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A Hospital Too Far—Involuntary Manslaughter By EVAN SCOTT LEVINE, MD FACC After shoveling snow, a 50-year-old man struggles for breath and tells his wife that it feels as if someone is “sitting on his chest.” Although it is cool inside his home, he is drenched in perspiration. His wife calls 911, and within the hour, the artery—which has abruptly closed— is being opened by a cardiologist who has inserted a fine, metallic stent in his coronary artery. This is an example of the best cardiovascular care in America, on which consumers spent approximately $444,000,000 in 2010--almost one- dollar for every six-dollars spent overall on health care. While there are not a lot of absolute “facts” in the practice of medicine, or processes with only one “best” solution, when it comes to a patient having a heart attack following an artery’s
Involuntary Manslaughter: Manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard human life, from the commission of an unlawful act not constituting a felony, or from the commission of a lawful act in a negligent or improper manner. closing, we do know that the method most likely to save the patient’s life—is to get the artery open as soon as possible. Time is of the essence, for as the minutes pass, more of the heart muscle dies and cannot be repaired. Scarring subsequently will occur. A heart with a large scar is a far weaker heart. Patients who incur such damage will experience symptoms of heart failure. Additionally, large scars also cause short circuits in the heart’s intricate electrical wiring that may lead to lethal arrhythmias and sudden death.
In actuality, a few minutes between the time a heart attack occurs and the time a patient is treated, may mean the difference between life and death. We know that patients who get to a catheterization lab quickly and have their artery opened promptly, are more likely to survive the event, are less likely to experience heart failure, and also are more likely to live longer. For me, personally, the event is akin to caring for the victim of a gunshot wound to the chest. As in that scenario, it is essential that the individual be transported to the nearest hospital that can save his or her life. There is no other option here. That is why the current guidelines for the management of patients having had heart attacks caused by an acutely closed
artery, published jointly by The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiologists, states that “transport time to the hospital is variable from case to case, but that the goal is to keep total ischemic time within 120 minutes”— which means that the total time for the heart to be starved of blood flow and hence, oxygen should be less than the aforementioned figure. The most trusted and senior cardiologists developed the rule for such an event, intended to emphasize to every healthcare worker the importance of getting a closed artery opened as quickly as possible. Now, to digress, imagine that a large, university hospital made an agreement with the administrators of a small, community hospital, a hospital that is not equipped to administer care to this patient, to ship that gunshot victim to THEIR hospital—regardless of the fact that the patient was bleeding to death and another university hospital, their competition, was closer, as well as capable of treating this patient. And suppose the victim died due to this arrangement? Would this, then, be considered “involuntary manslaughter?” In New York State—and I suspect all around the country, some large university hospitals have, in fact, entered
into “affiliations” with small hospitals that do not have cardiac labs and are not capable of opening these closed arteries with balloons and stents. Perhaps prior to this arrangement that smaller hospital sent their patients to the closest hospital capable of saving the patient’s life. But now, with this new arrangement doctors and hospital administrators are expected to “feed” their affiliated university
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A Hospital Too Far—Involuntary Manslaughter Continued from page 3 hospital (hospital A) these heart attack patients, even though hospital B, C or D might be much closer. I sat down recently on a Saturday in March of 2014, a day where traffic is light, and nothing near as slow as a weekday, especially during a rush hour. I looked at Google Maps, at around 1:00 p.m., and at the estimated drive times from the two Community Hospitals in Yonkers, New York (Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Saint John’s Hospital) to four major medical centers, one in the same county as Westchester, the other in the Borough of The Bronx, in New York City, and two others in Manhattan. These are the estimated transport times:
From Saint John’s Riverside Hospital: • 18 minutes to Montefiore in The Bronx; • 23 minutes to Westchester Medical Center; • 38 minutes to Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC; and • 39 minutes to NYU Medical Center in NYC. From Saint Joseph’s Hospital: • 20 minutes to Montefiore Medical Center • 25 Minutes to Westchester Medical Center • 39 Minutes to Mount Sinai Medical Center • 45 Minutes to NYU Medical Center in NYC
Again, these are estimated times, for a car, not an ambulance, and on a weekend day. These times also do not take into account the time it may take for the ambulance to come to the community hospital after they are called for transport. Nevertheless, you can understand now, the importance of getting a patient with a heart attack to the NEAREST hospital and question why someone in a hospital in Yonkers would be transported to a hospital almost 40 minutes away when it would take almost half the time to transport the patient to the closer hospital. It appears to me that in an effort to capture business, a patient may be taken an extra 20 minutes or more from where they can get equal and much faster care. Damned if valuable treatment time may be lost in transit--whether for the
gunshot victim, or the person having suffered the heart attack. In the latter case, millions of heart cells may have died in the process; the patient might incur a larger scar; or even die a few years earlier than if he had been promptly treated. The basic rule that patients with a STEMI (ST ELEVATION MI), (the heart attack often caused by sudden blockage), be taken to the nearest hospital, is being ignored, and as I review the names of the physicians on the committee who wrote the rules for the treatment of a STEMI myocardial infarction--a rule almost as powerful as any law--I recognize that some of the hospitals of which they are in charge, may be violating the very rule they so judiciously demand of others. Our sick healthcare system, concerned with plumping egos as well as
pockets, are turning a blind-eye to the administering of honest patient care. And the tragedy is that no one seems to be policing it. If a physician, who wrote the rules, knowingly violates those rules, is he not responsible? If one patient dies because of these actions is that not a crime of involuntary manslaughter?
residents an estimated $1.6 billion, and will likely result in another substantial raise in water rates. New York City’s rates have risen 165 percent since they started building the Van Cortlandt Park water filtration plant. “I was one of several members of the New York delegation who wrote former Administrator Lisa Jackson, urging a waiver of the regulation as it applies to Hillview. I am very concerned that the costs of this unnecessary, redundant project will be shouldered by water-rate payers in my district. Construction costs for the water filtration
plant in Van Cortlandt Park, where the price tag skyrocketed to around $3 billion from its original estimate of $900 million, shows that the final price will be dramatically higher than initial projections.” “The EPA claims the cover would protect our drinking water from animal and bird droppings, which contain pathogens. But New York City recently opened an ultraviolet disinfection plant to treat our water supply for the same pathogens the cover is designed to prevent. It’s also an incredibly disruptive, major construction project
that would place an undue burden on the Yonkers and Bronx communities around the Reservoir. This is completely unacceptable.” “The benefits of a cover seem negligible in comparison to the disruption to people’s lives and the staggering $1.6 billion it would cost to construct it.” The EPA Administrator promised to provide Congressman Engel with an update on the project in the next few weeks. Click here for a link to video from the hearing.
Dr. Evan S. Levine, M.D., F.A.C.C.(Fellow of the American College of Cardiology) is director of The Saint Joseph Cardiovascular Center and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center – Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also the author of the book “What Your Doctor Won’t (or Can’t) Tell You”. He resides in Connecticut with his wife, two daughters, and two cats, and can be reached by directing e-mail to drevanlevine@gmail.com .
Rep. Engel to EPA
Nix the Hillview Reservoir Cover By Congressman ELIOT ENGEL Washington, D.C. – Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, renewed his call for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its current plan to build a cover
over the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers, NY. Representative Engel reiterated his concerns about the reservoir cover during a subcommittee hearing into the agency’s budget, and asked EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy for an update of the project. New York City’s drinking water system is the largest in the nation, and provides service to over nine million people in the City and its suburbs. The cover would cost
TERM LIMITS
Tried Twice; Third Time’s the Charm By HEZI ARIS YONKERS, NY — Recent political wins by Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, promoted and endorsed from a distance, albeit evoking plausible deniability by Governor Andrew Cuomo, and equally crushing any feigned interest in restructuring an independent Yonkers Public School District, will within days have the Spano Administration present a special meeting to be called by the Yonkers City Council President. The purpose is to rescind the twice-won effort by the voters to maintain term limits in the City of Yonkers. Tried twice, the third time’s the charm. The momentum being with Mayor Spano, bringing about a repeal of term limits may be accomplished in one of two
ways. While the resolution has not yet been formalized, the process options are in place. The most efficient process, meaning also the one least to gain media notice, and even less public discussion is one in which the Yonkers City Council (YCC) takes on the issue. Should the YCC be able to muster
the required “super-majority” vote of 5 votes minimum of the 7 that could be cast, term limits would be repealed and the Yonkers City Charter amended. The second, although messier process, is to summon the Yonkers City Charter
Revision Commission to study the issue and formulate legal language that would give expression to either repealing or maintaining term limits. The resolution would be voted upon in the November 2014 election and the majority votes will earn approval.
Realize also that should such a resolution be presented to the YCC, as we assert it will, and must if the Yonkers City Councilmembership are to be desirous of extending their political term of office presently restricted to but two terms, the resolution must be present in 2014. If accomplished in 2014, term limits would no longer be a concern in the 2015 and beyond. The Yonkers Tribune has not contacted each councilmember as to their leaning. Some have said they will abide by the public’s vote to maintain the term limits, others consider it logical that more can be accomplished with at minimum three terms in office, if not more, and others believe term limits should only be decided by the majority vote. That said, it seems logical to infer that the YCC vote before which a resolution to repeal term limits be repealed is a done deal. Tried twice, the third time’s the charm.
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by Westchester County Parks, Friends of Westchester County Parks, Inc. and AMF White Plains Lanes, the tournament is open to Westchester County resident senior citizens age 60 years and older who have a certified league average, or who have bowled three games that have been verified by lanes management. The Field Gallery in Peekskill invites you to a provocative show of teenage individuality with the rise of the “selfie” as the expression of teen identity today (the cell phone, the webcam, the casual, quick photo on social media), this show turns the camera’s gaze outward. How do inner-city youth see their friends, allies, strangers, neighbors, a frenemy? In this ground-breaking and thought-provoking show, led by artists and educators Jo-Ann Brody and Jamelah Zidhan, urban youth were taught a series on the history and technique of portrait photography. The teens were then broken
up into small groups, where they turned the lens on each other. These young artists had an invaluable opportunity to express themselves in a way they’ve never had in recent times: a chance to connect by looking beyond preconceived notions of self. The result is an astounding view of what they see of each other, and by extension, what they see of themselves. The show runs through April 27th. The Mianus River Gorge conservators are looking for volunteers to help plant trees on the Twin Lakes property in a family-friendly event for ages 12 and older on Sunday, April 27th from 1:00 to 4:00pm. The Gorge acquired this piece of property before it became part of a housing development, but after it was cleared for a driveway. The new plantings will help restore the driveway back to a forest. My cousin Jeff will love this item… Ready, set, serve… registration is now open for the spring Westchester County Coed Volleyball Tournament, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 16 and
17, from 7 to 11 p.m. each night, at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. The tournament is open to men and women, 18 years of age and older, who are members of organized teams, such as corporations, clubs, recreation centers or local “Ys.” The tournament will be played in Round Robin format on Wednesday to determine the ranking of each team, with a double-elimination tournament for the championship round on Thursday. Just because we are finally getting outside doesn’t mean our local athletes have not been out practicing and playing for a month. Take an afternoon and head over to your local high school and catch some action on the turf, track, court or diamond. Cheer loudly and support the kids. Not only does it build community spirit, but it is fun too… see you next week.
