New Rochelle CCRB Investigation: Structural Issues

Sunday Briefing: Appeals Court Smacks 2 DA’s, CCRB Doomed, McVey Staying Locked Up

This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the week ending: 28 June, 2026 A Note from the Publisher The 2nd Court of Appeals handed down a highly significant opinion in a case that no

Designed to Fail: New Rochelle CCRB

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 24, 2026) — Whether intentionally or through incompetence, the New Rochelle Citizens Complaint Review Board is an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption designed for a single outcome — failure. The CCRB will never function because it is constrained in a way that makes it impossible for it to function.

Sunday Briefing: Micro-Transit RFP, Rubicco CTOEC, Flip-Flop by DA on NRPD

This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the week ending June 21, 2026. A Note from the Publisher I spent most of the past week with my wife in Belgium, then Friday night we

Sunday Briefing: Housing Myths, Council Theater, and the DA’s Brady Problem

This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the week ending June 14, 2026 A Note from the Publisher A New Rochelle developer whose projects pre-date the 2015 DOZ, wrote an op-ed for