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WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. REPRINTED FROM THE WPCNR NEWS ARCHIVES OF June 8, 2005:
New York State’s first-ever Juneteenth Celebration highlighted by a mammoth parade down Main Street beginning at 12 noon, followed by a Street Festival on Church Street and Martine Avenues will not only recognize the contributions of African-Americans to America, but will feature a historic display of an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
Seth Kaller, one of the most respected American historic document dealers, will display a rare signed copy of The Emancipation Proclamation at White Plains’ first Juneteenth Heritage Parade and Festival at Barnes & Noble in the City Center across from City Hall.
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Abraham Lincoln, was displayed at Barnes and Noble . The exhibit, also displayed nine other documents relating to slavery, emancipation, and freedom, including original letters by Frederick Douglass, the noted oratorian and Lincoln opponent for President in 1859. The historic display was unveiled by White Plains Mayor Joseph Delfino.
Juneteenth commemorates the final implementation of The Emancipation Proclamation by the Union Army on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas (almost two-and-a-half years after the proclamation was issued). The White Plains celebration included a parade beginning at noon on Mamaroneck Avenue, and a festival between Main and Court Streets. It was the biggest celebration of African American heritage in Westchester County.
“I am pleased that Seth Kaller has offered to participate in the Juneteenth Parade and Festival by displaying this historic document. The Juneteenth Parade and Festival is a celebration of African-American achievement, and promises to be a tremendous event here in our community,” stated Mayor Delfino.
According to Seth Kaller, president of Seth Kaller, Inc., “I am very pleased to be a part of this celebration. Without the Emancipation Proclamation, one could argue that America would not be the free and democratic country that it is today. I have to thank the City of White Plains and the Juneteenth organizers for providing this opportunity for people today to see a document that changed the world.”
Kaller is the leading collection builder of American historical documents and manuscripts. He has purchased and coordinated authentication of more than 50,000 documents during the past 17 years, including working drafts of the U.S. Constitution.
Lincoln signed them to benefit the troops.
Partial Exhibit List of Historic Documents On Display at Barnes and Noble at City Center that day as part of the Juneteenth Heritage Parade and Festival:
The Emancipation Proclamation: The Document That Saved America
“I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves…are and henceforward shall be free.” Authorized Edition, with the complete text, signed by Lincoln, William Seward as Secretary of State and John Nicolay, Private Secretary to the President; January 1, 1863 [printed and signed in 1864].
Frederick Douglass on “The price of liberty…”
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance and though I see no immediate danger to free institutions in our country I think every American should be on guard and ready to meet the development of any malign force which may endanger the honor, the peace and stability of this great nation.”
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) letter signed to E. M. Rasafy, 1880, accepting an offer of membership in an organization called the “National Ciphers.”
Frederick Douglass Speech on the Emancipation Proclamation
“I congratulate you, upon what may be called the greatest event of our nation’s history, if not the greatest event of the century. In the eye of the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, there is not now, and there has not been, since the 1st day of January, a single slave lawfully deprived of Liberty in any of the States now recognized as in Rebellion against the National Government…I congratulate you upon this amazing change—the amazing approximation toward the sacred truth of human liberty.”
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) Speech about the Emancipation Proclamation, at the Cooper Institute in New York City on February 6, 1863. Printed in the New-York Daily Tribune, February 7, 1863.
WPCNR THE SUNDAY BAILEY. By John F. Bailey. Republished from The CitizeNetReporter of June 17, 2007:
This week celebrates a great American Father, mine and the other fathers across time who provide an eternal legacy their sons and daughters rely on every day and think about their fathers every day.
Charles F. Bailey.
He is my father. He was born November 17, 1918.
My father gave me four pieces of advice in life: Always drive an air-conditioned car. Always central air-condition your home. Stay out of court.
And, oh yes, don’t sit in traffic. Take the next exit and wing it.
Always take the service road on the Long Island Expressway. (He would have loved a Garmin.)
In retrospect, his advice has served me well. I am always comfortable. I sit out traffic delays in comfort. I have not made lawyers rich.
CHARLES F. BAILEY MY DAD OF PLEASANTVILLE, NY 1918-1986
He was not an emotional man. He was a banker and always wore suits to work. I have fond memories of going to meet him in the days of steam engines in Pleasantville – when train tracks were at grade with Manville Road at the old stone station.