Awadi was born in Dakar, in 1969. His Benin-born father and his Cape Verdeborn mother were both primary school
teachers. Bitten by the hip‐hop bug in his early teens, Awadi launched a career as a rapper and DJ in the mid‐80s and began to
make a name for himself on the burgeoning local scene with his first group Didier
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News & Notes from Northern Westchester By MARK JEFFERS Fore! The Westchester County golf courses are finally open. Everyone beware as I haven’t hit a ball in a year, the good news is that I hit a bucket of plastic balls in the front yard and still finished this week’s “slice free” edition of “News & Notes.” And the Tony goes to… congratulations to all of the Fox Lane Middle School students who took part in the production of “Shrek”. Maybe it is because I can’t carry a tune in a basket, but I thought this performance was Broadway worthy from the sets to the songs, the hard work and effort that went into it really paid off. Congratulations to veteran teacher/director Matt Vanacoro and his team for a job well done. So here’s a gift for my wife who loves to garden and it’s her birthday… Get
Gardening, stop by The Field Library in Peekskill and celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd. Come make a recycled biodegradable pot, fill it with soil, and plant seeds in your new pot, then bring it home to start your own garden. Free of charge, all supplies included, and open to the entire community. Happy Earth Day! The good folks at the Community Center of Northern Westchester in Katonah are looking for the following items: canned fruit, vegetables, dried & canned beans, hot & cold cereal, tuna, canned meat, cans of soup, beef stew, chili, pasta, rice and spaghetti sauce. Amateur bowlers age 60 (I do not qualify, yet…) and older with time to “spare” can enjoy a day of exercise and camaraderie during the annual Westchester County Senior Citizen Bowling Tournament on Monday, April 14th, at the AMF White Plains Lanes in White Plains. Sponsored
Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire.
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Awadi with a Mission By SHERIF AWAD In his first visit to Egypt, Senegalese singer Didier Awadi astonished the African and international attendees with his performance of African classics and contemporary rap songs. Awadi’s invitation to perform during the closing ceremony of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) came as part of the tribute given to Senegal in the 3rd LAFF Edition that took place last March. Without a doubt, Didier Awadi is the most prominent artist to have emerged from Africa’s francophone and rap scene. After winning Radio France internationale’s (RFI) Musiques du Monde Award in 2004, Awadi established himself as a veritable pioneer, pushing borders and opening new paths for the music of an entire generation of African youth and their counterparts across the world. Working as part of the group Positive Black Soul, Awadi has recorded a stack of acclaimed and accomplished albums, with influences from Europe and the United States. Both artist and entrepreneur, he is also a film director and the head of Studio Sankara that he founded in the
Senegalese capital of Dakar back in 2003 to satisfy his desire for economic and artistic independence.
The Lion’s Point of View, is testimony to Awadi’s debut as a director. “Studio Sankara group is not only an audiovisual and phonographic production company but also a communication agency, events, sound system, and security team”, explains Awadi whose motto is “Dare inventing the future” as creed of Captain Thomas Sankara, the Burkina Faso President between 1983 and 1987.
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Awadi with a Mission Continued from page 5
Awadi’s Syndicate. The Syndicate faced stiff competition from a rival group called The King’s MC, fronted by Amadou Barry (aka Doug E Tee). Awadi and Doug E Tee were like their rapper counterparts in Paris and New York, going on a mission to defend the heritage of their native neighborhood. Soon, Awadi and Doug E Tee realized they were both coming from the same direction carrying the same musical philosophy being based on a profound respect of their cultural roots and African history. Fascinated by what was going on the American rap scene, they decided to join forces to produce a sound of equivalent quality, yet with their own identity that mixes elements of African culture. Right from the start Awadi and Doug E Tee made it clear they had a hard‐hitting message to get across and they used their militant rap as a mouthpiece to express the views of a generation of young Africans who were open to the rest of the world and cured of their inferiority complex towards the West. The album entitled Boul Falé, strengthened their popularity on Africa’s Francophone rap scene and paved the way for collaborations with Africa Fête and the Mango Island label. Once signed to his international label, the duo proceeded to embark upon an extensive tour outside of Africa where they took Europe by storm. They went on to release a debut album called Saalam (translation is “peace” in Arabic), which included new versions of the hits they had scored in Africa. Over the following years Positive Black
Soul went on to make their mark on the international rap scene, touring extensively in Africa and the rest of the world.They brought the house down from Johannesburg to Paris and New York. When they performed at Midem, the international record industry fair in Cannes in 1997, PBS hooked up with their American producer Van Gibbs (father of the Fugees’ producer, Salaam Remi). Van and his father made their expertise and their New York studio available to PBS and the result was the album Run Cool, recorded with a helping hand from Jamaican stars Red Rat and Bob Marley’s son Ky Mani Marley and Franco‐Cameroonian singer Princess Erika. After numerous and many tours around the world, Awadi and Doug E Tee decide to put a temporary hold on Positive Black Soul to take on and accomplish personal projects. In 2004, Awadi launched his first solo album Word of Honor where he showed his intelligent sense of Pan-Africanism, tackling many crucial themes such as debts, dilapidated heritage, and political tensions. A few months later came the international release of his second solo album Another World is Possible where he sang lyrics destined to massive awakening of African consciousness. His 2008 album Sunugaal served as a reality blow during the time of the massive exodus of young Africans on fortune adventures towards the Spanish coasts. In 2010, Awadi presented Presidents of Africa, an artistic multidisciplinary and multimedia project on which he has been working for over five years. In this project, Awadi celebrated 50 years of sovereignty, by revisiting the history of Africa and the independence of African countries to celebrate African figures such
as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, and Cheikh Anta Diop. In 2011, Awadi directed the documentary The Lion’s Point of View that was presented in the Cannes Festival’s Pavillon Cinémas du Monde in which he tackled the illegal migrations of African towards the shores of Europe. “Nowadays young Africans climb into simple wooden boats, they cross the desert and the sea towards an imaginative Eldorado. Why? What are the deeper reasons? And how could it come this far?” These were the starting questions from director and hip-hop star Didier Awadi. For several years he interviewed ex-presidents and ministers, important UN officials, writers, artists, historians, activists, lay migrants, and refugees. The result was a decidedly Pan-African, deliberately subjective and revolutionary documentary whose power of impact leaves little more to be desired. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film / video critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday. com), and the artistic director for both the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. He also contributes to Variety, in the United States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia (http://varietyarabia.com/ ), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm Website (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/ node/198132 ) and The Westchester Guardian (www.WestchesterGuardian.com ). The Lion’s Point of View, is testimony to Awadi’s debut as a director.
CURRENT COMMENTARY
Ding-Dong! Your Credit Card Company Comes Calling By LARRY M. ELKIN Is your credit card company stalking you? The question may sound ridiculous – unless the answer to “What’s in your wallet?” is a Capital One card. Some of Capital One’s customers recently received a contract update, and at least one of them was concerned by what he read there. Rick Rofman, a resident of Van Nuys, Calif., spoke to the Los Angeles Times about his reaction to the contract that included provisions for contacting cardholders by “personal visit,” as well as the more traditional phone, fax, text or email. The visits can be at your place of employment or at your home. “I guess most people don’t read the
inserts, but I happen to have read it,” Rofman said. “I’m 71 years of age, and I have never seen this anywhere.” Capital One also reserves the right to “spoof,” or mislead, caller identification services. When journalists contacted the credit card company, it was quick to clarify that this language wasn’t new and that it didn’t mean cardholders should expect to find Capital One employees peering in their windows or lingering in workplace parking lots. Company spokeswoman Pam Girardo told the LA Times, “Capital One does not visit our cardholders, nor do we send debt collectors to their homes or work,” except in cases of big-ticket sporting goods like jet skis. Girardo also said that Capital One always intends to
appear as “Capital One” on its customers’ caller ID, but that sometimes how it appears is out of the company’s control. The attention generated by the article, however, led Capital One to announce it would review the language in its contract. Six weeks later, as far as the public can see, that review hasn’t led to any change. I suspect Capital One will keep “reviewing” the language until the news cycle moves on, and then quietly leave the provisions in place. We know what Capital One is doing, and it is obvious why it is doing it. The contract’s terms gets customers to agree to “voluntarily” waive protections under various statutes, to the extent they are legally allowed to grant such waivers. And the bank is doing so, in all likelihood, primarily to make bad credit card debt more
valuable to third-party debt collectors who purchase it for pennies on the dollar and then proceed, as aggressively as the law allows, to collect the full face value of those debts. Of course, it would be nice if Capital One was upfront with its customers about the fact that it is asking them to waive legal rights and protections that would otherwise apply if they fall behind on their credit card payments. But we don’t live in a world that it always very nice. Instead, we live in a world in which credit card issuers take a significant financial risk by issuing unsecured debt to consumers, who buy things that are almost always worth less than the retail price as soon as they come out of the box. Card companies make up for that risk by charging very high interest rates, which is
fair. Then they try to reduce the risk for which the high interest rates compensate them, which may be fair or unfair depending on the specific steps and the manner in which they are carried out. Credit card companies have been known to try to get consumers to “reaffirm” debts that would otherwise have been discharged in bankruptcy – a practice that is almost never in the customer’s interest. They have been known to try to get relatives of deceased cardholders to pay debts for which the survivors are not legally liable. For some card issuers, and probably more third-party collectors, whatever works and is at least arguably within the law is OK. Just because something is legal, however, doesn’t mean customers have to put up with it. Assuming Capital One’s review doesn’t lead to any changes, customers who don’t like the contract can take
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traditional thinking about retirement has been stood on its head. What you might not realize is how these factors are compelling Boomers to unearth potent creative energies not only to survive, but to realize potential that evaded them in traditional work roles. Bywill Agriculture Secretary In 2014, we see growing evidence Vilsackaccentuated by of this Boomer Tom Renaissance, waves of self-guided thata Whileentrepreneurism most people have alchemizes commerce, survival and selfmental image of research actualization into a new world and self view. that involves scientists in The Winter Trends Journal will explore this lab coats, bubbling test compelling 2014 trend in depth. tubes and beakers, and technical language Digital Learning Explodes: Fears that can seem complex, much of the groundbreaking research conducted by USDA scientists actually ends up on your plate, in your home, or on your back. Their discoveries in the lab truly translate into science you can see. For example, many of us make a conscious effort to eat healthier and cut calories, but it can be tough when faced with a favorite likeforFrench are included free snack, of charge; middlefries. and USDA scientists high school age. have figured out a way to make French fries Before Representative Sean healthier. Patrick Maloney frying, exposed to will be scientists the keynote speakerpotato at the strips Antioch aBaptist few minutes of infrared heat. This forms Church’ s annual Reverend aDr. crispy outerLuther shell onKing the outside of the Martin Jr. Memorial Scholarship Banquet on Friday, 10th, fries, which helps to reduce theirJanuary oil uptake at 7pm. Contact the church office at 914and ultimately reduces calories per serving. 241-0189 for ticket information.
