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
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 12, 2024) — I heard back on my most recent ethics complaint against New Rochelle Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert for her signing an unauthorized contract, dated March 25, 2024, to hire a law firm to negotiate a Settlement Agreement with now former City Manager Kathleen Gill. Given the fact
Noam Bramson sent packing by 3-1 vote LEWISBORO, NY (July 10, 2024) — Monday’s Lewisboro Town Board Meeting devolved into chaos over whether to allow Noam Bramson to address the board. Bramson, the former Mayor of New Rochelle, is the Executive Director of Sustainable Westchester. Also in the room was
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 8, 2024) — I am adding one more municipality to my list of defective Sustainable Westchester contracts: the Town of North Salem. This is a case of saving the stupidest Sustainable Westchester board member for last. As you read this just keep in mind “math genius” Warren Lucas
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 8, 2024) — I am adding another municipality to my list of defective Sustainable Westchester contracts: the Town of Mamaroneck. As readers now well know, key personnel of Sustainable Westchester habitually failed to follow New York State General Municipal Law and New York State Public Officers Law by
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 8, 2024) — What to do with a four-day weekend in the United States when you live and work in Ireland? After all, while July 4th was Independence Day in New York, it was just another Thursday in Dublin. What tipped me towards holding off on new stories
We arrived on July 4, 2023, and kept moving. First Year Highlights: * Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome * West Belfast Black Taxi Tour * Meeting Cardinal Dolan at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City * Elvis Costello at the National Concert Hall in Dublin * Churchill War Rooms in London * Kilmainham Gaol
DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 30, 2024) — It has been Taylormania here in Dublin over the past week with her three sold-out shows at the Aviva Stadium, just down the street from my house in Ballsbridge. The Swifties have been all over my neighborhood in their cowboy hats, cowboy boots and Taylor
Just not the one you might think DUBLIN, IRELAND (June 27, 2024) — Anyone who has lived in Westchester for a good amount of time knows about Warner Wolf and going to the videotape — except some folks up in Lewisboro. The Town of Lewisboro released to me the first of two