I was most impressed as a young child by how he always smelled of coal cinders when he got off the train – like commuter’s cologne.
Sadly on today’s electric trains you do not get that. And you always heard those steam engines coming. Chuffing doing serious work.
You could see them coming around the bend but you heard then first. Bell ringing,chuffing, puffing : Clouds of very busy, inspiring industrious black smoke streaming at the horizon down the line.
He’d get off the train.
My mother would move over and he’d drive the old Hudson Hornet home. He always spoke quietly. Never raised his voice. Drank scotch and soda in the winter. “G & T’s” in the summer, martinis with George and Howard two close friends. He smoked Chesterfield, Philip Morris, Marlboros, Kents with the micronite filter.
He set up a Lionel train set in our basement – perhaps our unspoken connection. When I was sent in by train for the first time to meet him at the office during Christmas time, he’d have his secretary Margie greet me at Grand Central Terminal which still is a very big and scary place to me .
He would take me to lunch at Jack’s Monte Rosa Restaurant on 49th Street – which I thought was a very great place. Hub bub, tinkling glasses. Sharp-dressed waiters in white jackets black bow ties.
When I first went to it with him, I was a little disappointed that it was not more glamorous but I was really impressed that Jack the owner greeted him by name. I thought that was great that my Dad was greeted with respect.
When I first started working in Washington, D.C. in 1968 I ate regularly at a restaurant below the television station WMAL-TV where I worked, it was called Marty’s Italian Village. Marty, the owner (who looked like Humphrey Bogart, the only thing missing was the white sport coat) started calling me when I came in around 7 PM, ‘Hi John, how are you?” People would look at me. They thought I was big. I liked that. Feeling big in my small world at $90 a week.)
When my father came to visit me in Washington where I worked. I took him around town. I told him when he got off the plane. “Hi, Dad, welcome to my town.” I wanted to impress him. We’re always trying to impress our fathers. At least I was.
Another Father time was when my Dad came out for Dad’s Day at college.
I mean this was a big thing to me. He watched me do play-by-play of a football game from atop the press box in 15 degree weather. It was cold. But he watched. Acted impressed. He hated cold weather. No watching from the warm press box for him.
Another time he impressed was when I lost a job where I was working at the television station that I was being considered for. I told him how unfair it was, he put things in perspective:
“Puggy, he said, “The film manager wasn’t going to put you in as his Assistant if you were going to be bucking him all the time.” It put things in perspective. No false sentiment. No making me feel better, he was tough enough to teach by being realistic while telling me not to feel sorry for myself.
Then later in my career, I was fired out of a job completely blindsided. He again intervened, saying to me he thought what the agency head had done was a terrible thing. I needed that at the time.
He also, in a very supportive move, told me if I could make $1,000 a night writing a free lance direct mail package, I should keep trying to do that.
Dads are there to say the right things to you at the right time. Sometimes it is not always the right thing, but they try. Often, if you’re lucky, as I was, they say the right thing. Always — when you really really need it. Not the wrong thing.
With my father, who was not really my father, since I was an adopted child, it was never all about him, it was all about you. Making me better, even when it hurt him to say things that were the truth.
When I bought my first house in White Plains. He never criticized the house. But when I sold it, he complimented me, “I think it’s great how you came out of it (the crummy first house).” He was a personal trainer.
The good ones train you to run a race. If you stumble, no one hurts more than they do. When you succeed, no one is prouder. The good ones push you in front of the cameras, they say interview her or him. They did it.
They know what you should do, but they can’t tell you, because you won’t do it if you’re a kid.
But the more subtler of them tell you anywayin hopes it will sink into the rebellious offspring mind. My dad was subtle.
Another fond memory: My father took me camping once at a friend’s cabin in Pennsylvania. Funny thing was there was such a great comic collection we wound up sleeping in sleeping bags on the porch of the cabin. That was funny.
Another time when I was being threatened in college over a position at the radio station, I asked him if I should just abdicate and assign a play-by-play position to the person who was being forced on me. He advised me to “stick to your guns,” so I reported the threat to the Dean.
The position was compromised, but I was never threatened again. He never shared my love for baseball and sports. In fact he never played catch with me all that well or that often.
I mean I could have made the big leagues (pipe dream) if he played catch with me more. But that’s a small criticism. I wish I had more of his financial acumen. But I do not. I married that.
