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Written by Mark Lungariello
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 17:46 |
We don’t need our garbagemen signing a pledge, enforcing their commitment to collect our week’s trash. Probably don’t need an activist group calling on our postmen not to illegally read our mail. We don’t need a group calling for action to do your job the way you are generally expected to do it. That is, unless you’re a New York politician.
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Written by Judge John Carey
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 17:45 |
William McGurn’s article in the online Wall Street Journal of Aug. 3 entitled “WTC Mosque, Meet the Auschwitz Nuns,” draws an intriguing historical analogy. McGurn tells his readers that some years ago Pope John Paul II asked Carmelite nuns to move their chapel away from the Auschwitz concentration camp site. According to McGurn, the Pope recognized “that having the right to do something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.”
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Written by Mark Lungariello
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:45 |
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He rides the New Haven line into the city and back to Rye each workday and he’s just one of many sardine-canned commuters who’d call himself disgruntled. It’s no shock that he has had enough of the routine he shares with countless other rail commuters. |
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Written by Mayor Douglas French
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 17:26 |
Now it’s time to hear from you
Last summer all around Westchester and Rye, residents began calling for “tax relief.” This past November in the 2010 budget submission, the city manager called for a “reset of local government.” And in my State-of-the-City address in January I called for the necessary changes that will create “fiscal sustainability.” As a result, the City Council and I took the unique step of starting public budget sessions in June – five months earlier than usual. Now it’s your turn – it is time for your voice to be heard.
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Written by Judge John Carey
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 17:59 |
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As the debate un-folds over whether a mosque should be allowed near the former World Trade Center site, we can be reminded of another, long ago question of limiting worship by members of a particular faith. The analogy might prove informative. It is said that those who ignore the lessons of history are bound to repeat past mistakes.
Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant detested Quakers. In response to actions he took against them, 31 residents signed what is known as the Flushing Remonstrance. |
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