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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 1, 2024) — It would be difficult to overstate the implications of the allegations that Lieutenant Sean Kane, the head of the Special Investigations Unit of the New Rochelle Police Department, tampered with evidence. The case that precipitated the internal police investigation had already been tossed out
This is Part I in a 4-Part Series DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 1, 2024) — For as long as anyone can remember, the City of New Rochelle has never acted on anonymous complaints. That changed last summer. On or about July 21, 2023, the seven members of the New Rochelle City Council
Part II in a 4-Part Series Start at Part I. DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 31, 2024) — Before getting into the inner workings of the Sustainable Westchester Executive Director Search, I want to put in context how Noam Bramson, a “weak” Mayor in a Council-Manager form of government, with decades as a
Part I in a 4-Part Series DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 29, 2024) — This is the story, broken into four parts, of how Noam Bramson came to be offered the position of Executive Director of Sustainable Westchester on May 3, 2023, despite being significantly under-qualified for the position based on key criteria
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 28, 2024) — I am back in Dublin after a lovely but exhausting trip to Scotland to see the British Open (or as it is called here just The Open), and visits to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Balmoral Castle. If you take a trip like I did, especially Edinburgh,
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 25, 2024) — More than a month after I asked New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren to explain her clearly untrue statements preceding a June 18 vote on a resolution giving the Acting City Manager carte blanche to sign contracts with Sustainable Westchester, I have obtained records which
LEWISBORO, NY (July 23, 2024) — Sustainable Westchester Executive Director Noam Bramson never even made it to the podium this time after the majority of the Town Board last night refused to budge on its prior decision to table any discussion of Sustainable Westchester for 90 days or until October 9
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 23, 2024) — New Rochelle Councilmember Sara Kaye (née Sara Marnel) is delinquent on her law license. According to her Attorney Detail Report found in the New York State Unified Courts System database, Kaye (Marnel) was required to file her biennial registration by October 2023 but failed to
EDINBURGH, IRELAND (July 21, 2024) — Loli and I are on a trip to Scotland. We started in Glasgow. We took Scottish Rail out to Troon for the first round of The Open (in the U.S. it’s the British Open). We then took the train back to Glasgow, then
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 19, 2024) — Since she took office on January 1, 2024, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, wielding the cudgel of a subservient 6-1 majority on the New Rochelle City Council, has inexorably moved the City of New Rochelle towards one-person, one-party rule. Things have gotten so bad, Councilmember Albert Tarantino was
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 16, 2024) — Now you know how the scammers and con artists work. Slipped into the City Council agenda for tomorrow’s Regular Legislative Meeting is this item: I have been raising questions about this very issue since last March. I was baffled as to how Mayor Yadira
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 15, 2024) — Time stopped over the weekend with the events in Western Pennsylvania. It is difficult to focus on my reporting on Westchester County and not stray into national news, something I committed myself to do 16 years ago when I shifted from working for Newsweek on