As you grow into your 30s and 40s, little things they say to you you begin to understand.
My father never struck me.
He always disciplined me with quiet words. I have not always been that way as a parent myself, being somewhat volatile. I wish I had his even temperament. He always asked me to take care of my mother. And the only time he really got mad at me was when I had made my mother upset with me.
He was a little like Humphrey Bogart in movie roles in the way he disciplined, I remember he would say admonitions quietly. Such as when I got an F in an English course at college. He told me, that was the last F I would get at Ohio Wesleyan, because the next one he would stop paying my tuition.
That had an effect. And that was when tuition was only $3,000 a year.
I have taken to, after my children have grown, telling them always “Be careful,” “Don’t do anything stupid because someone suggests it,” “Do not go anywhere alone without telling people where you are going,” “Don’t lose your temper,” “Don’t tailgate,” “Don’t stand close to the of a sever drop.” In hopes that when I am not with them, they will remember it when they need it.
I think of him every day of my life. I become more like him every day. He is always lingering in the background of my thoughts. I do not know what he would think of what I am doing now. But, he’d say — “If that’s what you want to do. Do it.” He also would say, “You have to make yourself happy.”
I also think, even today of what advice (laconic as always) he’d give me in a situation. I wish I could discuss property taxes with him. Banking today and how it has become a predator system.
I especially have to salute him, because I am an adopted child.
That alone makes me appreciate his love and acceptance with a sense of awe to this day. He loved me like his own son. Because in his mind, I was. He took responsibility. He did what had to be done.
You never outgrow your need for Dad.
The good ones are immortal, alive and with you in your head when you need them. They are ghosts that comfort always. Haunt you in memory.
Immortality is leaving a good memory of you with the ones who knew you.
Because what you give them, lives on for generations.
Your children will talk of you because of the good things and behaviors you gave them when you needed them and you never lose those tools Dad gave you
MIGRANTS FROM NEW YORK CITY HOUSED IN YONKERS, WHITE PLAINS AND ARDSLEY. MAYORS WELCOME THEM!
COUNTY EXECUTIVE LATIMER ON THE MIGRANTS’ ARRIVALS. STATUS OF WASHINGTON AID (NO JUDGES, NO MONEY, NO STATUS COURT) AS HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF HEADS TO SWEDEN
GOVERNOR HOCHUL REVEALS TROUBLED YOUTH AND THEIR PROBLEMS UNVEILS LISTENING TOUR FINDINGS
FULL HOUSE FOR THIRD COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WORKSHOP. JOHN BAILEY TAKES YOU THROUGH IT
YOU ARE THERE!
DR. KATELYN JETTELINA SCOOP: NEW COVID VACCINE COMING IN FALL
WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER.From Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner. June 14, 2023:
(Note: WPCNR this morning asked the Greenburgh Town Supervisor if community groups have been allowed by Dotgo the organization handling care and housing of migrants housed Sunday at Ardsley Acres in Ardsley were allowing community groups to welcome the migrants, introduce themselves and organize activities for children and adults outside the hotel such as trips to parks, schools, playgrounds, church services to give them an experience other than the continued feeling of incarceration. Mr. Feiner wrote:)
I am copying the Mayor of Ardsley since the hotel is in the village.
I support efforts to help migrants have a better quality of life and applaud the Mayor for her compassion.
I think that churches, synagogues should be involved. Many churches, synagogues have social action committees. They have -in the past sponsored immigrants from Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Many people in our communities would probably be willing to help the migrants.
The federal government should also let the migrants hold jobs.
In my opinion the federal government should try to identify jobs that are hard to find employees for -and try to match migrants with those skills with the employers. It would be a win-win.
WIth employment as a possibility – migrants could help our communities and become productive residents.
A few weeks ago, Congress agreed upon a new budget for the United States. Folded into negotiations was the budget for public health, specifically COVID-19 funding. It was all slashed.
This probably makes sense to the average person. We are, of course, in a different phase of the pandemic. One that seems more manageable. Why would COVID possibly need funding?
What the average person doesn’t see is the chaos rippling throughout public health under the surface this week.
This chaos is due, in part, to canceling contracts and entire programs within days—but also to an incredibly defeatist reality: the clearest sign yet that the U.S. is resorting to its roots—cycles of panic and neglect.
