Happy Birthday America
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that...
Yonkers Caught within Traps of its Own Making and that of State Senate
Yonkers, NY -- Mayoral Director of Communications David Simpson advises by way of email notice and a Tweet of Mayor Amicone today spending the morning speaking with Governor David A. Paterson and NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli beseeching their assistance in getting Yonkers out from between the power struggle in the NYS Senate. The unexpected power struggle between the Democrats and Republicans for control of the Senate has left Yonkers incapable of proceeding forward with maintaining Yonkers cash flow to pay its municipal workers because the NYS Comptroller must sign off on the approved budget. Comptroller DiNapoli has advised that he...
The Level Playing Field Promoted Integral to Economic Development Cast Aside
Includes Whisky Rio Update Before the financial crisis gripped the nation Yonkers was experiencing its own economic development meltdown. Our vision of economic development was postulated and grand in scope. We wanted to believe the rejuvenation that so often eluded Yonkers would finally make the imprint and impact we were promised it would. There were a few successes along the way that kept our resolve high. Our hopes soared at the completion of the Riverfront Library and the attached Yonkers Board of Education building, the refurbishment of the Yonkers Metro North Railroad Station, the construction of the Home Depot, Costco,...
Senate Fiddles as New York Burns By Henry J. Stern
Senate Stumbles Into Food Fight Today is July 1, the 24th day of dereliction for the New York State Senate. It is also the first day of the city?s new fiscal year (FY 2010). Each level of government has its own unique calendar; the Federal government's fiscal year begins on October 1 and the State's on April 1. The only year that begins on January 1 is the calendar year. July and August are the only two months named for people: the Roman emperors Julius and Augustus Caesar. The two are long months (31 days each) because they were named...
Carting Company Operator Sentenced to 84 Months for Mount Vernon Bribery and Overbilling Scheme
White Plains, NY -- Lev L. Dassin (pictured), the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. DeMarest, Jr.,the Assistant Director-in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (?FBI?), announced that Albert Tranquillo III was sentenced today to 84 months of imprisonment on charges that he bribed the Supervisor of the Mount Vernon Department of Public Works to allow a carting company Tranquillo and a relative operated to overbill the City of Mount Vernon for the removal of waste from Mount Vernon city property. Tranquillo also was ordered to...
Yonkers Plans its Direction By Hezi Aris
The pragmatic among us will accept our place in time. We will accept our financial challenges, the unending struggle to deliver education to a younger generation in an innovative and palatable manner, and plan for a future more grand than the present imprint. Reality is defined by the vistas we experience between every blink of the eyelid, though not the only vision that may be conjured up to our respective minds. Accepting visions for what they are and what they can be lends a sense of hope to which each may be drawn, like a magnet drawing our past and...
Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Case Going to New York's High Court
Brooklyn, NY? The New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, has announced that it will hear the Atlantic Yards eminent domain case - Goldstein et al. v. N.Y. State Urban Development Corporation - in October. The owners of homes and properties targeted for seizure have argued that the use of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards proposal violates New York State Constitution. The appellants? briefs are due on July 31 and the case will be argued in front of the High Court in October on a date to be scheduled. (The Court convenes for six...
Yonkers Inspector General Zisman Issues Subpoena Duces Tecum to YPS Superintendent of School Pierorazio
Yonkers, NY -- Yonkers Inspector General Philip A. Zisman (pictured right) had June 26, 2009 by hand delivered a subpoena commanding the Yonkers Public Schools Superintendent of Schools Bernard Pierorazio (pictured left) to appear and attend before the Department of Inspector General of the City of Yonkers at Yonkers City Hall, 5th Floor, 40 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10701 on the 6th day of July, 2009, at 11:00 A.M. and at any recessed or adjourned date thereof, to testify under oath in the investigation relating to the affairs, functions, accounting methods, efficiency or personnel of the City of Yonkers, Public...
Kaplowitz Asserts NYS Senate Gets Failing Grade for Term - Must Attend 'Summer School'!
Peekskill, NY -- County Legislator and Board Vice Chairman Michael B. Kaplowitz (D-I-WF, Somers), joined by angry local residents and business owners, held a press conference today outside the Westchester County?s Department of Social Services Building on Washington St. in Peekskill. The purpose of the press conference was to present a year-end ?report card? on the performance of the NY State Senate. ?The cost of the State Senate?s immaturity and inaction is going to translate to real dollars for the taxpayers of Westchester County in an already struggling economy,? said Kaplowitz, the immediate past chair and current member of the...
