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CITY SURRENDERS PUBLIC RECORDS TO DEVELOPER: New Rochelle Hands Over Flowers Park Bid, Lets Bob Young and His Lawyers Decide What the Public Gets to See
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (December 1, 2025) — Despite bleating on endlessly about transparency and public engagement, Yadira & Co. are by far the least transparent group to run City Hall in anyone’s memory. What has just happened with the Flowers Park RFP Response is a despicable, deceitful act by City
Pelham Manor Candidate’s Mystery Email About Rob Rubicco Story Raises Questions
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (November 30, 2025) — I received a rather odd, unsolicited email last week from a person I do not know: Ryan J. Kurtz, a Democratic candidate for Pelham Manor trustee who is currently trailing by two votes in a race headed for a recount Tuesday, complaining about my
Recommended Reading, November 23, 2025
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 23, 2025) — We had a very nice, quick trip to Paris: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, Pont Neuf Bridge (come alone!), Musée Louvre, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Jardin des Tuileries, Musée D'Orsay, Hôtel des Invalides (Napoleon’s Tomb), Tour Eiffel and Palais Garnier to
Recommended Reading, November 16, 2025
PARIS, FRANCE (November 16, 2025) — It has been quite a hot streak for me: Westchester Power… Dead. Flowers Park RFP… Dead. Flavio La Rocca Land Grab… Dead. Phil Colasuonno $2.7 mm Tax Scam… Dead. Other shoes to drop: Sustainable Westchester fires Noam Bramson? Westchester County District Attorney drops indictments
PSC Calls Out Sustainable Westchester Deficiencies; Bramson Ethics Scandals & Criminal Probe Tell Darker Story
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 14, 2025) — Michael Balter of The Croton Chronicle interviewed Noam Bramson on Monday. He published the results here: Why did Sustainable Westchester pull the plug on its Community Choice Aggregation program? It is definitely a must read for Noam Bramson and Sustainable Westchester fans. One paragraph, in
Yadira & Co. Gaslighting on New Rochelle’s Flowers Park – Part X
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 12, 2025) — As the New Rochelle City Council prepares to be put on full-blast at tonight’s Citizens to be Heard, I wanted to throw together a few disparate tidbits to round out my gaslighting series, content I gathered later or new issues and questions that have
Recommended Reading, November 9, 2025
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 9, 2025) — In a welcome, long-sought result (by me and many of my readers anyway!), Westchester Power is ceasing operations this month and all customers will be returned to Con Edison or NYSEG, signaling the death rattle of Sustainable Westchester and it’s Green Tyranny. This is
Westchester Power Customers Fed Misinformation, Denied Opt-Out Rights in Ethics and Regulatory Collapse
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 7, 2025) — Sustainable Westchester has announced it will end its Westchester Power community energy program on Nov. 30, returning tens of thousands of customers across 26 municipalities to default Con Edison or NYSEG service. The nonprofit cited new state regulations that made continuing the program unfeasible. In
A Gaslighting Sidebar: Shane Osinloye’s Sanctimonious Lecture on Flowers Park
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 6, 2025) — In my Words in Edgewise “gaslighting” series last week I tucked a section entitled “Shane Osinloye Rant” into Yadira & Co. Gaslighting on New Rochelle’s Flowers Park - Part II. Of course, you should read that article in full - and the entire series!
Yadira & Co. Gaslighting on New Rochelle’s Flowers Park – Part IX
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 4, 2025) — Part VIII of this series accuses New Rochelle City Manager Will Melendez of misusing a New York Times headline to alarm the city council into approving an unnecessary, costly public-private partnership for Flowers Park. Melendez misled the city council by displaying a misleading headline from
Recommended Reading, November 2, 2025
DUBLIN, IRELAND (November 2, 2025) — The deadline for the Flowers Park RFP, October 29, has come and gone. I immediately made a FOIL request to the Clerk for all the bid documents. I also asked Bob Young, and I asked Will Melendez. Dear City Manager, The deadline for submitting bids