This cycle isn’t new.
The cycle of panic and neglect isn’t new; in fact, it even has a name.
The Sisyphean Cycle was coined after Greek mythology in which Sisyphus— a “trickster who receives eternal punishment for trying to cheat death”—was condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a steep hill for eternity. Every time he reached the top of the hill, the rock rolled back down to the bottom, forcing him to start all over again.
Sound familiar, public health world? COVID-19 wasn’t the first boulder we’ve pushed up a hill.
During the 2003 SARS epidemic, for example, a SARS vaccine was approaching phase III clinical trials. We were pushing that boulder up as quickly as possible, and the top of the hill was in sight.
When SARS was (thankfully) contained, research money quickly dried up, no vaccine was made, and the boulder fell down the hill. If we had gotten that boulder to the top, a COVID-19 vaccine would have been developed a whole lot quicker 17 years later.
We in public health were truly hoping that a pandemic could change this model.
Losing 1.5 million lives in the U.S. would surely change something? Perhaps public health could finally be considered in the same tier as medicine or even national security?
Doesn’t look like it.
After giving our all, we are actively watching the boulder roll back down the hill. It’s no wonder public health is made up of exhausted, demoralized souls and empty desks.
It doesn’t have to be like this.
Not every country has experienced the same level of COVID deaths during the pandemic, in part because other countries fixed this perpetual cycle. One example I love is Vietnam.
Vietnam continues to have the lowest cumulative COVID deaths in the world.
This isn’t because they had a magic 8 ball. One major reason is that they learned from their previous mistakes. After an imperfect response to SARS, they changed their entire system through adequate funding and implementation of a national public health response system, core communications, and emergency capabilities. It paid off.
Why didn’t the pandemic change anything in the U.S.?
One phrase: Catch-22.
Some leaders and the public don’t see the value of investing in public health because public health didn’t do well during the pandemic.
But, of course, public health couldn’t do well given a perpetually fragmented, underfunded, public health system that was then politicized. We were fighting a 21st-century health threat with a 19th-century system. Beyond a pandemic, public health works in the background, in an invisible way whose value is incredibly challenging to communicate.
Because of that, decision-makers who support public health are tasked with impossible decisions: Do we keep Medicaid expansions for millions or do we keep wastewater surveillance? I agree with keeping health insurance during this last budget negotiation, as that puts out fires today. But what about the fires in the future?
Beyond the national budget, an equally huge problem is the inability for flexible funding. The CDC, for example, has ~180 budget lines with no flexibility. They can’t move money to where it’s needed during an emergency or the aftermath of an emergency. Losing COVID money today means losing a ton of fixes we implemented in the past 3.5 years.
Congress and Congress alone can fix this.
Bottom line
Public health has brought a massive boulder up the hill for the past 3.5 years. We certainly did not do this in a perfect fashion, but I would argue we did it exactly how we were set up to in the U.S. And because of that, many people lost their lives.
It’s heartbreaking to watch the boulder go down the hill again.
Love, YLE
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COUNTY EXECUTIVE LATIMER ON THE MIGRANT SITUATION IN WESTCHESTER ON MONDAY (CLICK WHITE ARROW TO ROLL THE CLIP)
WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. June 13, 2023:
Westchester County Executive George Latimer Westchester up to the minute on the locations and number of adults and children housed in Westchester County at the close of his briefing Monday afternoon.
As of Monday, he said there are 3 locations where 191 Adult migrants and 72 of their children are now being housed, in the county for a total of 263 in Yonkers, White Plains and Ardsley.
There has been no progress yet on the federal government providing judges to expedite processing of amnesty requests or approving the migrants to work. The agencies supervising the motel locations in the three cities are being paid by New York City. Though, WPCNR notes the Department of Homeland Security has released $193 Million in migrant expense money for distribution shortly to state locations.
To see his Migrants report click the above video on the white arrow, isolating the segment.
In the full briefannounced a series of summer events honoring veterans and celebrations recognizing contributions of nationalities to America in his briefing yesterday, and reported the Westchester housing of migrants currently.
He brought Westchester up to the minute on the locations and number of adults and children housed in Westchester County at the close of the briefing. Currently, he said there are 3 locations where 191 Adult migrants, and 72 children of migrants are now being housed. To see his Migrants report click the above video on the hour, isolating the segment.