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won’t apply to you. You can ignore them if you choose. I just wouldn’t take the bank’s word that it won’t really spoof your caller ID. I would assume the right asserted in the agreement will be used for telemarketing purposes to the extent the law allows. If this bothers you greatly, get a card from another bank. If not, you can live
If you’re a cat person, you may someday see USDA science impact your pet. USDA scientists have developed a kitty litter product that’s nearly 100 percent biodegradable and made from spent grains, often referred to as dried distiller’s grains (DDGs), leftover from the process of making corn ethanol. DDGs are often used as cattle feed, but this new product may provide a higher-value market for the tons of DDGs leftover after ethanol production. And, to the delight of farmers and people with noses everywhere, USDA scientists are part of a team of researchers investigating ways to combat the brown marmorated stink bug, which in addition to having a distinct odor, can also cause serious damage to valuable agricultural crops. These are just some of the ways that research conducted by USDA scientists
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and our partner research institutions touch your daily life. Beyond that, agricultural research also helps to boost the economy. Studies have shown that every dollar invested in agricultural research returns $20 to the economy. In the past five years alone, research by USDA scientists has led to award of 215 patents covering a wide range of topics and discoveries. One of our research agencies, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), currently has 380
active licenses of ARS-developed technology that are supporting new businesses and job opportunities across the country. The recently-signed 2014 Farm Bill will help to build on these accomplishments by establishing a new research foundation that leverages private sector funding to support groundbreaking agricultural research. You can follow our progress in implementing the new farm bill and establishing the research foundation at www.usda. gov/farmbill. Thanks to the new Farm Bill, we can continue the vital research and innovation that that have enhanced food safety and nutrition, made farming and ranching more efficient, and improved quality of life for millions of people in the United States and around the world. Tom Vilsack is secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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MUSIC
THE SOUNDS OFBLUE By Bob Putignano For those unfamiliar with Jeremy Baum has been a successful side-man who has worked with many significant artists; Shemekia Copeland, Levon Helm, the North Mississippi Allstars, John Hammond Jr., Jim Weider, Melvin Sparks, Bill Perry, Sue Foley, Debbie Davies, Gil Paris, Chris O’Leary, Vance Gilbert, Slam Allen, Murali Coryell, among others. Baum returns to the studio for his second solo release backed by a stellar cast of New York area musicians; guitarists (previous Mount Vernon resident Chris Vitarello who played on Baum’s first album,) Myles Mancuso, Scott Sharrard who tours with Gregg Allman,) vocals (Chris O’Leary,) drums (Eric Kalb of the Dap Kings, Chris Reddan, Michael Bram,) bass (Matt Raymond, Tony Tino, Anthony Candullo,)sax ( Jay Collins who also tours with Allman), percussion Dave Gross, Juma Sultan (who had brief stint with Hendrix,) Eddie Torres, harmonica (Dennis Gruenling,) trumpet (Phil DeMier,) trombone (Dean Jones.) Jeremy Baum produced the album with guitarist Dave Gross. Baum raised most of the money for this
Jeremy Baum’s “The Eel” Self Released – Flying Yak Records - www.JeremyBaum.com
album from family, friends, patrons, and fellow musicians with crowdfunding at: www.indiegogo.com The album opens with Beck Hansen’s “The New Pollution” with solid B3 grooves from Baum, drummer Kalb punctuates the backbeat with his smart drumming, and Jay Collins adds flute plus a heady sax solo during the fade. Baum’s “Funky Monkey” is oldschool soul-funk reminiscent of what you heard on late sixties early seventies Prestige B3 recordings that also features a memorable guitar solo from Mancuso. This recording’s only vocal track spotlights Chris O’Leary’s voice and harp, Baum switches to a grand piano as the band takes you down to the Crescent City. “Charlie Baum”, authored by Jeremy, is an interesting instrumental that reminds me of a tune that could have been used in a Charlie Brown Peanuts cartoon, with a shuffling Terry Adams-NRBQ backbeat, that also suggests echoes from pianists Les McCann and Ramsey Lewis. Baum’s “Pacific Drive” is like such as Baum (doubling on B3 and electric piano,) Kalb, Mancuso, Tino and Sultan take
us for a pleasurable stroll along the oceanic interstate. James Brown’s “Ain’t It Funky Now” kicks into gear with a searing solo by the underrated guitarist Chris Vitarello who strikes hard on this well-known classic, then guitarist Scott Sharrard starts impersonations of John Tropea’s best work with Deodato, as Baum takes us home on this albums most powerful cover. Baum’s grand piano is so sweet on Prince’s “Purple Rain” with another strong guitar solo from Vitarello. The closing title tune written by Baum percolates, bends and turns as “The Eel” title suggests with all kinds of changes especially when Mancuso’s wah-wah guitar thrusts into overdrive, checkout Chris Reddan’s explosive drumming, and Baum’s creative organ and songwriting skills. Jeremy’s debut, “Lost River Jams”, is another gem that is available on Flying Yak Records, Baum’s band was also featured on “Boogaloo Tribute to Jack McDuff,” and now his ,“The Eel” is satisfying and recommended for repeated listening. Details at: http:// jeremybaum.com For fifteen years Bob Putignano has been
pivotal at WFDU with his Sounds of Blue radio show: www.SoundsofBlue. com - www.wfdu.fm. Previously a senior contributing editor at BluesWax, Blues Revue, and Goldmine magazines,
and Music Editor for The Westchester Guardian. Direct email to Putignano at: bob8003@yahoo.com .
MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR
Obituary Hastings Mayor Peter Swiderski Honors the Late Former Mayor Julius Chemka By Mayor PETER SWIDERSKI Hastings has lost one of its most cherished citizens with the passing of former Mayor Julius R. Chemka on Monday night. Mayor Chemka, or Julie, as he was called by everyone who knew him and loved him (and everyone who knew him did indeed love him) was born and raised in Hastings. One of seven children, he graduated from Hastings High School in 1944 and then served his country in the Army Air Force.
Julie met his wife, Dorothea D. Buckridge after his service in the Army and was married in 1949. They went on to raise five children (Rita, Mary, Julius (Butch), Patricia and Jane) here in town. He served as a Trustee for the Village of Hastingson-Hudson from 1970 to 1975 and then served as Mayor for three terms from 1975 to 1981. He belonged to the Hastings Southside Social and Athletic Club, the American Legion, the Tower Ridge Yacht and Pioneer Boat Clubs. Mayor Chemka was active and engaged in our community his whole life. He was named Citizen of the Year in 1996,
though his clear and deep affection for the Village and his ongoing volunteer activities really earn him more of a Lifetime award. Social and warm, he was always ready with a smile, a kind word, and was truly a gentleman. He will be missed by his surviving children, and grandchildren, and his companion Sue Smith. A Mass of the Resurrection was held on Saturday, April 5th, at St. Matthew’s. The family requested that donations be made to the Hastings Ambulance Corps or the Hastings High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund instead of flowers. I’d like to end with Julie’s own words
when he stepped down as Mayor in 1981: “I also want to thank the citizens of this community for giving me the opportunity to serve. I’ve enjoyed it, its been a great experience and hear this carefully, it’s been a great experience that everyone should have... get involved – you don’t know what its like until you get involved.” Nobody was more involved and a part of Hastings than Mayor Chemka. We will miss him. Peter Swiderski is mayor of Hastings-onHudson. Diect e-mail to: mayor@hastingsgov. org
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so much attention to late abortion. After all, are many abortions performed in the ninth month? Of course not. The purpose of asking about late abortions is what such questions reveal about pro-choicers’ extremist arguments. To oppose some abortion, not only do you need to abandon nine-month arguments, you have to argue for unborn human rights, supporting preborn individuals whom the law and the general public do not currently respect. What anti-abortion arguments do you believe? You will have to offer some. In fact, to defend the killings you do support, you will have to find pro-abortion arguments other than the core arguments, and these have to be stronger than they otherwise would have to be since you are making anti-abortion arguments as well. Good luck.
Next, you must draw a bright line which distinguishes two classes of unborn. The first group are those you say have the right to live, while the second class are those you believe can be legitimately destroyed. When you draw the demarcation line, ask yourself, “Am I to define the line or am I to discover it? Is it enough that I am satisfied with the line, or does it have to involve something objective that can persuade others to agree with in principle? Am I claiming that the line distinguishes human beings from nonhumans? Or am I claiming the line separates human beings with a right to live from human beings who are disposable? Do I have the authority to decide that some human beings don’t have the same right to live the rest of us have?”
