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COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER’S COMPLETE WEEKLY UPDATE OF MONDAY AVAILABLE 24/7 RIGHT HERE AT WPCNR.COM
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WPCNR is pleased to introduce the first prime time rebroadcast of the Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s Weekly Update. it debuted on WPCNR MONDAY 8 PM last night. He gives insights into the recovered funds New York State has given back to the taxpayers and delivers the status of the New York State budget. Click on the video “arrow” to see the complete telecast, including press questions. The Weekly Update will be rebroadcast every week at 8 PM on WPCNR.COM as a public service and will remain all week! BULLETIN announcements at once! You always know you can see the comprehensive, always eye-opening WESTCHESTER WEEKLY UPDATE on WPCNR.COM “Where the news that matters is–ALWAYS”
COUNTY EXECUTIVE LATIMER MONDAY 5 PM STATEMENT ON PLACEMENT OF IMMIGRANTS FROM NYC IN ROCKLAND COUNTY
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66 YEARS AGO IN 1957, FATE STALKED HERB SCORE AS IT STALKS ALL OF US. HE SHOWED US HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.
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WPCNR VIEW FROM THE UPPER DECK. By “Bull Allen” May 7, 2018:
It was a sultry night in Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium 1957 with baseball’s hottest pitching talent scheduled to pitch against the New York Yankees. I will never forget this night.
I was listening to the game on WINS which carried the Yankees that year and Herb Score was on the mound for the Tribe.
He was smoke. As a rookie he went 16-10 in 1955 as a rookie southpaw, fanning 245 batters in 227 innings pitched, a strikeout an inning, and 20-9 in 1956, striking out 263 in 249 innings. His fastball was overpowering, curve devastating, changeup you were never ready for. He was first pitcher in major league history to average a strikeout an inning. His 245 strikeouts as a rookie was broken by Dwight Gooden of the Mets.
Score’s pitching motion was electric, compact and swift, landing on both feet ready to field.
As an 12 year old I was tuned in as the baseball season had just been 3 weeks old. I like to think it was Mel Allen at the mike. Score got the first Yankee hitter, then Gil McDougald stepped to the plate. McDougald lined a pitch right back at Score that hit him in the face, squarely in the eye.
McDougald said he heard the thud of the ball he had hit as it struck Score in the face, saw the blood streaming out. McDougald started to go to the mound, shattered by what his hit had done.
Score was 24 at the time with a great future in baseball. But in an instant, his career was shattered. He took the mound again in 1958, but was not nearly as effective. Never winning more than 9 games in one year. ,
The reason Score said was that he tore a tendon in his arm while pitching on a damp night against the Washington Senators and sat out the rest of the season.
In 1959, he had shifted his pitching motion in a bid to avoid another, similar injury. “The reason my motion changed”, Score told the author of The Curse of Rocky Colavito, “was because I hurt my elbow, and I overcompensated for it and ended up with some bad habits.”
He stayed with the game he loved though, returning as play-by-play man for the Tribe (Cleveland Indians).
In 1964 he became a broadcaster for the Indians where he stayed behind the mike to 1998. His last broadcast was the 7th game of the 1997 World Series, the only Series the Indians had been in since 1954.
Score died in 2008. He is remembered as a reminder of how fate deals you a bad break, and Mr. Score showed fans how to accept one’s fate with grace and perseverance.
Score was a beloved figure in Cleveland, voted a member of the Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame.
PHOTO OF THE NIGHT: FULL MOON AT MIDNIGHT IN THE GREAT NORTHEAST
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DECLARES COVID NO LONGER AN INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY. DR.KATELYN JETELINA TELLS YOU WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AND THE WORLD
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Si quiere leer la versión en español, pulse aquí. Friday, the World Health Organization declared the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This is a huge moment in our story arc of the fight against COVID-19. Here is what it does and does not mean.
