BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,619, June 30, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: No one really knows when mass violence will erupt. The self-immolation of a Tunisian peddler ignited a revolution in that country, but at least 40 similar acts in other Arab counties failed. The odds are against massive violence if Israel extends sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, but Israel’s security …
By Prof. HILLEL FRISCH
Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Socio-Economic Research Scholar, and Hezi Aris Yonkers Tribune Publisher / Editor-at-Large on Westchester On the Level – Wednesday, July 1, 2020, from 10am-12Noon EST
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Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano Appoints Lakisha Collins-Bellamy Newest Yonkers Board of Education Trustee
YONKERS, NY – June 30, 2020 – Mayor Mike Spano today swore in Lakisha Collins-Bellamy as his newest appointment to the Yonkers Board of Education. As trustee of the Yonkers Board of Education, Collins-Bellamy will join eight other members of the Board, which is the official policy making body of the School District. The new trustee appointment comes as Dr. …
Mayor’s Column for the Week of June 29, 2020: Phase 3 Reopening Status of Westchester County
By MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — June 30, 2020 — I have written many times about the historical background of the Fourth of July and its significance as the birth of our country as well as the impetus for many other nations to break the bonds of imperialism. Its importance clearly could never be overestimated. However, as I dug deeper in my reading …
By MARY MARVIN, Esq.
Assemblyman Nader Sayegh Encourages Local Businesses to Continue to Implement Accommodations for Vulnerable and Special Needs Yonkers Residents Throughout COVID-19 Pandemic
YONKERS, NY — June 30, 2020 — Assemblyman Nader J. Sayegh is encouraging local businesses to continue to make accommodations for vulnerable and special needs residents throughout the end of PAUSE (Policies to Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone) related Executive Orders. “Our local businesses have done an incredible job accommodating our most vulnerable residents throughout the first wave of the …
AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT: Governor Cuomo Calls Into NY1 With Pat Kiernan
Announces Individuals Traveling to New York from Eight Additional States – California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Tennessee – Will be Required to Quarantine for 14 Days 1 Percent of Yesterday’s COVID-19 Tests were Positive 13 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday Governor Cuomo: “We now have 16 states that meet the formula for quarantine. That has gone …
Shawyn Patterson-Howard, Mount Vernon Mayor, and Hezi Aris, Yonkers Tribune Publisher / Editor-at-Large on Westchester On the Level – Tuesday, June 30, 2020 from 10am-12Noon EST
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Is It Time To Revisit Corporatism
By OREN M. LEVIN-WALDMAN
NEWARK, NJ — June 29, 2020 — Over the years, the economy has evolved from the small pre-industrial craft economy, where business enterprises were truly small and the path to good paying skilled work was through apprenticeship, to the larger industrial economy based on wage-labor to our current post-industrial economy where firms are large and one is either skilled or …
By OREN M. LEVIN-WALDMAN
Court Jester
By PAUL F. PETRICK, Esq.
CLEVELAND, OH — June 29, 2020 —With America once again mired in turmoil, we all needed a good laugh. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered it. On June 15th, exactly 805 years after the Magna Carta circumscribed the absolute power of King John, the United States Supreme Court once again reasserted its absolute power over us. Gorsuch and five of his colleagues …
By PAUL F. PETRICK, Esq.
Why Has Three Percent Economic Growth Been So Elusive?
By Dr. MARK W. HENDRICKSON
GROVE CITY, PA — June 29, 2020. — Here is an economic riddle that has been puzzling many people: Why has economic growth in the United States remained below three percent for so long? The growth of US gross domestic product (GDP) going all the way back to 1790 has averaged less than three percent in only three decades: the …
By Dr. MARK W. HENDRICKSON