessening. Government at all levels faces strains over costs of public employment, health and retirement insurance....
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...
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 nobody...
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, at nearly...
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 Dont 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 schools. In case you haven’t, the thing...
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 car exhibition at Lime Rock racecourse in...
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 center, of...
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; from actor...
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 of the...
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 our youth, including the...
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 awfully disagreeable. And being lectured by even...
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 finance. Among the largest...
“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 who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself...
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 have ended. For you, it is too late, so...
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 legislatures based in the nation’s capital, the...
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