What this meansThe WHO Emergency Committee believes three things:
A PHEIC is a key legal mechanism within global health security. The hope is that it catalyzes timely action to limit the societal impacts of emerging risks. Since the PHEIC mechanism started in 2005, a PHEIC has ended five (out of seven) times. So this is a fairly new mechanism. But essentially the end of the PHEIC means:
The WHO now sees COVID-19 as a threat in our regular repertoire of things-trying-to-kill-us. These things will still happen but with less urgency. What it does not meanThis doesn’t mean the end of a pandemic. Declaring a PHEIC is not the same thing as declaring the end of a pandemic. “Pandemic” is rhetoric that governments use as a communication tool—it indicates the widespread occurrence of an infectious disease across the globe at a particular time. In theory, the end of a PHEIC comes far before the end of a pandemic. This doesn’t mean that COVID-19 is gone. SARS-CoV-2 is currently mutating 2 times faster than the flu. We will get future waves, but hopefully these will be “wavelets” given the population-level immunity from vaccines and infections. And wavelets will happen several times a year. The probability of a variant of concern (which would be named Pi) is still ~20% in the next 1.5 years. If one emerges, it would likely cause a tsunami. (We saw something similar happen after the 1918 flu emergency ended.) And we cannot ignore the fact that COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in many countries. This will likely remain for years. This doesn’t mean that we can go back to pre-pandemic times. This does not mean that some countries (cough, cough U.S.) don’t have serious underlying problems that need to be addressed. It’s beyond time to confront the threats to our individual and collective health so we are not in a constant state of emergency. We cannot keep living in a perpetual cycle of panic and neglect. Bottom lineI welcome this decision to end the emergency for the same reasons I thought it was time to end the American national emergency. We now find ourselves in an awkward phase with this virus—somewhere between a full-blown emergency and an endemic state of predictability. (Epidemiologists don’t have a word for this phase.) Use this time to take a deep breath, cry, reflect, hit a pillow, meditate and/or celebrate surviving (figurately and literally) the past 3.5 years. We deserve all the feelings today, especially for those of us on the front lines who sacrificed so much. Today is a monumental symbol of this life-changing event. But then we need to hold our heads high and continue fighting COVID-19 and improving our systems so we don’t repeat our failures. The end of an emergency is the beginning of preparedness. Love, YLE “Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE)” is written by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD—an epidemiologist, data scientist, wife, and mom of two little girls. During the day she works at a nonpartisan health policy think tank and is a senior scientific consultant to a number of organizations, including the CDC. At night she writes this newsletter. Her main goal is to “translate” the ever-evolving public health science so that people will be well equipped to make evidence-based decisions. This newsletter is free thanks to the generous support of fellow YLE community members. To support this effort, subscribe below. |
NEW! INTRODUCING THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE’S WEEKLY UPDATE IN PRIME TIME ON WPCNR THE MAY 1 WEEKLY UPDATE
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WPCNR ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK. By John Bailey Owner & Publisher, White Plains CitizeNetReporter Since 2000 A.D.:
I am going to run the entire future County Executive Weekly Update on WPCNR.com in prime time on the day it is internetcast.
This morning, WPCNR.COM begins a new feature of Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s Weekly Update.
The Weekly Update began in 2019, 5 years ago. It rapidly turned into the Covid Update over the last four years.
Week-in, week-out, Mr. Latimer kept our spirits up with covid figures, often trying to point out to viewers of his reporters what we needed to do to stop the relentless spread of the epidemic, and encouraging with relentless enthusiasm the need to get vaccinated once the vaccines came like the Pfizer Calvary to the rescue in January 2021.
This report is hard to put together every week.
After watching the covid reports and now the Weekly Updates and featuring local Mayors, leaders, County Commissioners Mr. Latimer, reports good and disappointing news in a stalwart “let’s get through it, the only way out is through” optimism that mitigates disappointing news moves on, injecting hope and encouragement.
Not since Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s reading the comics on the radio in the 1930s, FDR’s Fireside Chats, has a leader in this area worked so tirelessly to inform the citizens he governs so effectively and believably.
He has a real ability to do that. He is a natural.
Mr. Latimer is also on the radio every Tues morning on WVOX 1460 Radio 7:10 A.M. live--no tapes for him– on the Dennis and Tonny Good Morning Westchester program.
His Weekly Updates continue faithfully every week, live and delivered without reading a script always looking at the camera. You get more information on the Weekly Update on the county than any other source.
Figures on covid activity are not as timely or informative as they used to be (by New York State decision) and the shadow of the disease seems to be almost under control. I am crossing my fingers.
Mr. Latimer’s Weekly Update has now turned even more informative,to trend-spotting facts, events and efforts that has made it must-viewing for citizens wanting to know what is happening to them
The trouble is the internetcast at 2 in the afternoon is when not many have a chance to see it.
Watching Monday’s briefing last Monday was really packed with information everyone should have heard. It was newsworthy on the situation with the budget effect on Westchester, the impact on citizens’ mental health from a talk by the Commissioner of Mental Health, Michael Orfe and an inside analysis of why the Albany Budget is more of a political process than practical sound management.
I realized that Mr. Latimer will only be doing these 30 to 55 minute Weekly Updates for three more years.
He should get an Emmy for this report.
It is professionally produced by Catherine Cioffi, the Westchester Director of Communications and her crack production staff. It has the always clear and compelling George Latimer “Voice of Reason” as the magnetic personality that sets it apart. It is government communication that is state of the art.
