The Not In My Back Yard Hezitorial YONKERS, NY — February 14, 2019 — Amazon representatives attended a hearing in Albany yesterday at which Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris was in attendance. His demeanor was judged by attendees to be combative and desirous for Amazon’s HQ2 to be undermined. Amazon HQ2 had initially intended to build a campus employing …
By HEZI ARIS
It’s Not About Hispanics; It’s About The Law!
By BOB WEIR
Weir Only Human USA — February 12, 2019 — As our country tries to secure its southern border, where most of the illegal drugs and human sex trafficking enters, those who support a border wall are called racists, or anti-immigrant. Incidentally, Hispanics are originally of European descent, therefore they’re from the Caucasian race, meaning if non-Hispanic whites are prejudiced toward …
By BOB WEIR
Yonkers City Council Releases Statement on the Passing of Hon. Leonard Spano
YONKERS, NY — February 10, 2019 —The Yonkers City Council is saddened to hear of the passing of Leonard N. Spano. Mr. Spano was a true public servant, serving Westchester County as a legislator and clerk in a career that spanned decades. He leaves behind his wife Josephine, 16 children including Mayor Mike Spano, 42 grandchildren and 18 grandchildren. Below …
Texas Sheriff Talks About Drugs and Human Trafficking!
By BOB WEIR
Weir Only Human One of the most heinous acts against humanity is the crime of smuggling women across borders and selling them to sex traffickers. Unlike the crime of human smuggling that includes willing participation by the smuggler and the smuggled, for which both can be convicted of a felony, sex traffickers commit crimes against the trafficked persons by using …
By BOB WEIR
Message from Mike
By Yonkers City Council President MIKE KHADER, Esq.
YONKERS, NY — February 3, 2019 — This past week saw a number of items passed by the City Council with bipartisan support, including one aimed at combating “zombie homes,” and another honoring Gerald ‘Gerry’ Blackstone, a community leader who was instrumental in promoting recreation on the Hudson River in Yonkers. I am proud to announce that we have taken …
By Yonkers City Council President MIKE KHADER, Esq.
Young@Heart: “Did You Write and Send Thank You Notes for Christmas?”
By PAM YOUNG
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — February 2, 2019 — With the holidays behind us, it occurred to me to write, once again, about writing the dreaded “Thank You Note.” I know we’re all grateful people and so are our kids, but somehow writing thank you notes looms over us. One survey revealed that writing thank you notes was number seven on …
By PAM YOUNG
Yonkers Police Department Investigate Shooting Death of 17-Year-Old
YONKERS, NY – January 29, 2019 — Today, at approximately 3:09 PM, members of the Yonkers Police Department responded to the area of South Broadway at Vark Street on reports of shots fired; at the same time, two victims with apparent gunshot injuries arrived at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center; one of the victims, a 17-year-old male resident of Yonkers, subsequently …
Young@Heart: “Get Back In the Box
By PAM YOUNG
JANUARY 26, 2019 — “Get back in the Box” doesn’t mean do as Jack-in-the-box does once he comes spurting out to delight a child with surprise, it’s what SHEs (Sidetracked Home Executives) do when they’ve gotten away from using the system in “Sidetracked Home Executives: from pigpen to paradise” the book my sister and I wrote in the seventies. The …
By PAM YOUNG
Message from Mike
By Yonkers City Council President MIKE KHADER
YONKERS, NY — January 26, 2019 — I continue to be incredibly excited by the work of our state legislature in the current legislative session in Albany. In a month where our state lawmakers have made tremendous strides in election reform, expanding higher education financial aid, and more, I am even more thrilled that our state lawmakers are now looking …
By Yonkers City Council President MIKE KHADER
When All Else Fails, Yell “Racism!”
By BOB WEIR
Weir Only Human It’s become axiomatic in our country that anyone who disagrees with a minority group member, or a leftwing radical, will be branded a racist. You believe we need a wall on our southern border to stem the flow of dangerous drugs and human trafficking? You must be a racist! You say Al Sharpton is a tax-evading demagogue? …
By BOB WEIR