I Spent a Week Building an Article 78. Then I Filed a Better Complaint Instead.
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The Public's Right to Know: New Rochelle's FOIL Stonewall Part IV
Why Did the New Rochelle Board of Ethics Suddenly Decide It Had No Jurisdiction?
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (August 19, 2026) — This is not another article about Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert’s failure to deliver a State of the City address. She still has four months left in 2026. Until the year is over, that particular complaint is not ripe for a court to
The Public's Right to Know: New Rochelle's FOIL Stonewall Part III
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 18, 2026) — This is Part III in a multi-part series. In Part II, I described what happened after I sought records involving Generations Church and the City of New Rochelle. The City said its search had identified more than 10,000 records, later nearly 11,000
The Public’s Right to Know: New Rochelle’s FOIL Stonewall — Part II
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 17, 2026) — This is Part II in a multi-part series. In Part I, I explained how increasingly targeted FOIL requests, the City's resistance to them, my reporting in The New Rochelle Thimblerig and, ultimately, litigation became intertwined. I also said that the next step