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WPCNR VOTERS VOICE. From the League of Women Voters fEBRUARY 7, 2022:
The League of Women Voters presented the new Congressional, NY Senate and Assembly voting districts as approved by the New York State Legislature. Here are your new districts residents of White Plains:
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WPCNR Main Street Journal From the Gedney Association, February 6, 2022:
White Plains has ruled that the acre proposed solar-equipped parking cannopies over residents’ cars at 1133 Westchester Ave has been declared a NON-PERMITTED USE per our zoning laws and regulations. We are pleased that White Plains upheld our city’s integrity around our local zoning and ordinances in the face of inappropriate and aggressive developers.
The upcoming Public Hearing for this Monday February 7, 2022 has been delayed until June 6th – we believe this is just a formality to record the rejection into record given the non-permitted use determination. We are awaiting response from our officials to help us understand the confusing communications around the hearing and will keep you posted should things change.
(Editor’s Note: The ruling is most curious since the city has been constructing solar panels on city Parking lots recently, most notably on the Mamaroneck Avenue and Bryant Avenue public parking facility behind the post office.)
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WPCNR THE SUNDAY BAILEY. News & Comment John F. Bailey . February 6, 2022:
Newspapers, Pundits, Politicians, Governors, Parents, Companies, Presidents are at the urging of fans are choosing to Go for it on 4th Down and Unknown in the Covid Bowl.
That is this coming Super Bowl Sunday. The good news is all over the mediaAAAAAA.
The opinion pushed out as fact on media of all interests and biases are delivering the good news — we have beaten Covid. Now we can go to ‘Back to Normal Week.” In fact, Governor Patrick Murphy of New Jersey says masks do not have to be worn in schools in New Jersey beginning in March. Cross your fingers parents in New Jersey!
Covid is in the rearview mirror and we are getting back to normal after the national 4th massive covid wave in mid-December through January. That is the mantra in the irresponsible media today.
Millions and millions and millions of Super Bowl Parties will take place from border to border Canada to Del Rio Texas West to Monterrey and East to Savannah. South to Miami Beach.
Ten, fifteen, twenty-five and tens more may gather together in in mansions, hotels, cramped apartments and elegant private homes. They will crowd and huddle to watch modern Gladiators compete in the Super Bowl in High Definition across the country with children, young people and parents and relatives present.
Of course being responsible adults and kids, they will all be wearing masks. They will be socially distancing, wearing their masks lifting up to quaff a beer or a drink, chips, dips, platters of antipasto, cold cuts, shrimp, in buffets of bounty from local delis, supermarkets. Eating and drinking for three hours
Every day I read good news. Today, hospitals are saying they are handling the increase in omicron infections well (despite shortages of personnel) around the metro area.
Nationally, not as good. Infections of covid are still running high across the country though they have dropped.
And ever since the infections started to drop, we have heard steady clamorings from parents to drop mask-wearing to schools; among other practices, as well as feel good propaganda from doctors, experts and reporters that it is safe to go back to normal.
We had this virus beaten in June and opened up beaches, bars, sports. Too soon, we got careless with a lead and played zone defense of a sort.
Coming up though is the day when 85% of the country watches the Super Bowl in homes, bars, and large venues nationwide.
Do we remember what happened going into Thanksgiving? Four weeks later we had the highest number of covid cases in Westchester in one day, 7,659 covid infections reported on December 29. Thatr was one month and 8 days ago.
Now we are having next Sunday Super Bowl Sunday. Endless pregame. Endless game. The postgame. Hours of mingling, of course, masked and socially distanced, do you think?
I was reminded of this after a Talk Radio appearance Friday. After we were off the air. The host and I got to talking and he suddenly said, well what about the SuperBowl. I said you’re right that could be a “Super Spreader.”
On Sunday the very act of playing the game will give covid a fresh set of downs on a self-inflicted P enalty Flag for Flagrant Parttying.
Here we are as a nation finally stopping this economy-stopping Fourth Wave caused by opening up the summer too soon because Governor Cuomo and the Albany politicians wanted him out on sexual harassment charges.
Well the opening up gave covid another chance. It grew through the summer because no city or town in this county enforced masking, social distancing, or vaccinations. We gave them but did not make them mandatoru.
After vaccines stopped the disastrous Fourth Wave, schools returned responsibly, the Red Death is finally down and turning into a matter of self-discipline, personal responsibility, and getting vaccinated.
In a typical NFL game result a stupid penalty, a stupid interference, and amateur officiating results in Westchester New York and the nation delivering victory into the waiting jaws of covid defeat, due to pollyanna wishful thinking instead of smart behavior and the irresponsibility of the media which has a vested interested in getting things back to normal too.
