Recommended Reading, November 10, 2024

Robert Cox

12 Nov 2024 — 5 min read

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA (November 10, 2024) — I spent the weekend in Munich with Loli, where we went to the Giants play the Panthers at Allianz Arena in an NFL Deutschland match up. Munich was wonderful. We went to the Munich Opera to see Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the Glockenspiel Clock at Marienplatz and strolled about the old city. After the game, we took at train to Salzburg for a strong dose of the Sound of Music and Mozart. This is a lovely small City. We are staying in the old town, which is remarkable. The Christmas markets are just being set up now but do not open until next week.

As I had time on my travels, I sorted through the records I obtained under FOIL for the WE Rock Lincoln Park event. I managed to finish Part V of my Thimblerig series yesterday, part of a pair with Part IV on the Unity in the Community event which document the ways Lachonne Williams and Vivian Spady used Spady’s Big Viv not-for-profit to take tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money from Adam Salgado then not account for what they did with the money.

Part IV and Part V are linked below.

Sad to say, we lost a good man, my former neighbor, Andrew Mussolini. He appeared in one of the greatest and most effective political ads in the history of Westchester politics: “Westchester Can’t Afford Noam Bramson”. I cannot think of anyone who would enjoy Donald Trump’s re-election more. RIP, Andy.

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