PRO-CHOICE
Dear Pro-Choicer, Do You Oppose Any Abortion? By CHRIS ROSTENBERG Dear Pro-choicer, Please choose whether you support legal abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, under all circumstances, even for unborn who could survive outside the womb … or if you support some abortion, and believe other abortion should be illegal. Please choose now. If you chose nine-month abortion, unconditionally, I will point out that your position is violent, extreme and unpopular, although I thank you for participating. I will not try to persuade you and you may stop reading now. If you chose the latter stand, the “prosome-abortion and anti-other-abortion” position, as I hope you did, I would like you to know that it is difficult to defend that position. I believe that to successfully oppose any abortion and advocate for at least some unborn babies, you have to cease endorsing the abortion you support. Specifically, you need to abandon all arguments that demand nine-month abortion under all circumstances. For example, if you oppose any abortion, you cannot say that the practice should be legal on the following grounds: • the government has no right to make abortion illegal
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• a woman’s right to control her body grants her the right to abort • the fetus is not a person until birth • illegal abortion is unacceptable because it leads to the deaths of women • only the woman and her doctor get to decide • the unborn are expensive and burdensome to the woman, family and society. The six contentions above make up the entire core pro-choice argument. If you don’t believe them, you’re not pro-choice, and if you do, you are a nine-month pro-choicer. That’s why pro-
extremist. Since you oppose some pre-birth infanticide, you yourself believe: • the government has the right and obligation to legally protect at least some unborn children from abortion • a woman’s right to control her body does not necessarily grant her the right to abort and kill her child • the unborn is a baby with rights before he or she is born • if and when abortion becomes illegal, some women will get illegal abortions, some of them will be injured and some
“I’m much too strong not to compromise.” Don’t Look Back Boston choicers chant, “Abortion on demand and without apology!” These six claims have been designed and disseminated to promote unqualified prenatal homicide. Often, when people use these arguments, they are unwittingly insisting upon abortions they themselves don’t even believe in. Where many anti-abortion people will try to disprove the core arguments, I will simply point out that you yourself do not believe them unless you are a nine-month
of these injuries will be fatal. This is acceptable to counter the destruction of at least some legal abortion. • men like me and people like you sometimes have the right and obligation to employ the government to prevent women from aborting • the fact that the unborn is expensive and burdensome does not necessarily justify killing him or her. One might object to my bringing
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Dear Pro-Choicer, Do You Oppose Any Abortion? Continued from page 9
There are problems with drawing a line, with trying to protect some unborn children while killing others. Third month, fourth month, fifth month, sixth … can the killing be contained? Months are
based on the cycles of the moon … have we plunged ourselves into a moon-worshipping cult to justify child sacrifice? Are we to have nurses stand by with calendars and stopwatches saying, “Kill the fetus now, Doctor, while you still have time. You
have ten seconds … five, four, three, two, one … Murder!” If you are in fact separating human beings into two classes, you have torn down a sort of dam. That dam is the principle that all human beings have an equal right to live. To protect the children you believe have the right to live, you need to
build a second dam that is stronger than the first. That is because by negating the first dam, you have advanced the cause of killing. But how in the world can you provide a principle more powerful than the equality-of-human-life ethic? You must say to your peers, “You do not have the right to kill these unborn
children,” which is rather difficult to do while you are also saying, “I have the right to kill these other unborn children.” If one person can declare those pesky little babies to be disposable, who can’t? Yours in searching for common ground, Chris Rostenberg
location “at that instant” (there may be many paths through the “net” that could be taken – and might be off-line or having problems at that instant. The DNS “knows” to send the material by a different route). This ability to “automatically route around problems” is extremely important. The telephone system built a circuit for every phone call – for instance, if I were to call my office, my phone was connected to my central office which through a series of connections was connected to the central office serving my office and then to the office; if one of those intermittent lines had a problem, the connection was broken and the conversation was over. Not so with the Internet – like a New York City cabdriver confronted with a traffic jam, the Internet simply finds another route around the problem. This ability is particularly important in keeping communications open in the case of regionl or national disasters, The flexibility of this design led innovators to come up with other things that could be done on this infrastructure. The most used new innovation in the early days was e-mail. Ray Tomlinson, its developer decided that the format of an e-mail address would be “user@place.typeof-place” (the part after the ”@” is called the domain). The user had to be unique at the particular domain (there can be many “joe”s throughout the Internet but only one joe at AOL (others can be “joseph” or “joey” or “joe1” or “joesmith” but not “joe”). The standard that Tomlinson devised was eventually codified as IEEE X400 and published. The necessity of adherence to a standard means that any software developer writing an e-mail program for a computer, tablet, or smartphone must go to x400 and conform to its specifications. While the e-mail screen may look very different on computers, tablets, or smartphones because of screen sizes, once the e-mail leaves the device and goes off into the net, they all look exactly the same. The understanding of the TCP/ IP standard led developers to create new applications for the Internet such as “newsreading” and organization of Internet
material (“gopher”, “archie”, “WAIS”, sty.) but one had to understand the often arcane commands to utilize these functions and the early Internet was populated, by in large, by technologists and academics. As the use in other areas grew, the Dept. of Defense split ARPANet into two separate networks, “MilNet” for use by the military and “NSFNet” for other uses with the management of the latter turned over to the National Science Foundation. Since NSFNet was funded by taxpayer money, its use was supposed to be educational (as well as social) but not commercial. If this prohibition was violated, Internet users were quick to call out the violator, often by “hacking” into their account and disabling them or by harassing them in an attempt to drive them off the Net. This restriction also changed when commercial companies, such as PSI, Sprint, and AT&T, set up alternate “backbones” (NSFNet had been the only backbone – the “pipe” or wires through which all traffic must pass) – now the Internet could be used for commercial business but the technology was still too un-user friendly to be very useful in that regard. This, too, soon changed dramatically with the advent of “Mosaic,” the first graphic browser for the World Wide Web (often referred to as simply “The Web”), The Web had been designed by Tim BernersLee as a method of moving between sites in finding desired information but, in its early stages, it was all text and required the user to know something about an Internet function known as ‘telnet,” When Marc Andreessen and his graduate school colleagues at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, introduced Mosaic, the door was opened for end users, knowing little or nothing about computers, to use them effectively to gather information, communicate with others, and shop. In the twenty years since Mosaic first reached the public, its use has spread around the world and increased geometrically. The explosion of the Internet has spawned major companies – Yahoo,
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, to name a few – and has resulted in the on-going push for connectivity “all-thetime, every place”, with smartphones and tablets and public Wi-Fi “hotspots” providing the growing connections. While all these changes were going on, two things remained constant: All material on the Internet was treated the same as far as delivery speed was concerned. There was no special processing or rates for large users – nothing like UPS’ different rates for “next day delivery” vs “two-day” or “five-day.” Domain names and IP addresses (the 12 digit unique number) were assigned in the United States – first by an individual, Jon Postel, a researcher at the University of Southern California and by “ICANN,” (“Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers”), incorporated in California on September 30, 1998, (with entrepreneur and technology analyst Esther Dyson as founding chairwoman) under contract with the United States Department of Commerce. These constants are now changing and there is much criticism of the changes. What will the impact of these changes be? What will the impact of IoT be? What will Virtual Reality bring to the Internet? What impact will the TV systems of Amazon, Apple & Google have on our Internet use? Will we yearn for the “good old days?” In short, what will our Internet future be? Stay tuned! Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining the impact of constantly accelerating technology on the world around us. These changers normally happen under our personal radar until we find that the world as we knew it is no more. Next week -- Whither The Internet? Part 2
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
Whither The Internet? By JOHN F. McMULLEN There are possibly massive changes afoot for the “Internet-as-we-know-it,” some positive, some possibly negative, and some definitely negative. Sound confusing with “possibly” ... “possibly” ... “possibly”? That’s because it is! Actually, the Internet has been changing since its inception by the “Advanced Research Projects Agency” (later – and now – the “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,” “DARPA”) during the “Space Race” years of the 1960s and ‘70s. Some may not remember the national paranoia that existed after the Soviet Union launched “Sputnik,” the first satellite in space. We were in the midst of the Cold War – it was really a hot Cold War – both the US and the Soviet Union had “the bomb” and we had seen what atomic bombs had done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and there was great animosity and mistrust between the two sides. Now, the other team – the “bad guys” to the US – had something flying over our heads, something that could contain cameras to watch us or even bombs to drop on us. Moreover, Sputnik was an affront to our national pride. We had won World War II not so much because of the bravery of our Armed Forces (the Germans and Japanese fighters were brave too) but because of our technological innovation and our manufacturing – we developed the Atomic Bomb, we out-produced all other countries in the manufacturing of jeeps, tanks, weapons, and naval vessels, and we began work on the first electronic computer, “ENIAC” (completed too late to be of use in the war effort). US citizens had laughed at Soviet claims that it had developed the first televisions and other new devices and its military vehicles – tanks, etc. – always seemed clunky compared to ours – but now, it had obviously leapfrogged the US
and jumped into space. This began the Space Race, first under President Eisenhower and then under President Kennedy, who promised to “have a man on the moon in this decade” (and we did). There were many innovative byproducts that came out of the Space Race, including the microprocessor and what became the Internet. While the Internet was originally conceived as a way for scientists to exchange research papers for peer vetting, the beauty of the architecture made it a technological platform that was open to any new application which adhered to the standards. Think of the infrastructure of New York City – there are streets, bridges, tunnels, and highways. There are very simple rules – obey street lights and signs, stay to the right, and give pedestrians ”the right of way.” The basic rules for the infrastructure say nothing about the many types of vehicles that utilize it – cars, trucks, motor scooters, motorcycles, and pedestrians – these each have their own rules – different licenses, helmets for the motor scooters and motorcycles, seatbelts in cars, no “jaywalking,” etc. In technology, we call theses rules “standards.” Standards are simply pieces of paper describing what has become the accepted way of doing things and the way that must be adhered to by developers coming up with new plans, programs, or systems. The standard for the Internet is “TCP/IP (“Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol”) and it describes how the infrastructure works – an important point to understand here is that each computer or intelligent device on the Internet has a numeric address so when a user sends e-mail to a friend at AOL (aol.com) or dials up Apple’s web address (apple.com), there is a device and software (called a “DNS” – “Domain Name Server”) that converts aol. com or apple.com to its numeric address, determines the best way to send the mail or direct the web browser to the desired
John F. McMullen is a writer, poet, college professor and radio host. Links to other writings, Podcasts, & Radio Broadcasts at www. johnmac13.comhttp://www.johnmac13. com/.
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EYE ON THEATRE
From Middling to Worse By JOHN SIMON People who place a mirror above their conjugal bed are voyeurs or narcissists or both. I am similarly dubious about a musical like “If/Then,” featuring such a distractingly overhanging mirror. But then I was worse than dubious about this team’s previous success with “Next to Normal.”
The idea here is to contemplate what might have happened to a person for taking one small but crucial step rather than another. The show is a celebration, as its final lyric restates, of “What if?” It tries to look at potential alternatives, but to really investigate them, it would have to be way too long, which it may be even as is. Significantly, the heroine, Elizabeth, is known to some as Liz and to others as Beth. She was a teacher of city planning in Phoenix, whither the husband she has just divorced took her, and, twelve years later, is a civil servant in New York’s Department of
City Planning, for which a former classmate, Stephen, now married, recruited her. We start in Madison Square Park, where Lucas, a political activist and likewise former classmate is waiting for her. Also waiting for her is Kate, a black, lesbian kindergarten teacher, who is now a neighbor of hers. Gradually, she is friends with both Kate and Lucas, a bisexual, and becomes involved with a handsome stranger, Josh, an army
doctor, who has already done a couple of tours of duty in our foreign wars. Josh accosts her in the park, is rejected, but follows her around, and is finally accepted as a lover. So now our heroine has both an academic and a political career, and three men to be more or less intimate with. Out of this, the bookwriter and lyricist Brian Yorkey, the composer Tom Kitt, and the director Michael Greif have constructed a show that, among other things, aims to be a kind of valentine to New York City, as well as a provocative web of
relationships that includes lesbianism, male bisexuality, multiple beddings, a song based on the f-word, and a chorus of random New Yorkers, some of whom have small roles, as well as both comedy and some tragedy. Could anyone ask for more? Well, perhaps not for more, but certainly for better. For starters, Kitt’s music is about as undistinguished as music can get, and while Yorkey’s lyrics are adequate, his plotting is overambitious and ultimately underachieving. There is even such a thing as “Beth’s Theme,’ music so instantly forgettable that its many recurrences don’t even register as such Mark Wendland’s décor, usually twotiered, feels overworked, what with lots of trees on the upper level, not to mention a kind of luminous subway map of New York (as well as a three-dimensional model of the city often displayed). Kenneth Posner’s lighting is suitably tricky, but Larry Keigwin’s choreography is a trifle nondescript. As the double Elizabeth, Idina Menzel (darling of youths since her Elphaba in “Wicked”) lives up to her meaty role, or roles, in “If/Then,” and certainly can belt out a song with the best (and loudest) of them. Anthony Rapp is a likable Lucas, LaChanze a charming Kate, and James Snyder a handsome Josh; in lesser parts, Jenna Colella as Kate’s lover, Jason Tam as Lucas’s lover, and Jerry Dixon as a possible third lover for Liz or is it Beth? acquit themselves honorably. But what does it all amount to? A show that ends by repeating its beginning, but even so does not shed any meaningful light on the profound question it seems to be belaboring. Venue: Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 West 46th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Tickets: www.TicketMaster.com or (877) 250-2929. With another, very recent and better “King Lear” fresh in the memory, a further one seems somewhat redundant. But that is what we get from Theatre for a New Audience, which has imported for the lead the noted British actor, Michael Pennington. Now “Lear” is a very great play but also one very difficult to produce, partly because of some of its inconsistencies but more so for its enormous demands. An additional problem is the existence of two different versions of the play, roughly describable as the Folio and the Quarto readings, each of which has good things the other lacks. Choices must be made, bound to make for some dissatisfaction one way or the other. This one, directed by Arin Arbus, has the temerity of adding an unwritten scene,the suicide of the Fool, inadvertently resembling the recent one by Mick Jagger’s girlfriend.