Those infections from the unvaccinated, the unmasked at those thousands of parties, spreading the disease with shouting, talking, partying, face to face may spread a 5th SuperBowl SuperWave.
It will not spreading gradually like the third wave but simultaneously into the whole country within 3 weeks like a national covid long bomb connecting like a Brady pass into a prevent defense as covid gets a replay in a redo of 4th Down and Unknown. Thousands more infections and deaths nationwide, not just 15 yards.
In New York we are still fragile in the ability of hospitals to staff druring another serious outbreak and what if the virus mutates again and beats the vaccines?
What if the spread does start again? Instead of oozing in gradually from Orange Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam and Ulster, Westchester and Nassau and Suffolk Counties it will happen in all 9 counties and The Bronx, Manhatten, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens BOOM! as John Madden would describe it.
This game should never have been played due the serious interval we are now in.
It means nothing. It is just entertainment.
just as the Olympics should never have continued to be staged in China because of China’s irresponsible behavior.
February is also a month of other opportunities for Covid to ignite: Valentines Day where going out, sweethearting intimacies could reignite the growth.
There is also the 10-day vacation at most schools in the county. Travel, socialization again a chance to spread the disease.
For your own safety get vaccinated. Continue to mask and socialize responsibly.
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WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. February 5, 2022:
Let’s plan ahead for a NEW SENIOR CENTER in White Plains
The lease on the current rented Senior Center, in the basement of the Armory on Mitchell Place and S. Broadway, will expire in about 6 to 7 years. The Center was flooded in 2021, became unusable, and required extensive repairs. Senior activities have been held in the White Plains Public Library, and before that outdoor in a park. Activities will resume in the Armory basement in the spring.
White Plains needs a new Senior Center befitting a City that is encouraging the building of many more apartments, more arts, and more restaurants. It needs a center to provide space for seniors to socialize, exercise, eat together, and learn and practice new skills.
What should a new White Plains Senior Center include?
It should have accessibility; enough large rooms, and one with a stage, so that arranging a lunch time holiday party won’t preempt popular morning exercise classes; places for informal socializing; a walking track; a library; space for a meal program with up-to-date equipment; a computer room; a room for nurse consultation in privacy; a safe area for drop-offs and for parking; offices for personnel. What about placing the Senior Center on an entry-level floor in one of the new residences to be built on the Winbrook campus?
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What would you like a new Senior Center to include? Have you visited other Senior Centers?
Send your ideas to:
Mayor Tom Roach tmroachwp@gmail.com
Hon. Justin Brasch braschlaw@aol.com
Hon. Nadine Hunt-Robinson nadine.hunt.robinson@gmail.com
Hon. John Martin jmartin@allnyt.com
Hon. Rich Payne RPayne76@hotmail.com
Hon. Vicki Presser VPresser@aol.com
Hon. Jen Puja pujaforwhiteplains@gmail.com
Many thanks for thinking about this exciting project – A New Senior Center for White Plains.
Renee Cohen
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WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2022. By John F. Bailey. February 5, 2022:
Your reporter was queried by a telephone survey conducted this week comparing Mike Spano, Mayor of Yonkers with various politicians and political candidates, asking specifically whom I would vote for if Mike Spano were running against incumbent Congressman Jamaal Bowman currently representing New York’s 16th Congressional District..
The Survey asked a series multiple choice questions of how favorable or unfavorable I would be towards Mr. Spano compared to other candidates.
I frankly was shocked to think why this survey was being done at all. Mr. Spano is clearly a possibility to run for the County Executive Office when George Latimer, the present Westchester County Executive leaves office in 2025.
A news release from Black Democrats of Westchester made clear Mr. Spano is running for first-time incumbent Bowman’s seat in this news release commenting on Mayor Spano’s appearance:
The Black Democrats of Westchester issued a news release today giving details, appearing to confirm that Mr. Spano has his cap set on ousting Bowman in a recently gerrymandered district.
The Black Democrats of Westchester issued this statement on Mr. Spano’s dipping his toe into the radio waves:
“Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano was a featured guest on a WVOX Radio program with Phil Reisman and Matt Richter on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. On the program, Mayor Spano discussed running for Congress against incumbent Representative Jamaal Bowman.
Mayor Spano said live on air, “They should have arrested him [Bowman] for his no vote on infrastructure. I’m a hardcore moderate in the middle, where most of us are, and end up. But the democratic party over the past two years has been pushed to the left, and the reforms, like bail reform, have gone too far.“
The Black Democrats of Westchester County respects Mayor Spano’s choice to run for Congress but strongly denounces the mayor’s insinuation that Representative Bowman should be placed in jail for how he voted.
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