You can watch the complete report in the weekly WPCNR presentation of the County Executive’s briefing below, by clicking ON ARROW. ON THE VIDEO SCREEN BELOW. ( Note: Mr. Latimer’s remarks on the migrant situation in Westchester County begin at the 57 minutes after the weekly briefing begins. Go to this link here:
Department of Homeland Security Announces Distribution of More Than $290 Million in Congressional Funding for Communities Receiving Migrants
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), will publish a funding notice under the new Shelter and Services Program (SSP) for more than $290 million to 34 non-federal entities for temporary shelter and other eligible expenditures for migrants who have been processed and provisionally released from DHS custody while awaiting the outcome of their immigration proceedings. An additional $73 million will be made available later this summer.
Since passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) National Board has allocated more than $400 million to support communities receiving migrants across the country, including $332.5 million announced on May 5, 2023 to 35 entities and $75 million awarded by the National Board in December 2022.
Supporting communities is a critical component of DHS’s efforts to manage encounters at the Southwest Border in a safe, orderly, and humane manner. Previous rounds of funding focused primarily on the needs of border communities, and this round increased funding for interior cities receiving migrants while maintaining a significant percentage for border communities. DHS recognizes the needs of communities may change and therefore has reserved $73 million for distributions later this summer.
What is the standard? The effect of printing news not fit to print.
WPCNR REPORTING TODAY.News & Comment By John F. Bailey. June 11, 2023:
Since when is a state convention in Georgia worth covering by a national newspaper based in New York, worth a front page of “analysis”?
It’s not.
When, when in one week the state houses of New York State blamed Governor Kathy Hochul for failure to address the affordable housing needs in the state, when the State Senators and Assembly members simply refused to go along with Governor Hochul’s setting quotas for affordable housing that each town had to provide.
This decision of the affordable housing shortage was simply a perpetuation of the redlining and restrictive zoning that towns and villages have used for years to prevent townhouse developments, small and large apartments from being built in the suburban (read mostly white) communities across the state.
The paper I read this morning has not to my knowledge front-paged that prejudiced, self-interested, “keep-my-constituents-happy policy they decided to support . The Hochul Housing Compact plan provided money for units to be built over 8 years. It required movement on affordable housing developments by the communities. But no, the feckless State Senate by their rejection of throwing out zoning as a restriction to such development, went with their self-interest, continuing to allow prejudiced zoning laws – when everyone in White Plains knows that in White Plains there is always the “Special Permit” process for changing zoning.
This morning’s paper instead analyzed a speech given by an ex-President highlighting a state convention ¾ of the country away.
In a week when, when, this same paper, chose to ignore the State Senate and Assembly swift passage of a bill requested by White Plains to allow White Plains to entertain offers for their parking garage that is part of The Galleria now owned by Pacific Retail Partners (site plan still awaited).
The proposal was sent to the State Senator (Shelley Mayer) who sponsored the bill three days BEFORE the council filed and spread to themselves and city departments. What? That’s what the description of the bill said in the state’s bill description, (received June 2, passed Wednesday June 6, and on Friday it was passed by the Assembly. Now Governor Hochul has to sign it. This was never reported by the paper I read this morning.
This was far bigger a story locally because it affects a major possible development in White Plains and sets a new policy that could affect other developments in Westchester, New York City and Long Island.
So those two stories of tremendous impact on development and addressing needs of Westchester County and all suburbs were not important? Come on: it shows how governments work. They are not transparent to the citizens and they have their own agendas. They do what they want. They use legislation that damages politicians they want to defeat in the future, or get rid of. (See the Andrew Cuomo harassment-resignation scenario).
But wait, you defend the perpetuation of discredited politician’s message to a nondescript state wide convention because he’s national figure? Because he is good copy? Because he is news? The analysis of that speech amplified a message that was neither something new, conciliatory (which would have been news)? The speech they gave “most-important place in the paper” had no news in it.
News, editors, means something people need to know about that affects your life. Why did they need to know what this person said when what could be construed to be a call to take violent action against the higest placed leaders in this country. This is rogue news judgment. It’s chasing readership, advertising dollars because it gains eyeballs.
Oh, there’s another story not being reported.