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As usual with TFNA productions, what may be fine for new audiences, if any, there is much that older, more experienced audiences can justly question. Thus Kent’s disguising himself as Caius and not being recognized by Lear, is improbable at best, but when played by the only black actor in the cast, becomes preposterous, regardless of Timothy F. Stickney’s good performance. Pennington is a decent actor, and though, like almost everyone here, taking liberties about when to shout and when to mutter, his Lear is at the very least tolerable. But that is not good enough for this extraordinary role requiring more than just adequacy. This, though, we do not get. The wicked Edmund and worthy Edgar (Chandler Williams and Jacob Fishel) are fine, and so are the evil daughters, Goneril and Regan (Rachel Pickup and Bianca Amato). But we would have expected
a little more from Graham Winton’s Albany, and a whole lot more from Christopher McCann’s boring Gloucester. But, as so often, the biggest problem is the Cordelia, here Lilly Englert, a typical modern teenager of little-girl voice when it can be heard at all. No wonder the French army, led by her, is defeated. Most disturbing perhaps is the inattention to detail Thus Edgar, disguised as Poor Tom is properly near-naked and begrimed, but how does he, at the supposed cliff of Dover, suddenly sport jacket, shirt and pants? Bad enough that soon thereafter (and this one blames Shakespeare for) appears in warrior attire. And how explain directorial blindness that reduces the mad king’s sporting touchingly a kind of portable garden, this is reduced here to a couple of twigs? Moreover, some of the great lines in which the play abounds are thrown away. Granted, they shouldn’t be declaimed in the equivalent of boldface, but neither should
they be diminished to near-asides. Matters are not helped by Ricardo Hernandez’s set, which carries minimalism to absurdity what with one measly piece of furniture or whatnot per scene, like the ludicrous little bedside table in the coronation hall. You have to be a more (or rather less) than merely new audience for this “Lear’; you had best be a benighted one as well. Venue: Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Tickets: 866-811-4111 John Simon has written for over 50 years on theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National Review, New York Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. He reviews books for the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post. To learn more, visit the www.JohnSimonUncensored.com website.
GOVERNMENTSection GOVERNANCE
Working Session in Bedford By RICH MONETTI On Tuesday night, April 1, 2014, before the Bedford Board met for their monthly meeting, members discussed capital projections for the Highway Department, the Police and Parks and Recreations in a two-hour long working session at the Town Court on North Bedford Road. Police Chief William Hayes led off with a discussion on the level of police presence the town currently employs and what it means to the community at large. “The 40 sworn officers provide the town with a minimum level of service,” said Hayes. On the public safety side, the total means that each hamlet has at least one car on patrol on a 24/7 basis. It also provides that if a house is broken into, a car stolen or crime is reported, a detective is always assigned to the case, advised Hayes. This leaves 70% of the workload on
service related duties such as traffic and emergency response. As such, minimum means overtime fills the gap that the optimum level of 45 satisfies, and that calls into question whether fatigue keeps the force from delivering the necessities Bedford requires. Board Member Peter Chryssos boiled the concern down to its simplest form. “I hear more people complaining about the tax rate than the level of police service we receive,” asserted Chryssos. With that, Department of Public Works Commissioner Kevin Winn detailed the upcoming projects that are in store – beginning with the relocation of the Recycling Center on Adams Street. “We’ll use that space to improve salt and sand operations during the winter,” said Winn. The nearby maintenance building for town vehicles will be upgraded and hopefully extends the life of the fleet. The fueling station will also undergo an upgrade in its drainage system. “We want to be better able to protect the
environment,” advocated Winn. “The aging fleet also needs addressing,” said Winn. “Six to 13 trucks were down after the big storm last year, and we need to keep up our fleet, and the retirement of two vehicles in use for well over a decade is a good start,” Winn emphasized. Finally, for his part, Winn called attention to the need to upgrade the town’s water infrastructure. “We had twelve water main breaks last year,” recollected Winn, “and funds are in place to replace older valves.” Winn then gave way to Bill
Heidepriem of the Parks Department, and the discussion turned to the proposals on his docket. $125,000 in funding would go to replacing the pedestrian lights between the basketball court and Higgins Road, the paving from Higgins to the pool house, and enlarging the storage facility for pool equipment. “The lights are high priority as a safety issue, the paving could still wait two years and the storage space is a moderate need since the state of the equipment is in question,” noted Heidepriem of Bedford Memorial Park. At the Katonah Memorial Park, $160,000 worth of upgrades were proposed for the two-year period. Wildwood Road becomes a challenge to park every softball season and could use seasonal parking, advised Heidepriem, as he proposed overflow parking in the small lot by the Katonah Shelter. Toward that end, moving the softball field out about 20 feet toward the pitcher’s mound could create space and spectator safety with a new backstop. A new seasonal storage facility is also a high priority. “The equipment right now takes a beating throughout the season,” said
Heidepriem. Heidepriem also proposed a wooded area management plan to keep tree systems healthy. “Trees are expensive to take down and represent a hazard that must be addressed in a timely manner,” said Heidepriem. Moving onto Bedford Hills Memorial Park, Heidepriem outlined $125,000 worth of upgrades that began with the basketball courts. “We’d like to create two regulation size courts and two half court baskets,” he said. Finally, the tennis courts in disrepair ended the evening. As such, Heidepriem proposed a two-year temporary fix to the numerous cracks lining the surface. But longer range, a floating surface system promises to hold the seal for 25 years. Juxtaposed to Heidepriem, Board Member Peter Chryssos questioned the wisdom of the temporary fix when the town could go straight to the long-range plan. “It’s all about stretching out the cost,” said Supervisor Chris Burdick, and left the session at that. Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since 2003. He lives in Westchester County.
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the law — is terribly compromised. As NYU Professor Paul Light points out, there are too many decision-makers, too many bases to touch, too many layers of management, too many managers in each layer, and too little accountability. These are crucial matters to fix. Not only do Americans want to see better performance from their government, but federal executives — including the President — cannot achieve their policy objectives unless those under them are competent and high-performing. We have to rethink and transform how government does its business — not just on a one-shot basis, but constantly. Light has probably thought harder about these issues than anyone else inside or outside government, and there are a number of recommendations he and others make: — We have to cut the number of political appointees. In the federal government alone, they number roughly 3,000, and often don’t win their positions by merit. — We have to reduce the layers of management, and reduce the sheer number
of people employed by government. — Outsourcing has gotten out of hand. In theory, private-sector contractors save taxpayers money. In reality, Light’s research shows, they can cost us twice as much. — Current civil service rules make it almost impossible to hire, promote, and fire based on merit. That has to change. Government today is highly pressured and deals with tough, complicated problems. It needs to be able to recruit and retain firstrate talent; you don’t want a second-rate lawyer negotiating a nuclear arms treaty. Unless we deal with these problems, failure is baked into the system. The American people have to demand that the President and the Congress not just enact legislation, but also implement and manage government programs effectively and efficiently.
CONGRESS
Time to Fix Government By LEE H. HAMILTON Americans want to see better performance from their government. Where to start: cut the number of political appointees, reduce layers of management, reform the civil service, and rein in costly outsourcing. In 1965, the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills, brought legislation establishing Medicare and Medicaid to the floor of the U.S. House. That was my first year in Congress, and I remember vividly the moment when Mills came to the Democratic caucus to explain his plans. Many of us had been swept into office in the 1964 Democratic wave that accompanied Lyndon Johnson’s election, and we had an overwhelming majority in Congress. We could pass any bill we wanted. But Mills argued forcefully that we shouldn’t. It
was crucial, he said, that we get bipartisan support for the measure: passing the law was one thing, but what really counted was its implementation. With bipartisan support, the odds were much higher that the highly controversial measure could be rolled out effectively. So despite the grumbling of some members of the caucus, Mills made significant accommodations to find common ground with Republicans, and eventually 70 of them — half their caucus — joined us to pass the bill. Mills was playing a very smart game. What he understood was that in the end, Americans’ lives would be affected not by what happened in Congress, but by what the federal government did with the law it was handed. There are times these days when a story like that, about someone in Washington caring about the government’s effectiveness, feels as quaint as a tale about knights
and dragons. Plenty of good, competent people serve both in Congress and within the ranks of the executive branch, but after years of abject failure — from the response to Hurricane Katrina to the initial rollout of the Affordable Care Act to the cost overruns, delays, and mismanagement that too often characterize federal programs — it’s hard to argue that the government is filled with people who know how to make it a model of efficiency and effectiveness. Some are too busy just trying to carry out policy. Others think government’s too big; they’re not interested in improving it, just in cutting it. Some use government to help their friends and allies. And some in Congress will be darned if they’ll let a drive for efficiency close a military base or federal office complex in their district. I’m reminded, though, of a famous quote by Alexander Hamilton: “A government ill-executed, whatever may be the theory, in practice is poor government.” Our government has become so big, complex, and riddled with competing agendas that its performance — its ability to execute faithfully
Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.
