by Steve Mayo | Sep 28, 2019 | Community, Government, Metro NY, Our Children
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 the week! This fact is unaffected by the city...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 28, 2019 | Community, Government, Metro NY
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; President Trump’s latest transgressions against political...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Community
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, Government Expense, Taxes (dare read occasional “Tax Watch” feature...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Government, Politics
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 liberty” and other...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Community, Government
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 not negating the possible damaging of the biosphere. Would the author...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Community, Government
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 economic primitivists running the once capitalism-friendly...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Government, Politics, Uncategorized
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 will continue to languish behind the Metropolitan NYC area, the...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Community, Government, Politics
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 National Broadcasting Company news department of unlawful conduct by the...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Community, Metro NY, Our Children
Westchester Locality School Policy – Tradition of Material Excess; Personnel Cost Inflation; District Voter Lassitude/Taxpayer Lamentation. Reform Elusive or Unsought – Slick Teacher/Administrator Rentier Organization/Campaign Enrichment Trump...
by Steve Mayo | Sep 5, 2019 | Government, Law, Politics
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. More important, citizens see the all-encompassing state that once was...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Metro NY, Politics
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; a smug, self-satisfied state of institutionalized mediocrity....
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Government, Metro NY
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 boundary. The popular public park, home of Summer Sounds...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Metro NY, Politics
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 does anything about it.” He may...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Government, Metro NY, Politics
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 $157 million, is bad enough; but that’s not the...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Government, Metro NY, Politics
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 organization commonly known as the “body politic.” To what end...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Government, Metro NY
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 failed! And that is good news to the many who think public education...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Government, Politics
(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 Connecticut, accompanied by our company’s CPA. On the subject of collectible cars...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Government, Law, Metro NY, Politics
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 compelling gravity and importance: A well regulated Militia, being necessary...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 21, 2019 | Community, Metro NY, Our Children
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 Sean Penn’s ludicrous foray into international drug-cartel diplomacy...
by Steve Mayo | Jul 17, 2019 | Government, Metro NY, Politics
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 participants in New Rochelle’s Great Debate, nothing was more important...
