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Consultant Begins Search for School Superintendent

Posted on July 16, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. From City School District. July 16, 2008: About Our Schools, the school district newsletter announced today that Hazard, Young Attea and Associates had been hired at the cost of $70,000 to conduct a search for a new Superintendent of Schools for the district commencing in July, 2009 when the present Superintendent Timothy Connors retires. The firm will begin sampling the wishes of the community for citizens want in “leadership qualities” in a new Superintendent at four meetings in September.

The meetings will be at St. Bernard’s Church, September 14 on Sunday at 12:30 P.M; Monday, September 15 at Bethel Baptist Church at 7 P.M.; White Plains High School on Monday, September 22 at 7:30 P.M. and at Education House, Tuesday morning, September 23 at 10 A.M.

Deja Vu 2002: A determined Dr. Deborah Raizes, addresses the Bethel Baptist crowd at the conclusion of a community meeting in January 2002, on the search that brought White Plains Tim Connors, the present Superintendent. (WPCNR FILE PHOTO)

Deborah Raizes who brought us Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connors will moderate the meetings. The newsletter also reports the seach consultants, which include John Chambers, will meet with groups of staff members, students and others during September.

Georgene Mongarella Named President of White Plains Rotary

Posted on July 16, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR DOWNTOWN. From The White Plains Rotary. July 16, 2008: The White Plains Rotary, the largest in New York State, has named Georgene Mongarella, owner of the design firm The Color Schemer of Scarsdale, as its new president.

In true Rotary fashion, Mongarella is deeply involved in her community. She teaches her profession, interior design, at the Scarsdale High School, and serves on the Board of Architectural Review, also in Scarsdale. She chaired the Scarsdale Showhouse in 2005 which worked to preserve the Rowsley Estate (home of the Scarsdale Women’s Club.)She served on the Board of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) for three years.

She is on the Boards of United Way of White Plains, the Westchester Coalition of the Hungry and Homeless and the Gift of Life (through Rotary 7230) She also serves as a Trustee for the Scarsdale Historical Society and volunteers on design projects for terminally ill children through the Make A wish Foundation.Mongarella is the personification of the Rotary motto: Service above Self.

“I am thrilled to be serving as Rotary president this year, she said, as strains of the tune, “To dream the impossible dream” played in the meeting room. Among other awards she has received were the 2007 ASID presidential award and Westchester ARC’S 2007 Community Image Builder.

Her clients include six of the New York Yankees, one New York Giant, and Nick Wolff of Century 21 Wolff, who sponsored her in Rotary. She and her husband Joe reside in Scarsdale. He is always there for her and to support her goals; her life goal is to make the world a better place. Those who know her well think she is setting the bar quite high for the rest of us.

6 Months, 6 Days Left For The Dauphin to Complete Wrecking America. He Has Time

Posted on July 15, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR The Daily Bailey. News COMMENT! By John F. Bailey. July 15, 2008: Here it comes: Another Presidential Press Conference this morning. Sunday, the Federal Reserve’s genius, “Dollar Ben” bailed out Freddie and Fannie Mae. Yesterday “America’s Dauphin” ordered off-shore drilling for oil. Today, what’s next, a bailout of General Motors? Could we give the worst President in the history of the country the next 6 months and 6 days off? BEFORE he finishes wrecking the country. BEFORE he finishes the job he, big oil, the Wall Street Gang, and the Clueless Congress have done on America in the last 7 years, 6 months and 15 days?

Can County Replace the Clobbered Clock with a Bush Countdown Clock?

Now that an alleged perpetrator has been apprehended in the flattening of the County Countdown Clock at the County Center, surely the Board of Legislators will see fit to erect another one, and this time it’s purpose could be the BUSH COUNTDOWN CLOCK which would countdown the seconds, minutes and days left in the worst presidency of the United States. The Dauphin makes Millard Fillmore, Jimmy Carter, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant look very good right now.

Every day there is a new mind-boggling financial unraveling:profits built on thin air. You see it from the top on down. Jobs are departing. Unemployment rising. The bank runs have started. This is the legacy of the Republican Party of the last twenty years. Make no mistake though. The Clinton Administration ushered in this era of faux profits, zero primes, and financial casinos.