I was slapped up the side of the head after watching this week’s update:
Once his successor comes in as county executive in three years, press opportunities like the Weekly Update will disappear. You will be lucky to even see the next County Executive half as much as you see Mr. Latimer.
The Latimer team assembles Weekly Update over the weekend…for presentation on Monday (it really is an all-week job of scheduling guest appearances, and sorting out what the public needs to know in most often a positive manner.
This is unheard of. A weekly address by a leader revealing plans in advance to people who might be affected by them.
I have had an epiphany. I have realized why these updates are so important and why it is that they be more timely when available.
So with the permission of Westchester County, I am going to run the entire Weekly Update on the WPCNR.com
website on Mondays at 8 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time.
Last Monday’s weekly update of May 1 will be the first such presentation and that is why
We hope you will take advantage weekly with Mr. Latimer’s awesome communcation effort, the Weekly Update with this morning’s first Weekly Update (replay replay replay) of the May 1 report
John Bailey
Owner & Publisher
White Plains CitizeNetReporter
Founded 2000 A.D.
WHITE PLAINS WEEK MAY 5 REPORT on www.wpcommunitymedia. org
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LWVW CHAPTERS PROTEST INDIAN POINT HOT WATER–DEMAND TENTS OVER DOME DEMOLITION.
COMMISSIONER OF MENTAL HEALTH, MICHAEL ORFE ON STATE OF MENTAL HEALTH IN WESTCHESTER
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER RANDY STEIN RESIGNS. ROSEMARIE ELLER VALERIE DANIELI AUTOMATICALL GO ON THE BOARD FOR THE 2 SEATS. LWV FORUM CANCELLED , NO CONTEST.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER ON STATE PLAN TO WITHHOLD FEDERAL MONEY FROM MEDICAID–COULD CREATE DEFICIT IN COUNTY PRESENT YEAR BUDGET
VACCINATION REPORT CARD– COVID AT THE CROSSROADS.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION ELECTION CANDIDATES DOWN TO 2 FOR 2 SEATS. DR.RANDY STEIN RETIRES FROM THE BOARD AFTER 15 YEARS UPDATED
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Dr. Stein at the March 13,2023 School Board Meeting
DR. RANDY STEIN notified the Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Ricca last Wednesday that she was withdrawing from the Board of Education Election May 16, Dr. Ricca told WPCNR today.
Two candidates remain on the ballot: Rosemarie Eller and first-time candidate for the Board of Education, Valerie Danieli
The School Board Candidates Forum scheduled for May 9, next Tuesday, has been canceled, unless another candidate appears.
This would mean that both remaining candidates Ms. Eller and Ms. Danieli are assured of going on the school board regardless of how many votes each receive.
DR. Stein in an interview with WPCNR told this afternoon said she had served on the board for 15 years, and had just retired from her medical practice at White Plains Hospital, and felt it was time. She said she first decided to run for the school board when her youngest chile was a junior in White Plains High School, and chuckling, said her daughter and her friends ran her campaign for the Board.
She told me “I think White Plains is an extraordinary district. We’ve never had a budget defeated here. Our buildings are in great shape.Our advanced learning programs such as XPM are great. Our arts and sports programs outstanding. We are now bring special ed students back to the district because we feel it is better to keep those special needs children at home. We now have interning opportunities for students in the high school. I am thrilled with the White Plains School District! I look forward to mentoring the new person joining the board.”
She said the issues the district faces ahead are the fiscal challenge and the need to educate students of all abilities to achieve the “infinite” “highest” level they can learn, “no matter what.”
WHITE PLAINS WEEK APRIL 28 REPORT ON www.wpcommunitymedia.org “WHERE TELEVISION NEWS BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE LIVES”
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IT’S GALA WEEK IN WHITE PLAINS NY USA, 300 IN IHE COMMUNITY TURN OUT SUPPORTING AND LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER, HONORING THREE PIONEERS OF THE ORGANIZATION WESTCHESTER COUNTY CANNOT DO WITHOUT DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE KEN JENKINS SAYS–RAISES RECORD FUNDS.
STATE CONSIDERS BILL TO CUT BACK LOCKDOWN DRILLS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
COUNTY EXPERIENCING SHORTAGE OF VOLUNTEERS.
MTA ALLOWS SCOOTERS OKS SCOOTERS ON TRAINS, SUBWAYS NOT BUSES
DISCRIMINATORY REAL ESTATE ABUSES STILL WITH US SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PANEL
COREY BEARAK ON CONGESTION PRICING WHERE IT STANDS NOW
DR. KATELYN JETELINA ON WHO SHOULD GET A BIVALENT BOOSTER. THE WEEK IN COVID, HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR COVID IN WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL.
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