The Paper Trail Hezitorial MOUNT VERNON, NY — May 22, 2019 — It was on Sunday, May 19, 2019 that the Mount Vernon Tribune / Yonkers Tribune published the lede: “Mount Vernon Mayor Thomas Arrived in Massachusetts Today, Sunday, May 19, 2019 By Hezi Aris”. That article informed Mount Vernonites that Mayor Thomas had departed Mount Vernon without officially informing …
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Yonkers Political Reckoning
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The Hezitorial That Speaks to Your Future Prospects The standard bearers of Yonkers political outcome have bequeathed a legacy full of promises from which results have been in the majority stillborn. The spin eclipsed discourse. The formula is one tried and true to the City of Yonkers, where voters are shepherded by waiting out the clock, and avoiding definition of …
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THE HEZITORIAL PERSPECTIVE: Former Yonkers Board of Education Trustee Gains Illegal Employment As a Yonkers Public School Teacher’s Aide By HEZI ARIS
YONKERS, NY – September 4, 2014 – On August 26, 2014, Yonkers City Hall advised that Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) Trustee Nydia Perez had resigned from the board. James Cavanaugh, a Yonkers Parking Authority Board Director would shoulder the responsibilities for the balance of Perez’s unexpired term in office which runs through May 2015. As trustee of …
THE HEZITORIAL: Mayor Mike Spano Becomes Ever Proficient in Doublespeak By HEZI ARIS
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano’s administration has become ever more proficient in disguising the truth. They have learned to engage in Doublespeak. Doublespeak has its roots in George Orwell‘s book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Parallels have also been drawn between Doublespeak and Orwell’s classic essay Politics and the English Language, which discusses the distortion of language for political purposes. George Carlin poked fun at …
THE HEZITORIAL: Yonkersites Stand Unsteadily, Betrayed by Promises Not Kept By HEZI ARIS
The Target Development Project – 6th City Council District; and The Yonkers / Bronx City Line Homeless Shelter – 4th City Council District No matter the administration, it is we, Yonkersites, who have permitted ourselves to be toyed with by words devoid of meaning. The very words spoken by the masters we elected to serve us, who we belatedly recognized were …
THE HEZITORIAL: Southwest Yonkers Residents Reject Condominiums Over Community Center Project on School 19 Property By HEZI ARIS
Community Voices Unheard Yonkers City Council Chambers. Photo by and courtesy of Nadia Alexis taken Wednesday, December 3, 2013. >>> The Yonkers City Council’s august chambers had every pew filled to capacity predominantly with people of color. Many of the residents once welcomed to Southwest Yonkers decades ago were welcomed to the City of Yonkers (CoY) when White Plains decided …
THE HEZITORIAL- THE BLUE TRUTH: Disinfecting the Lingering Stench at the Yonkers PBA By HEZI ARIS
On July 05, 2013, Yonkers PBA President Keith Olson, assisted by Yonkers PBA lawyers, seemingly engaged The Quinn Law Firm, L.L.L.C., as if they were in his personal employ as legal counsel. They disseminated a letter admonishing readers of the Yonkers Tribune. The catalyst behind the “seemingly” legal warning stems from concerns over allegations suggesting Yonkers Police Benevolent President Keith …
THE HEZITORIAL: Reality Proves to be the Antithesis of Yonkers’ False Narrative By HEZI ARIS
How can anyone ascribe to the economic development success in the City of Hills? While the Yonkers Public School District is now said to have a dilapidated infrastructure, that is, school buildings in a state of deterioration, defining them to be in an unsalvageable state, Yonkers City Hall has yet to define its position regarding how to resolve this grave …
Yonkers Parks Commissioner Hartsfield Bungles Summer Camp Program
Fires 38 Minimum Wage Summer Camp Counselors The “Camp Rays” program has been offered at four separate school sites throughout Yonkers for many years. The four sites are situated at Lincoln High School, with a maximum enrollment of 216 campers and a staff of 50; Robert C. Dodson School, with a maximum enrollment of 140 campers and a staff of …
THE HEZITORIAL: Sweeping the Dirt Under the Rug in Yonkers By HEZI ARIS
ADDENDUM on Monday, July 22, 2013 @ 9:54 a.m.: Reader exposes lie. See bottom link to the truth. Yonkers has a propensity to speak to and be concerned by issues over which we have little impact. We finger point toward others in an admonishing stance believing we are above the riff raff elsewhere comforted by our self-crowned status. The pain …