NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 21, 2025) — I am back in the USA to work as a volunteer this week at The Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. I am trying to squeeze in a few other things during my visit but my primary purpose is the golf. I worked the last
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 20, 2025) — The New Rochelle Corporation for Local Development is, pound for pound, the most corrupt element of the city government. Here is a good example of why.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 19, 2025) — There is something very wrong with the Shrub Oak International School, a private institution in upper Westchester County, NY. We have been reporting for years on how the New Rochelle Board of Education paid millions of dollars to illegally place a tiny handful of
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 18, 2025) — Tuesday night’s New Rochelle City Council meeting was a masterclass in missed opportunities—about an hour of it, to be precise. Tucked into the agenda as a “Discussion Item,” Councilmember David Peters’ push for $200,000 in city funding for the Boys &
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 18, 2025) — During the so-called auditor’s report on New Rochelle 2024 financials, Finance Commissioner Lying Ed Ritter told council last week that sales tax is about fifty-fifty between brick-and-mortar and online sales. How he arrived at this figure is a mystery.
DUBLIN, IRELAND (September 14, 2025) — Not my most fun weekend. Notre Dame lost in the closing seconds to Texas A&M due to a missed extra point by the Irish. The Giants lost in OT to Dallas after the Cowboys kicker (from Notre Dame) kicked a long field goal
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 13, 2025) — The City of New Rochelle issued a Request for Master Redeveloper Proposal (RMRP) late Friday to tear down and redevelop about 20 acres of Flowers (City) Park. There have been no hearings, no public input, no surveys — no engagement of any kind. The RMRP
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 13, 2025) — Several speakers at Tuesdays hearing on the Quaker Ridge Road (QRR) Complete Streets Project voiced concerns about outdated traffic data. They were told all the information they could want was contained in the Final Design Report (FDR). The QRR hearing required as part of
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 11, 2025) — On Tuesday, the New Rochelle City Council met for its monthly Committee of the Whole Meeting to hear the status on the much-delayed independent auditor’s report. Finance Commissioner Ed Ritter and Brian Sawma, the so-called “independent” auditor from EFPR Group, spent
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 10, 2025) — For more than an hour last night, the New Rochelle City Council was misled, obstructed, deceived, and otherwise frustrated in their attempt to get answers as to the current state of the city’s finances. Finance Commissioner Ed Ritter repeatedly lied — through omission and
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 9, 2025) — More than a decade after the initial incident that sparked widespread local controversy, the case of City of New Rochelle v. Flavio La Rocca, et al. is finally set to proceed to a non-jury trial. The trial is scheduled for tomorrow, September 10,
DUBLIN, IRELAND (September 7, 2025) — So, now you know what I have known but could not say. New Rochelle is close to broke. Perhaps now skeptics will begin to understand why I have been reporting on wasteful spending under the Ramos/Melendez administration, why there is an ongoing, multiagency criminal