GOVERNANCE
Two-Legged Skunks and the Encroaching Drought By LUKE HAMILTON
Disturbing news coming out of Sacramento, Commiefornia. Droughtlike conditions in Southern California have forced wildlife to venture closer to civilization than normal. Not only has Michael Moore been spotted crawling out from
under a (very large) rock, but increased numbers of skunks have been reported near Sacramento. As if that weren’t bad enough, many of these skunks are rabid and aggressive towards residents and their pets. Since this is Commiefornia, it’s likely that various environmental groups are creating taskforces to protect the poor rabid beasts from oppressive animal
Mother skunks give birth to litters of two to ten young each year, usually in May. The babies follow their mothers around for several months, leaving in late July or early August. Photograph by and courtesy of Gordon and Cathy Illg / Animals Animals—Earth Scenes
control officers… This sounds familiar. America also has drought-like conditions forming. The Recovery Summer of 2010 has
faded to the Winsome Winter of 2014 and prospects are beginning to wane. The mainstream media are trying their hardest to maintain the charade, but they
can only distract our attention from Toto pulling back the curtain for so long. We have an unsustainable fiscal policy, which must have been drawn up by a band of drunken sailors on a 30-year bender in Margaritaville. We have an unsustainable social policy that subsidizes mooching on
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the Middle Class’s dime. The President seems to be lining his nest in anticipation of his departure from public office in 2016. He has sent more Americans into poverty on food stamps than any other President in history: 46.8 million Americans on food stamps as of March 7, 2014. But the more Americans in poverty, the more potential communities the President will be able to organize in 3 years, thereby generating a self-sustaining client base for his return to private sector rabble-rousing. We have a housing market which remains isolated from market pressures and checks. Banks are being bribed to artificially inflate home values by holding onto more foreclosed inventory than they have disclosed via so-called “vampire REOs”. In this case, the lender has foreclosed on the property but is allowing the previous homeowners to continue living in the home. Last fall, Realtytrac reported that a stunning 47% of bank-owned
homes are still occupied by their former owners. These properties are not tracked as foreclosures or even as shadow inventory, since they have not entered the foreclosure pipeline yet. The housing bubble has been patched and is being inflated once again. On top of off this domestic economic strife, there exists more instability around the world today than any other time in recent memory. The number of insurgencies, revolutions, nascent dictatorships, and fiscal difficulties in various parts of the globe seem to be increasing exponentially. Our enemies have been trying for years to hamstring the Dollar by convincing OPEC to dump it in favor of another currency. Today, there seems to be enough anti-American sentiment, combined with a weakening dollar, for this movement to potentially gain some traction. Our allies don’t trust us. Our enemies don’t fear us. And even we don’t like us. This is what 6 years under The Great Uniter has given us. It’s becoming clear that we have a
skunk problem too. There are elements in any society which are dangerous, aggressive, and potentially lethal. Normally, they wait until there is a sufficient amount of social decay to provide cover and then they strike. Just this week, the media has been covering a strike by union workers in Las Vegas, but they haven’t been reporting the whole story. As Tom Blumer at Newsbusters wrote over the weekend, these culinary workers are striking over Obamacare. That’s right, 99% of the Local 226 in Las Vegas voted to strike, in order to protest the effects of the law they helped create. The reason is that Obamacare considers their gold-plated union healthcare plans to be “employersponsored plans” and therefore they do not qualify for federal subsidy. The union currently covers 100% of the premium payments for their members and they want Joe and Judy Taxpayer to help them do so, going forward. Like the skunks out in Commiefornia, Big Labor will continue
their rabid assault on our local municipalities and businesses, even as belts continue to tighten and budgets are habitually trimmed. There has also been an increase in asocial predators, looking to take advantage of undermanned police departments and unprepared citizens. These have been as isolated as the “lone wolf ” attacks in Newtown, Aurora, and Ft. Hood; but they have also become endemic as the rise and spread of the Knockout Game across dozens of American cities demonstrates. With an ideological thug like Eric Holder running the Justice Department and police forces dealing with reduced headcounts and aging equipment, these attacks will continue unabated. Are we destined to become prey? Either taxed into a pulp by Union-backed politicians or mugged for our possessions by lawless thugs (but I repeat myself )? Hell no. Not if we remain vigilant. As has been discussed previously in this column, there is no excuse for being unprepared for the future. The writing is on the wall; it’s
on the ceiling, the doorframe, the floor and the back of the door too. Global unrest is rising and America will not be immune. There is gnashing of teeth right outside the door and this President’s incompetence is about to unlock the deadbolt. Predators and stray beasties seek soft targets. Don’t allow yourself to be one. Strengthen your mind and your mettle and as always, keep your powder dry.
is telling of the political shift in discourse. “Social issues, generally, I don’t take a position,” he said, according to Politico. “I stay focused on jobs and kids.” Snyder has also taken pains to distance himself from Schuette’s appeal, emphasizing that the attorney general operates independently. Just because Schuette’s office acts independently, however, doesn’t mean the attorney general’s hands are tied. Attorneys general around the country have refused to defend their states’ gay marriage bans in the face of the growing judicial consensus that such bans are unconstitutional. Contrary to Schuette’s position, an attorney general is not required to defend a statute that is legally indefensible. Holder recently said that it was appropriate for state-level attorneys general to stand aside in “exceptional circumstances,” The New York Times reported. Citing Brown v. Board of Education, Holder said, “If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.” Schuette and Snyder’s flavor of Republicanism continues to damage the GOP brand nationally, particularly with young people of all parties and with independents. From a legal perspective, the same-sex marriage ship has long since sailed. Probably within five years, and certainly within 10, the matter will be settled
in all U.S. jurisdictions. But it will take much longer than that for voters to forget the actions of Republican politicians who make a show of standing in the chapel door, saying no to couples who want to affirm their love and share their lives. The correct response to any couple choosing to tie the knot, as several hundred Michigan couples legally did before the Sixth Circuit’s stay, is to wish them good luck or mazel tov. The appropriate sentiment is never “not in my backyard.” The dwindling number of Republicans who can’t see this are destined to be stuck in the political tar pits. The best their party can do is try not to be caught in the mire with them.
Luke Hamilton is classically-trained, Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon who happens to be a liberty-loving, rightwing, Christian constitutionalist. When not penning columns for ClashDaily. com, Hamilton spends his time astride the Illinois-Wisconsin border, leading bands of liberty-starved citizens from the progressive gulags of Illinois to [relative] freedom. Hamilton is the creative mind/voice behind Pillar & Cloud Productions, a budding production company which resides at www. PillarCloudProductions.com. He owes all to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose strength is perfected in his weakness.
CURRENT COMMENTARY
Literate and Illiterate Republicans By LARRY M. ELKIN It seems to me that Republicans currently come in two flavors: the kind that can read handwriting on a wall and the
kind that can’t. Michigan’s governor and attorney general are, evidently, the second type. After a federal judge ruled last month that Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, many couples hurried to take advantage of the legal window to say their vows. But the state’s attorney general, Bill Schuette, filed a notice of appeal that prompted the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, to stay the judge’s ruling. The state’s governor, Rick Snyder, has said Michigan won’t recognize the marriages that legally took place between the ruling and the stay, at least not while the stay is in place. Telling couples with legal marriage licenses that the state will ignore their unions, even though the stay issued by the Sixth Circuit happened after the fact, is short-sighted at best, especially when Attorney General Eric Holder has
Couples in line to receive marriage licenses in Washtenaw County, Mich. Photo by Kelly Kline.
announced that the marriages will be recognized by the federal government. “These Michigan couples will not be asked to wait for further resolution in the courts before they may seek federal benefits to which they are entitled,” Holder said. Snyder would have been wise to say the same, but he and Schuette seem determined to forge ahead in a battle their side is already well on its way to losing. Another example of this Republican blindness to the inevitable can be found in Arizona, where the Legislature passed
a bill allowing restaurants, florists and other private businesses to refuse to cater to same-sex couples on the grounds of the business owner’s religious beliefs. But Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, vetoed the bill. The state’s two U.S. senators, Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake, also both came out against the legislation, mirroring the growing gap between the two wings of the GOP. Though Michigan’s Gov. Snyder has made the wrong call, even his attempt to portray himself as fundamentally neutral
Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, has provided personal financial and tax counseling to a sophisticated client base since 1986. After six years with Arthur Andersen, where he was a senior manager for personal financial planning and family wealth planning, he founded his own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew steadily and became the Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to Atlanta in 2008.
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Yonkersites Pay $75,000 to Lobbyist Patricia Lynch to Do What?
Was Lynch Involved in Promoting Yonkers Board of Education Into a Department Before the $55 Million Deficit Was Revealed? By HEZI ARIS The Yonkers Board of Contract and Supply (BoCS) was cal to order for a meeting on December 26, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. of the many issues brought before the BoCS, for this article, we will refer to the Corporation Counsel – General Municipal Law (GML) 104b which speaks to awarding Patricia Lynch, a former NYS Assembly Speaker, now of Patricia Lynch Associates Inc. a contract, noted as Requisition (Req. 109257) at an annual cost of $75,000. The Annotated Agenda for the Meeting stipulates the purpose “is to assist the City with promoting and advancing the legislative agenda of the administration, in addition to tracking, presenting, and following the City’s agenda before the Legislature”. While many may infer the word “with promoting and advancing the legislative agenda of the
administration” to infer The People’s interest is to benefit from this contract, it is well known that Yonkersites have no clue what the Patricia Lynch lobbying firm has ever accomplished for the Public interest. What is known is that one-time NYS Assembly Member Mike Spano worked for the firm. Patricia Lynch Associates has never submitted a report divulging that to which her firm has been engaged, nor has she given proof of that which satisfied the task she was charged. No records or reports have ever been made public. Ms Lynch is a former top aide to the NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. She is regarded as one of the most influential lobbyists in Albany. Those authorized to cast a vote on Procurements Subject to General Municipal Law (GML) 104b – Not Subject to Competitive Sealed Bidding were Deputy Mayor Susan Gerry, representing Mayor Mike Spano, and Commissioner of Finance and Management Services John Liszewski,
City Engineer Paul Summerfield, represented by Vincent Massaro, then Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick, and Yonkers City Council Majority Leader Wilson Terrero.
