DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 31, 2025) — I am back now from my Grand Tour of Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany. Quite a trip. We don’t have Labor Day Weekend here so having recuperated from my travels I will be grinding out some interesting stories starting Monday. I spent some
MUNICH, GERMANY (August 27, 2025) — Gee, that was quick! I submitted my response Monday to the complaint filed on August 4 by David D. Lin and Michael D. Cilento of Lewis & Lin, LLC in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of New
BAYREUTH, GERMANY (August 26, 2025) — I submitted my response Monday to the complaint filed on August 4 by David D. Lin and Michael D. Cilento of Lewis & Lin, LLC on behalf of New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren (Dum Dum) and New Rochelle Development Commissioner Adam Salgado (Loverboy). You
PRAGUE, CZECH (August 24, 2025) — Over the past week I have been traveling with stops in Budapest, Vienna, and now Prague. I am off to Germany tomorrow to the attend the Bayreuth Festival. I booked so many things to do each day that I am too tired at the end
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 24, 2025) — I could write a detailed account of the disastrous Taste of Horton event yesterday — or the equally poor showing at the Coffee with the Mayor event — but I am going to ask my readers to do that in the comments.
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 17, 2025) — I will be on holiday starting tomorrow with stops in Budapest, Vienna, and Prague before crossing into Germany to attend the Bayreuth Festival to see two Wagner productions (Tristan & Isolde, Parsifal) at the opera house he built to showcase his compositions; the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 14, 2025) — In a recent opinion piece for Governing magazine, New Rochelle City Manager Wilfredo Melendez extolled the virtues of the council-manager system of government, crediting it with balancing democratic accountability and operational expertise to drive the city’s progress. But just weeks before the article’
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents. DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 13, 2025) — In a significant GETTING RESULTS win for New Rochelle taxpayers, competitive bidding for the 2025 Jazz Under the Stars and LINC-ing Futures events has slashed costs by over $67,000 compared to
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 10, 2025) — The big news this week is that Dawn Warren and Adam Salgado — now on their third (or fourth? or fifth?) law firm over the past year— finally found a lawyer willing to file their personal defamation lawsuit — funded by the City New Rochelle, meaning the
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 11, 2025) — A copyright dispute has emerged between Robert Cox, a journalist who owns the subscription-based website “Words in Edgewise,” and attorney Lalit K. Loomba and The Quinn Law Firm, PLLC, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of