Sunday most every town supervisor, village head and county leader in the state are outraged that a bill passed by the assembly Friday made all towns villages across the state switch their elections to coincide with national and state elections in November. The bill was sponsored by State Senator Amy Paulin in the State Senate and State Senator from the NY 42nd district.
The trouble is, the State Senate did not tell all the town village and county leaders about it.
What? Three secret Albany decisions passed without telling people they were going to do this?
THAT isn’t news in the opinions of other media other than myself???
Clue to editors: secret lawmaking is news. Coverups are news. Decisions made in secret because a city, or politically connected politicians want them are news, especially when passed in the last week of a state legislature session.
They in their always smug, cavalier cleverness kept it secret. It is defended as saving towns, villages, and counties in the state as a money saving boon for the villages towns and counties. It is derided by the leaders as defocusing importance of local elections.
By the way the Albany leadership put out a news release blaming Governor Hochul for failure to address the housing issue. They did not put out news releases on switching election day or approving the White Plains right to sell the Galleria Parking Garage.
Journalism cannot continue sensationalism without responsibility.
Journalism schools must take a look at the outmoded journalism commandments of their traditions of the past, the very nature of which have been responsible for aiding and abetting the greatest killers and crimes of our country.
There was the usurping of Indian lands under the happy talk of manifest destiny; endorsement of the slave trade, making heroes of leaders of organized crime; the refusal to help the Armenians, not granting amnesty to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany; glamourizing Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Senator Joseph McCarthy, General Patton, and again this morning they did it again on the front page.
The press today is more in love with lunatics who provide good copy. No matter how lunatic they are. Why does the mad bomber deserve a half page obituary? This is another eyeball story today. The death of a mass murderer deserves one paragraph not an apology for the action and what caused it.
Unfortunately this is the perpetuation of judgment of the past being upgraded to give newspapers and media more say in swaying what they think is right or want.
I wrestle every day whether I should report certain stories, press releases, letters and news conferences I can report on (if I chose to).
I weigh whether (if I print it), will I promote a cause/objective that will do harm, incite people to violence, damage a person, hurt progress (see how judgment becomes non objective?)
Journalism has not gotten it yet.
Television news, the business press, the national newspapers controlled by multi-millionaires, use objective reporting to run their pages red with violence and reports of conflicting opinions and covering new leaders and personalities with no sense of news judgment and the lack of news judgment creates.
This has resulted to supporting political positions they see as being to their advantage.
They have consistently covering highly visible, colorful, and outspoken, shout-the loudest Senators Representatives, Governors as news.
Editors have to wake up and smell the coffee—black coffee.
Printing stories recounting lies, threats, exhortations to violence, toying with thousands of refugees and treating them like ant colonies, generate subtle messages to persons who really believe these things that these positions are OK.
Printing polls is another example of printing hypothetical maybe facts. They amplify false support. Lull the public to complacency with over confidence.
The debacle of mistrust in this country has in good part been created by the media of today and the lack of ethics in business conduct in the market place.
Let us start by asking hard questions in news conferences.
Let us stop putting on sensational eye candy of politicians pontificating, leaders giving positive news that isn’t news, analysis that that ignores the consequences of the message.
Get the cameras out of nations not in this country.
Let’s get back to the local the only place that matters to the people who live here.
Report Policy not opinion. What they will do, not what they say others should do. Report specifics.
Stop the coverage of accidents.
Stop coverage of demonstrations.
Stop second-guessing legal decisions, what they mean. You do not know.
Go for the truth always not hyperbole.
Take analysis out of news articles.
The press electronic and print should go with
Who. What. When. Why. How. If they can’t tell you report they didn’t.
Do not print any of the news that isn’t fit to print.
WPCNR ALBANY ROUNDS.Statement From Governor Hochuls Press Office. June 9, 2028:
“Building on my ongoing conversations with President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and House Democratic Leader Jeffries, today I met with White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients to discuss the need for additional resources in New York as we continue to support the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum seekers.
“I expressed our gratitude for the more than $135 million in aid secured by our federal partners for New York City and reiterated we need additional support, including federal lands to use as shelter sites and federal funding to humanely care for these individuals. Most importantly, I stressed the need for federal action to expedite asylum applications and work authorization requests for individuals to allow them to quickly integrate into our economy and our society.
“We are grateful to President Biden and his team for their efforts to assist in the midst of this humanitarian crisis, and look forward to additional support and collaboration.”