When was the actual contract between the City of Yonkers (CoY) and Patricia Lynch Associates Inc. signed; were any communications and/or instructions given to Patricia Lynch Associates Inc. with respect to the Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) and the proposed “Department of Education”? Did Patricia Lynch Associates Inc. do any promotion and/or advance on CoY’s agenda regarding New York State’s authorization to create a Municipal Department of Education and/or other education related items? Was NYS Speaker Sheldon Silver lobbied by Ms. Lynch to endorse and approve the City of Yonkers requests? Normally, the Courts (Federal and State) have consistently found that it is illegal, if not unconstitutional to use public resources and funds to “influence and “advocate”. There is not much difference between the definitions of ”influencing” and “advocating”
also never be placed in our sewers as it is a major contaminant to our entire water system due to the growth of a dangerous bacteria. Spring also brings out more residents as cabin fever finally ends. The proper maintenance of sidewalks is the first step to making the Village more pedestrian friendly. Homeowners are responsible for
the maintenance, repair and replacement of the sidewalks adjacent to one’s home. If in disrepair and not remediated, our Public Works Department will issue a “duty to repair” notice. In turn, the Village is responsible for all curbing throughout the Village. The incredibly inclement weather kept so many of us home and the traffic in
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versus “promoting” and “advancing”. It is hard to promote and advance without influencing and advocating. The definitions may be nuanced, and subtle at that; at issue is whether Ms. Lynch was hired to lobby for Mayor Mike Spano’s agenda regarding the transformation of the YBoE from an independent entity to one of a department of the city, and/or whether the mayor’s agenda was in accordance with the Yonkers City Council majority? Was it legal to use public funds without at first informing and seeking authority and public input over whether municipal control was appropriate? Is it legal for a governmental body to use public funds and resources to hire a political lobbyist to ”promote” and ’advance” a legislative agenda? Many questions heard about the City of Yonkers and City Hall and the Yonkers City Council are timid and/or afraid to inform The People. Why? Do Yonkersites deserve an update of what “our” lobbyists task is? You know it is!
MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN GOVERNMENT
Plants, Lawns, and Green By Mayor MARY C. MARVIN As spring weather will hopefully grace the Village soon, it is time to put the shovels away and think about plants and lawns and green. On the municipal level, the Village continues to care for all lawns and open spaces by mulching in place, leaving grass clippings as fertilizer and keeping all of our properties pesticide and chemical free so children can sit on the grass and dogs may roam. Many of the lawn chemicals used by local landscapers and first popularized in the 1960’s are just by-products of chemicals produced for use in the war and are now only being tested for their true toxicity and duration of potency. Pesticides remain on lawns long after the little yellow flags are removed. The “toxic” time period on those signs is simply a Legislative compromise between the regulatory agencies and the chemical companies and is not based on scientific studies of the life of the particular chemicals. If you choose not to use grass clippings for mulching or composting, we ask
that you bag them for disposal. We can remove bags much more frequently and cheaply as well as eliminating the pungent smells that emanate from the decomposing grass piles that fill the streets, leading to slippery road conditions. Of even greater importance, after rainstorms, these piles clog our sewers severely impeding needed drainage run-off. As a benefit, if grass clippings are bagged, twigs and other yard waste may be comingled in the same bag. As soon as the weather warms up, hundreds of lawn sprinkler systems will be reactivated. Given the almost obscenely high cost of water in our area, it is incumbent that we find ways to conserve both our wallets and a diminishing natural resource. Environmental experts recommend watering lawns only once a day and in the early morning when evaporation is at its lowest, thus maximizing the effectiveness of the water. Sprinklers should also be carefully calibrated to ensure that water is never directed onto sidewalks or driveways. Any other property run-off from gutters or sump pumps needs to be directed to grassy areas and not onto the roads or into storm sewers. Pet waste must
our Village stores suffered in consequence. As the weather improves, please use our sidewalks to head to our business district. Keeping purchases local keeps needed monies local, contributes to our sales tax revenue, saves on fuel and ancillary transportation costs, encourages a walking environment, fosters a human connection
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Plants, Lawns, & Green Continued from page 15 between merchant and customer, reduces local property taxes and increases home values. As illustration, for every $100 spent in one of our locally owned independent
businesses, $68 returns to our Village. The same amount spent at an out of town mall returns $48 home and if purchased on the Internet, nothing is returned to Bronxville. With equal importance, it is plain to see none of the Internet merchants are donating to our schools and churches. In the same spirit of local conservation and stewardship, Westchester County
now allows us to recycle cereal boxes, phone books, pizza cartons, corrugated cardboard, glossy magazines and inserts, aluminum foil and trays, egg cartons and detergent bottles in addition to the obvious materials. Similarly to shopping locally, this Village stewardship practice translates into significant tax savings. Our cost of
“dumping” non-recycled garbage into landfills or burn facilities costs upwards of $180,000 and rising yearly. In contrast, there is no removal or “tipping fee” for recyclables, rather we receive money from the County’s Material Recovery Facility based on the amount of goods we deliver to be then sold to manufacturers.
Ending on the same theme, the Village’s Green Committee will have a “Take Back” Day on May 10th, which is also the opening day of our outdoor Farmers’ Market.
is why politics is so disheartening. This is not a piece to pillory Rob Astorino who I believe in his heart is not as extreme as the makeover he is now engaged in. It is, however, my meager indictment of a system that has become a game. Unlike Monopoly, men like Rob Astorino play it with the money of contributors when running, and ours after they take office. It is a system so cynical, that Rob’s handlers are probably happy he is lampooned with blazing guns alongside bloviating mouth breathers. Lets end it right here at home. One wonders how long it will be before the people who voted for four more years of that handsome face and boyish charm, realize that they got just a few short weeks for their effort. What is more, did they really know who they voted for?
insight into the present situation that the Cuomo operation is threatening to revive the Liberal Party if the WFP doesn’t toe the line. It’s not clear what the WFP will do, or who its third-party candidate will be if party leader Dan Cantor doesn’t run. But the very soul of the WFP and its ambition to be the national force for progressive policies are at stake. If economic justice defines what it means to be a progressive, they have one hell of a choice to make. Maybe it’s easier than that. FDR and Teddy knew. Visionaries bring change; deal-makers go the way of the Liberal Party. First published by the Albany Times Union on March 30, 2014.
Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of Bronxville, New York. If you have a suggestion or comment, direct your perspective by e-mail to: mayor@vobny.com .
POLITICSSection CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Astorino Phasing into the Fringe what he said. Rob Astorino was as handsome as Jackson and boyishly charming as the YouTube Beiber. Was! A few weeks ago, Astorino headlined an event to militate against Obamacare and the federal government’s positions on affordable housing in Westchester County; the latter a fight which became an underpinning of his campaign efort. While courageous and true to his word, the blowback to his refusal to abide by lawful directives is beginning to cost Westchester County jobs born of the federal grants that have been discontinued. Like Iran or Russia, Westchester is the target of U. S. sanctions. As for the former, choosing to join the Anti-Affordable Care Act crowd, places County Executive Astorino in
league with those whose dishonesty, reckless rhetoric, think Sarah Palin death panels, and cold heartedness, knows no bounds. On the subject of the company one keeps, check out the Bramhall’s World cartoon in last Wednesday’s, April 2, 2014, edition of the New York Daily News. Less kind than I, Bramhall scorched Astorino by caricaturing him and his support of the sick NRA (National Rifle Association) rally in Albany by depicting Astorino brandishing two assault rifles while standing behind equally armed sketches of Donald Trump and Carl Paladino. Say it ain’t so Rob? If New York has any two well-known, well-off people with wrongheaded ideas, I would like to meet them. Is getting the Republican nomination so meaningful that he is willing
to tarnish his reputation in this way? Next, seemingly out of the blue, Astorino challenges the new Common Core education standards by announcing that he would be pulling his three kids out of the state tests insisting that Common Core, “May actually lowers standards,” over time. Fair enough. Trying to figure out education policy is like trying to find a golfer who keeps an honest score. But the kicker here, and remember there are quotation marks on what follows, is that Astorino said that schools may be set to become “Centralized organs of the federal government.” Such talk has compelled an editorial in the New York Daily News. To be fair, I am not sure if they are fans of Mr. Astorino; they call him: “The de facto head of the fringe movement of parents” against the Common Core. Fringe? Extreme? Guns blazing? Keeping health care away for those who need it? Really? This
Cuomo’s Season of Discontent
trouble. But the Cuomo operation is decisive and effective. This was the road they chose. Their calculation that the left would settle for social issues was simply wrong. In the last month, revolt was in the air. The Working Families Party, public sector unions, the Greens, and the activist base said, “Enough is enough.” Billy Easton of the Alliance For Quality Education crystallized the discontent by repeatedly calling Cuomo “Governor 1 percent,” and it stuck. An earlier WFP idea to put Cuomo on its November ballot line in exchange for full campaign finance reform got tossed, partially because it didn’t look like it would be in the final budget and partially because the WFP rank-and-file wouldn’t swallow it in the face of the tax and spending cuts. It’s not as though this will deny Cuomo re-election. But it’s probably enough to keep him around 50 percent
of the vote, and prove that “progractionary” politics is not the future of the Democratic Party nationally. For progressives and for the WFP this is a turning point. The social issues are important, on the merits and politically. But no movement can walk away from its base and from its founding principles and remain effective. The WFP has become New York’s most muscular and principled political operation by never forgetting the economic message: WFP stands with and for working people, poor people, and middle-class people as they struggle to survive income inequality and economic hopelessness. The old Liberal Party started on that road, but lost its way. It became the party of bosses, patronage and political deals. It finally collapsed when Andrew Cuomo’s abortive run for governor in 2002 left it short of the 50,000 votes needed to appear on the statewide ballot. It’s some
By BOB MARRONE It is painful to watch. Like Michael Jackson’s face morphing from a handsome African American male fifty shades lighter into an odd androgyny, or Justin Bieber’s devolution from nice kid to annoying orifice, it is hard to witness the recent actions and proclamations of County Executive Rob Astorino. While he certainly won office, twice now, on right leaning principles of fiscal sanity and low taxes, his appeal was augmented by a bearing of reasonableness, inclusiveness and integrity that garnered votes from large numbers of centrist and liberals; most of whom are Democrats. I have in this space said this before; he said what he would do and did
By RICHARD BRODSKY For some, the recent explosion of discontent on the left came as a surprise. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had been an effective and strong liberal on identity and social issues like gay marriage, gun restrictions and abortion. What’s all the fuss? The fuss is about what it means to be a progressive on economic issues. Since the Roosevelts (Teddy and Franklin) a progressive was, above all else, someone who fought for the economic interests of the poor and middle classes. It was the ethical and political core of left-wing politics in New York and nationally. Back then, progressives excoriated the “plutocrats”; today, it’s the “1 percent.”
Here’s where Cuomo went wrong. From his first days in office, he adopted classical austerity, supply-side economic policies that are beloved of the tea party and the Republicans, and anathema to the left. Tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, spending and service cuts, attacks on public sector labor unions, corporate subsidies and more recently opposition to minimum wage initiatives. There were exceptions, like a partial rollback of an earlier tax cut for the wealthy, but the policies and the rhetoric were clear. New York would be restored to prosperity with policies that Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz would applaud. Some of us pointed this out two years ago, defining Cuomo as a “progractionary” trying to marry left social politics with right economics. We predicted
Bob Marrone is an author and freelance writer for The Westchester Guardian.
Brodsky is a fellow at the Demos think tank in New York City and at the Wagner School at New York University.