The frightening thing is America’s Dauphin has 6 months, 6 days left. He can do a lot of bad things in six months. Five months ago, the subprime mortgage crisis first came to our attention as a problem. Five months ago, gas was $3.00 a gallon. It is depressing to think it is going to be $6 a gallon in another five months. Five months ago you could sell cars. Now G.M., Ford, Chrysler cannot give their SUVs and Trucks away.

Please, a BUSH COUNTDOWN CLOCK is needed. If we can spend millions on a children’s museum at Playland, it is only appropriate that the legislators living in the dream world, the never never land of the Westchester County Legislature reerect the County Clock so we can cross our fingers each day that we are not all working for foreign countries by January 20, 2009 — the day a new President is sworn in.

Unless of course, “for the good of the country.,” the Dauphin declares Marshall Law and takes over the country like Robert Mugabwe to save us from Barack Obama. (Mugabwe didn’t want to leave.)

I have an idea!

Isn’t there another country The American Dauphin can visit? Quick! Gas up Air Force One and get him out of here. Why couldn’t he have just stayed out of the country? Now he’s back acting Presidential and that’s a dangerous thing for America.

I can’t help wondering about the financial acumen of the Fed Heads, the Wall Street Robber Barons, who saw all this unfolding. What were they thinking? Were they thinking? Could we at least have a statement once in awhile that a lot of smartypants financial geniuses screwed up.

They are not as bright, or as smart as they think they are. They deserve no respect.

Notice though who is getting bailed out. Not you. Not me. Not the pour souls who need help, it’s the rich geniuses, the investment bankers, the derivativites, the air mortgagists who have singlehandedly wrecked the American economy with mythical money, products that do not exist, and products that hurt America and pervert the American Dream. Such men and women of vision.

It all ends January 20,2009, maybe.

Fasten your seatbelt for Day 2,752 of The Bush Presidency. What will happen today?

Every Press Conference is met with apprehension.

Suppressing the Free Press: Who Pinched the White Plains Times Boxes?

Posted on July 15, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. July 14, 2008 UPDATED July 16, 2008 10:45 A.M. EDT: The White Plains Times weekly newspaper reports on its website that overnite last Thursday, an estimated 3,500 papers were removed from its red distribution boxes in the White Plains downtown. The alleged removal has been reported to the White Plains Police. The issue contained two controversial stories, the affordable housing extensions and the announcement of the Anthony Pilla candidacy for Assemblywoman Amy Paulin’s 88th Assembly District Seat.

Pat Casey of The White Plains Times in front of City Hall, 2005, when she expanded to weekly publication. Photo, WPCNR News.

Pat Casey, Editor of The Times, said White Plains Police suggested conducting video surveillance of the red White Plains Times newsstands, and that if it happens again, police said they would start an investigation. Casey told WPCNR she was positive the papers were stolen because similar missing paper incidents occurred last month, which she had not considered thefts at the time. She did not understand what the motive could be for such thefts, but said 3,800 papers were a lot of papers requiring a van and quite a bit of heavy lifting to remove, a concentrated effort.

“It takes a lot of effort to distribute the papers,” she said, and was convinced these were systematic efforts to suppress the paper. She felt neither of the two main stories, “Affordable Housing Stalled,” and Anthony Pilla’s assembly seat announcement were not of a controversial nature. She also speculated that enemies of the paper, even possible competitors took the papers out of the kiosks. She said the paper was holding its own in the market place, though they have cut the number of pages per issue due to rising costs.

Casey said the 3,800 papers out of a 20,000 print run were replaced by extras left over because the schools are closed, and that made up much of the purloined papers.

According to the newspaper, the following events took place overnight from the time the Thursday July 10 edition was deposited in the red White Plains Times distribution boxes, and we quote from the Times website:

Published: July 11, 2008

On Friday morning, July 11, it was discovered by White Plains Times staff members that more than 3,500 newspapers had been removed from the red distribution boxes all over town. The theft occurred sometime between 6:00 p.m. Thursday evening and 8:00 a.m. Friday morning. Not only were all newspapers removed, but the issue placed in each box’s front window was taken as well.

If you saw any suspicious activity occur around any of the White Plains Times boxes please notify us at 914-421-1904 or call the local White Plains Police Department, as a police report has already been filed.

WPCNR can verify that we were suprised on Thursday morning that there were no issues of the Times in a distribution box we passed while shooting pictures of the latest certioraris along Mamaroneck Avenue.