The Yonkers Connection On November 2, 1940, the Saturday before Election Day, Robert H. Jackson, the Attorney General of the United States, delivered the principal speech at a political meeting outside of New York City. That year featured a presidential election that Jackson and many believed would be close and, for Democrats, possibly a defeat: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeking …
Make Sure You Have the Right Prescription Drug Plan
Free Help at Yonkers Libraries The Westchester Library System (WLS), in partnership with the Medicare Rights Center, is offering a program on Medicare prescription drug plans at two Yonkers libraries on Thursday, November 4th. The program will help older adults and their caregivers understand their Medicare options so they can get the most for their health care dollars. The hour-long …
New York Civic: Hiram and Julissa BY Henry J. Stern
Hiram Monserrate Indicted for Dragooning Employees of Nonprofit He Enriched for His Own Political Gain The other shoe dropped Tuesday for Hiram Monserrate. The first State Senator to be expelled from that body since 1781, Monserrate was indicted by a Federal grand jury for using employees of a non-profit group he sponsored while a City Councilmember to labor on behalf …
Ed Koch Commentary: Canada Appears More Protective of Its Children Than Is the U.S. BY Edward I. Koch
Protecting Our Children; Housing Mortgage Foreclosures;Deportation of Illegal Immigrants; and the Unincarcerated Wealthy Criminals According to The New York Times of October 14th, Canada “has declared bisphenol A [BPA], a chemical widely used to create clear, hard plastics, as well as food can liners, to be a toxic substance.” This followed Canada’s ban of BPA two years ago “in polycarbonate bottles used by infants and children.” …
Bronxville Police Department Alert BY Chief Christopher Satriale
Bronxville, NY, October 18, 2010 — We are attempting to identify the owner of a dog that bit a child on Meadow Avenue near the Bronxville School on September 30 at about 3:00pm. Without properly identifying the owner and dog the eight year old child will have to be given the rabies vaccine. The dog is described as a small …
Political Heat Wave By Hezi Aris
Yonkers did not need to await a financial crisis for a rhetorical fog to descend upon the City of Hills. We were doing just fine thank you, concealing our underlying economic and social deficiencies. Only until a few weeks ago, City Hall was succeeding. Today, cracks in their forced optimism based upon allegedly false financial statements are beginning to show. …
Will Library Hosts Big Band Concert Featuring the Virgil Scott Orchestra
Yonkers, NY, October 16, 2010 — The Virgil Scott Orchestra presents ‘An Afternoon With the Big Bands’ on Saturday, October 23, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., at the Yonkers Public Library, Grinton Will Library, 1500 Central Park Avenue in Yonkers. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Yonkers Public Library. Admission is free of charge, no tickets are required, …