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Seeking to Curb the Cultural Decline By BOB WEIR Unless you’ve been residing on another planet for the last several years you know the name Rick Santorum. The former 2-term U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and 2012 candidate for the Republican nomination for President has become a prominent figure in national politics, barely losing the GOP nod to Mitt Romney. His Christian faith and conservative values were eloquently stated during a series of televised debates that dominated the political landscape for several months. Santorum received enough delegate votes at the convention to come in third behind Romney and Ron Paul, despite having officially released his bound delegates to Romney. One can only imagine how much better the Senator would have done if he had spent even half the money that Romney spent in the most expensive campaign thus far. Santorum is spending a lot of time in the Dallas/Fort Worth area these days, but he’s not looking for votes. As the CEO of Echolight Studies in Flower Mound, Texas he’s turned much of his attention to producing movies that tend to accentuate the best qualities of the human race, rather than the usual violent, sexually explicit and mind-numbing verbal obscenities that the Hollywood community spews into our psyche each year. In late November, his first movie, “The Christmas Candle,” opened to audiences in about 390 venues, earning roughly $1.6 million in the first couple of weeks, just about equaling the cost of production. However, if you think that’s a sign of failure, I’d remind you of another film that had similar results, but went on to become a classic and a staple of Christmas television around the world. In its initial release, “It’s a Wonderful Life” didn’t come close to achieving its production cost, even with major stars like James Stewart and
Donna Reed. Just last week, Echolight’s “The Redemption of Henry Myers,” a western that was filmed on the same set as the 2007 Russell Crowe hit, “3:10 to Yuma,” had its World Premier on the Hallmark Movie Channel. During an interview with Senator Santorum at my Flower Mound home, he talked about his new vision. “For a long time I’ve wanted to get conservatives more interested in the media and movies in order to have an impact on the culture, instead of allowing Hollywood to define our society,” he said. “A local (DFW area) supporter of mine, who is also an investor in Echolight, asked me to join him in this faith-based venture. I began as a board member and was soon raised to CEO.” In order to keep from having his reputation tarnished, Santorum insisted on creative signoff for anything connected with the company. “We have a movie coming out this fall that we will be distributing, as well as another one, made in Waxahachie, Texas that will be coming out next year. In addition, we’re talking to Hallmark about another launch on their movie channel. After that we have a film coming up that we hope to start production here in the next 2-3 months.” The company recently acquired the rights to a story about a girl from Austin, Texas who was the first non-Russian to dance for the Russian Ballet. The movie will have a larger budget, and most of it will be filmed in the Czech Republic of Prague. “That’s because the ballet theater in Prague is a replica of the Bolshoi, inside,” Santorum said, adding, “You get the identical Bolshoi setting, plus there are tax benefits connected to filming it there.” The Senator said he mainly reads scripts to determine if the stories are good, with interesting characters, and with a faith element to them. “We want to build a brand, so when you see Echolight, you know it’s a movie with a wholesome theme, sort of like
the Pixar of faith and family films,” he smiled. “Not long ago, I read a research group article which found that the number one cultural impact today comes from the movies, but 50 years ago it was the church. Now, the church is number 16,” he said. Along those lines, Santorum has a unique idea. “Suppose we were to release some of our films into churches? There are some mega churches in Flower Mound and surrounding areas that have those huge screens and great sound systems. If we’re making movies consistent with what the churches are teaching, wouldn’t it be better to have people go to the churches instead of a movie theater? They would pay for a ticket to go to church (other than regular church days); the church could sell popcorn, and viewers could also enjoy the fellowship and the opportunity to talk afterwards,” Santorum said. He believes the church would become more of a center of culture by marrying films with our religious institutions, thereby raising those numbers cited in the research. Profits would be shared with the participating churches, adding revenue to their ministries. The movie coming out this fall will be under the name “Echolight Cinemas,” and will be the first to go the church route. The formal announcement will be made in a few months (the Senator gave me the scoop). “We feel that we can get hundreds, if not thousands of churches to participate in this across the country. We want to put them in the center of the cultural discussion. It would be treated just like a theatrical release and they would have a month to run the movie as often as they wanted. After that, we would take the film back and then, in about a month we’d put it out on DVD.” At the end of the interview I was compelled to ask the question, “Will you run for President again?” He replied that he had recently visited New Hampshire and will be in Iowa for a visit very soon. It sounds like he’s keeping his options open.
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engineered dozens of separate votes in Congress to eliminate Obama-Care, which they knew and demonstrated they would loose every time. As some may recall many months ago the President, himself, forecast that Obama-Care would be doomed eventually, actually as soon as it started to began helping millions of Americans. He was so bold as to claim that when this occurred, there would no longer be any Republican incentive, any interest, in identifying the health care Act with him, and the program would revert to its actual, legal title of the Affordable Care Act. “Obama-Care” would then no longer be useful as a political epithet in order to win elections in their hope to complete their total control of the United States government. All they need in their pathetic scenario, after their current Gerrymandered undemocratic control of the national House of Representatives and their grotesque corruption of our Formerly Supreme Court, is to take over
the Senate this fall and, in 2016, install a new U.S. President, perhaps on the model of the formerly favored Governor Chris Christie of Bridgegate and New Jersey. After all, they seem to say, “Wont it be great the get that black man out of our White House?” In fact it now appears likely that the ACA will become the signature achievement of the Obama presidency. After generations of national effort, it has finally moved ahead in its first substantial form. If it continues to grow, it might well become foolish, even un-American to cast the President and those who fought to put it together, in a negative, nasty, villainous slander. But then when has it been peculiar for some political leaders to be stupid. In any event it was classic poetic justice on April Fools Day, after innumerable oppositional elected leaders and their usual sycophants trumpeted the same exact prophetic judgment in dozens of televised speeches, that Obama Care was in a “Death Spiral,” or at least in a “Spiral to Doom.” In keeping with the
theme of April Fools Day, it now appears it may rather be the Spiral to Doom of the Republican Party. As any who owns a television or smart phone could see, thousands and thousands of citizens overwhelmed centers across the nation, in order to sign-up for Obama-Care on March 31st, the last day of the initial insurance enrollment period Despite all the vigorous naysayers, and the early weeks of enrollment computer delays, the forecasts of six million registrants and even the higher target of seven million were exceeded. It is said that the only comparable national achievement for direct benefit to Americans was the establishment of Social Security under the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt in the first half of the last century. Attempt after attempt was made since the end of the Second World War to move on such a health care program. And surely it will be adjusted in the years ahead, just as Social Security required improvements. Even the American Constitution has had to be amended dozens of time. And around the world other nations have built on our Constitution for themselves,
including improvements we have not yet managed to enact for our own nation. In both earlier cases the efforts and resistance was also intense. The royalists always swarm out of the woodwork on such issues. But can any thoughtful, reality based voter swallow the billions of dollars of elegant swill the naysayers will flood our print and electronic media before the fall elections? History says yes, we may once again go like lemmings, following their sweet talk and slick videos. Of course once again good news was followed by the bad on the same day when the Formerly Supreme Court moved to continue the insanity of their Citizens United case and add more insults to the injuries of immense money to swamp democracy in elections. There may be no way, or adequate time, to correct this ugly spit in the face of the citizens who are able to vote, in time to make decent fall elections. The Republicans have been working overtime with their dozens of dirty tricks to suppress voter registration and voting as well as Gerrymandering single-member districts. On top of it all is the simple fact, described in our earlier
Perspective columns, that democracy can hardly survive private money in election campaigns. Time after time it is demonstrated that the Republican Persuasion hates elections. Doesn’t that mean they hate democracy?
Mayor Mike Spano will land so severely on his bald head, that he’ll lose the remaining red hairs left there. Nick will never forget McLaughlin/ Spencer/Spring berating him over inadequate school funding. That harangue would come to eventually cost Nick his senate seat. He will never forget it, and he will never forgive them. Nick will never forget the “Dumbo & Jumbo” nomination that Spencer and McLaughlin and Spring (Kathy Spring Spencer) tagged Mikey and him with, over
Former Senator Nick Spano and over again. Good luck. You are no match for Nick. Watch your backs at all times. Brush up on the “Godfather” movie and the “Sopranos” series.
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Dumbo’s on First, Jumbo’s on Second By ANONYMOUS Not a fan of former Senator Nick Spano, but the amount of wool he’s pulled over the head of McLaughlin/Spencer/Spring and the Irish majority of the City Council in this matter, is amazing. Sadly, for them, they don’t see it; don’t understand it, and are oblivious as to that which Nick has planned for them down the road. First, understand that Nick and his crew never, never, never forget betrayals of the past and their avowed revenge for those past betrayals is as if etched in stone – unchangeable, permanent, forever and as severe as they can make it. In this case McLaughlin/Spencer/ Spring, etc., believe that Nick wanted to partner with them to take control of the schools. He would never partner with them – he hates them; politically speaking (I hate to sound like former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, but he does.). Nick has managed to obtain control of the “administrative” functions of the Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) and place it in his hands, alone. Mikey (Yonkers
Mayor Mike Spano) does the day-to-day work, but Nick and Papa Len (former Westchester County Clerk Leonard Spano) control it all. McLaughlin/ Spencer/Spring and the Irish majority of the City Council have no share whatsoever of that power. In fact, this plan takes away any power that they had beforehand. The most important part of the plan for Nick is to control the Human Resources office at the YBoE. Hereafter, every single job that is given (or taken away) will be given (or taken away) by Nick, not by McLaughlin/ Spencer/Spring or by an Irish majority of the City Council, and they will have nothing to say about those jobs. Unless, of course, they ask Nick to bestow a job or two upon them. Nick will do that but the pound of flesh to be given for each such bestowal will be more like a ton of flesh. In the end, McLaughlin/Spencer/ Spring and the Irish majority of the City Council will be so deeply indebted to Nick that they will be on a short leash, more like a “choker” and a leash combo, and they will be ordered to do as Nick says, in all ways and at all times. They will be neutered.
They have been neutered. Compound this by general spending (contracts) and capital projects (more and bigger contracts) which McLaughlin/ Spencer/Spring and the Irish majority of the City Council will have nothing to say about. This one will especially disappoint Spencer since he loved the good old days with then Yonkers Public School Superintendent Andre Hornsby (now in a Federal lockup for corruption) when he doled out hundreds of millions in capital projects with the naked backyard pool jumper (Thomas Weibrecht) as the front man. I could go on and on, but Nick has even gotten McLaughlin blaming the Albany Delegation for the double cross. How dumb can you get? If McLaughlin/Spencer/Spring believe that Nick has big political futures in store for the “team”, they are even dumber than first thought. When Mikey’s time is done, Nick will install one of the Spano faithful. That won’t be McLaughlin; for sure. When Nick finally does pull the carpet out from under McLaughlin, he
The author is being kept anonymous for fear of retribution by Publisher / Editor Hezi Aris who knows this person to be credible in every aspect of his superlative resume of accomplishment.
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