This photo taken this morning shows just how bad the silt buildup problem is getting in the Bronx River. What once a small mud flat 10 years ago has now grown into a virtual island of rocks and weeds in the middle of the stream. Note the six-foot high vegetation…. Read More →
People sometimes ask me how Roger got his name. As a rescue dog, he bounced around a little bit in life and had two previous names—Seamus and Bain. We did not like either of those names and just thought Roger was better. If pressed, I guess I’d say we named… Read More →
Nothing to report today. Roger spends Wednesdays at Paws and Play, the doggie daycare center in Tuckahoe. He loves playing with other dogs. I expect him to excel in the canine arts. He will be very tired tonight.
Today, I am introducing my dog, Roger, who is a rescue dog from West Virginia. He is a handsome lad, indeed. But we do not know his precise age, though we are reasonably sure that he falls somewhere between 15 months and two years old. Nor do we know his… Read More →
The Yonkers City Council is voting tonight on a defamation settlement with Sam Zherka, the publisher of the Westchester Guardian and strip club owner who is a self-styled agent of chaos when it comes to suing local politicians and generally making life miserable for them. The settlement supposedly involves a… Read More →
Jonathan Winters has received a number of postmortem accolades since his death on April 12 at age 87. He was a true comic genious, who was famous for improvisational humor. Most people remember him for his characters such as the horny old bat, Maude Frickert (Johnny Carson copied her with… Read More →
This one puzzles me. If you follow the news in the city of New Rochelle, you may be familiar with a dispute going on over a Gasden flag that a veterans group hoisted at the old city-owned army on Main Street. The flag is famous, steeped in American history. It… Read More →
Speculation is running rampant on how Assemblyman Steve Katz, R-Yorktown, will defend his pot bust from last week. Here’s some thoughts: 1. THE BILL CLINTON DEFENSE I don’t inhale. 2. THE EUGENE LEVY DEFENSE It wasn’t me. It was a case of mistaken identity. Maybe the guy stopped by the… Read More →
It’s well documented that the 2013 New York Yankees are aged, anemic, injury-plagued and generally decrepit. It seems that every day a player comes down with something requiring long periods of rest and even surgery. To date, the disabled list includes Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson and Mark Texiera—all of them… Read More →
If anyone is an underdog in the race for county executive in Westchester it’s Bill Ryan, the Democratic legislator from White Plains. Without money and still smarting from a failed pay-raise grab when he was chairman of the board of legislators, Ryan is considered to be a definite third place… Read More →