A New Year: United, We Stand

by | Jan 10, 2021 | News, Opinion

A bit late, but I want to start by wishing all of you and your families a happy and healthy 2021.  The year is off to a mixed start, to be sure, with hard-won victories in Georgia and terrible violence at the Capitol.  But we are looking forward to a new President and...

Old Blues, Eastchester Blues

by | Nov 12, 2020 | Values

Did you know… Yale alumnae/i are called “Old Blues’?  I am kvelling over my Yale college classmate and friend Daniella Levine Cava, who won her race for Mayor of Miami-Dade County in south Florida. She will be the first woman to hold that position, and the first...

Mail

by | Sep 23, 2020 | Values

So now you know, if you didn’t before, every vote is important this year.  Presidents may or may not be able to balance the budget, bring  prosperity to us all, resolve armed conflicts everywhere — there are innumerable things...

Dribble March And Tuckahoe Endorsement

by | Sep 6, 2020 | News, Values

September 6, 2020 Saturday morning, please join me and the staff and young people of the Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle in a justice march, dribbling basketballs down North Avenue, from the playground just south of the...

Voting Machines

by | Aug 11, 2020 | News, Opinion

This is my political platform and I’ll whine if I want to, whine if I want to…  We did a lot of good things at our last full Board meeting last week, which I’ll report on in the next eblast from my official County account.  But here I’m sorry to tell you that my...

Non-Uniformed Aid and Unmasked Resentment

by | Jul 19, 2020 | Values

A couple of young New Rochelle residents got me excited about a concept that meshes well with the Governor’s mandate to reimagine policing and the post-COVID necessity to police more cost-effectively.  It is a successful program that has been around for over 30...
Unity Wednesday night, now Action

Unity Wednesday night, now Action

by | Jun 5, 2020 | News

Thank you to all of the 300 or so who joined me Wednesday evening in our two-mile march south on North Avenue to City Hall where we met up with approximately 3,000 other people from all ends and centers of New Rochelle. It was an immensely successful, strong and...

Breathless in Seattle

by | Jun 1, 2020 | News

“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights…Those who do nothing are inviting shame as...