Imagine, the Board of Directors of the Yonkers Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants Association (CLSA) recognize that they are in need of an advocate in Albany, specifically to engage in issues that impact their membership. Similarly, but under a different timeframe, the Board of Directors of the Yonkers Police Benevolent Association (PBA) reach the same conclusion. With that understanding, each union …
THE HEZITORIAL: America’s Exceptionalism is Drowning in Conduct Not Illegal By HEZI ARIS
Public Interests at Risk There is blame to go around. Yet people don’t know toward whom fingers should point. Conduct thought to have met ethically acceptable Judeo-Christian standards have been gutted by aspects of the ever-evolving American Dream. It wasn’t even but one century ago that the body politics coalesced around and about the two-party system and their concepts of …
THE HEZITORIAL ANALYSIS: Contempt for the Legal System Keeps Sam Zherka in Prison BY HEZI ARIS
WHITE PLAINS, NY – October 23, 2014 — Legal counsel for The Westchester Guardian Publisher Selim “Sammy” Zherka came up empty in pleading his case on being released on $2.5 million bail. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel noted that Zherka had “shown contempt for the legal system.” Zherka’s entourage of legal eagles could not pry their client loose from the …
BREAKING NEWS: A Hezitorial Analysis – Yonkers’ 35-Foot Rat Declares “War” on City Hall By HEZI ARIS
Updated: Friday, September 26, 2014 @ 8:45 p.m. upon getting copy of the purported flyer now found herein. YONKERS, NY — September 26, 2014 — Reliable sources advise the Yonkers Tribune that another rally to contest and rattle the walls of a recalcitrant Yonkers City Hall in demand of contracts to satisfy six years in which union members have been …
HEZITORIAL ANALYSIS: Yonkers Unions Rally United on Gaining a Contract By HEZI ARIS
YONKERS, NY — September 4, 2014 — Yonkers City Hall’s western facing garden presented a welcoming venue for the six unions who came together Wednesday afternoon to underline and make it understood that six unions have been working for almost six years without a contract. They contend they were first to be called upon to maintain the functioning of the city …
THE HEZITORIAL PERSPECTIVE: Former Yonkers Board of Education Trustee Gains Illegal Employment As a Yonkers Public School Teacher’s Aide By HEZI ARIS
YONKERS, NY – September 4, 2014 – On August 26, 2014, Yonkers City Hall advised that Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) Trustee Nydia Perez had resigned from the board. James Cavanaugh, a Yonkers Parking Authority Board Director would shoulder the responsibilities for the balance of Perez’s unexpired term in office which runs through May 2015. As trustee of …
HEZITORIAL UPDATE: Paris in Parisi’s Future By HEZI ARIS
An Update YONKERS, NY – August 21, 2014 — Yonkers Tribune reported ten days ago about the misconduct of Westchester County Board of Elections (WCBoE) Commissioner Doug A. Colety with respect to his permitting use of his office to Westchester Republican County Committee Law Chairman Guy Parisi, Esq. Mr Parisi’s use of the office is a conflict interest, as vile …
THE HEZITORIAL ANALYSIS: Feeding Frenzy at the Taxpayer’s Expense By HEZI ARIS
See addendum Explaining Parisi Issue – 5th paragraph All too often Westchesterites perceive that politicians recoil from accommodating one another, preferring instead to point an accusatory finger of disdain upon the other. This is in fact a misnomer. It was on July 28, 2014, that the Yonkers Tribune published “THE HEZITORIAL EXCLUSIVE: Former Human Resources Commissioner Paula Redd Zeeman Seeks …
THE HEZITORIAL INVESTIGATION: ‘No Show’ Jobs Betray Yonkersites’ Trust in Governance By HEZI ARIS
There was a time, years ago, when people signed in with a time card to advise of their arriving at work; they also signed out when they departed. Eventually this protocol lost favor. Eventually, no checks or balances to what was written onto the time-sheets and documentation to validate those assertions were ever made. The “system” was based on people’s …
THE HEZITORIAL ANALYSIS: The New York State Budget, The Moreland Commission, Ethics Reform and the Gubernatorial Election By HEZI ARIS
The Moreland Commission has generated a lot of hysteria, but way too thick a smoke screen of obfuscation. Throw in the Real Estate Board of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Secretary Lawrence Schwartz, the alleged protagonists that cajoled this crisis into fevered pitch and you learn of fiction concocted to titillate while seemingly validating a well-managed plot whose plausible scenarios …