HYPER LOCAL NEWS: The Raw Pound Ridge News Feed

Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Pound Ridge, NY, that is a;lso continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network

http://roundupnewswires.com/city/pound-ridge-ny/

What's the penalty for a contraband phone? Prison?

Disgraced Pharmaceutical Executive Runs His Company with a Prison Wallet Phone

From a top bunk in a 12-person prison cell in Fort Dix, N.J., Martin Shkreli is at work on a big second act. Wielding little more than a contraband smartphone, the disgraced pharmaceutical executive remains the shadow power at Phoenixus AG, the drug company that became a national lightning rod for jacking up the prices of rare drugs under its former name,

Turing Pharmaceuticals AG. Mr. Shkreli still helps call the shots. A few weeks ago he rang up his handpicked chief executive during a safari vacation -- to fire him, according to a person familiar with the exchange.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/martin-shkreli-steers-his-company-from-prisonwith-contraband-cellphone-11551973574

HYPER LOCAL NEWS: The Raw Irvington News Feed

Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Irvington, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/irvington-ny/

COUNTER PUNCH: Another War for Oil, Thank Ted Cruz

Very important identical bills were introduced in the U.S. Senate and House in late February, but you've likely not heard of them -- even though they could literally blow up the Middle East and take the world much closer to World War III. 

Oil has been discovered on the Golan Heights, once part of Syria but occupied by Israel since the 6 day war in 1967. New Jersey-based energy company Genie Energy Ltd. was granted drilling rights in the Golan by Israel. On February 26, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced a bill asserting U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in Syria. 

Oil has been discovered on the Golan Heights, once part of Syria but occupied by Israel since the 6 day war in 1967
 

Even without oil, the Irsaelis are never giving up the Golan Heights. Artillery parked on it can hit Tel Aviv 

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/06/another-war-for-oil-on-the-agenda-thank-ted-cruz/

The Raw Somers News Feed

Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Somers, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/somers-ny/

YOUR FIRED: 400 Jobs Gone In Yonkers

LOL... Mayor Mike Spano's $80,000 A Month CBS News Wife Gets Channel 2 To Break And Spin Nearly Two Week Old Bad Yonkers Development News Story.....

NEWS LEADER: But Brian Harrod Gave The Well Informed "Yonkers Newswires" Readers A Breaking Advance Notice, Then A Dozen Days Later The Mainstream Media Starts To Cover The Story

WCBS - TV: Dispute Over Tax Breaks To Send Popular #Yonkers Business — And 400 Jobs — To Georgia

THE SPIN: Mayor Mike Spano Says It's Unfair For Taxpayers To Take On Burden Created By Continued Tax Breaks For POP Displays

YONKERS (CBSNewYork): Several hundred workers were scrambling Thursday, after learning their jobs are moving from Westchester County to Georgia.

Their employer asked for help keeping the jobs in Yonkers, but the mayor said he could not justify continued tax breaks

The news from POP Displays gave workers plenty to chew over, as they took their 30-minute lunch breaks at nearby restaurants.

“Everybody’s shocked. We’re all shocked. I’ve been there almost 10 years,” one woman said.

“I’m in shock. Been there almost a year. The 19th will be a year at POP. It hurts that they’re leaving,” a man added......

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/program/1401/4042386-yonkers-set-to-lose-hundreds-of-jobs/ 

MIKE YOUR FIRED: Yonkers Senator Shelley Mayer Is Proposing Legislation That Would Bounce Mayor Mike Spano Off Of The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency

MAJOR LEGISLATION: Yonkers Senator Shelley Mayer Plans To Drop A Bomb On Mayor Mike Spano, As She And Other Senators Call For A Local IDA Tax Break Reform Package

Members of Senator Shelley Mayer’s staff say the senator and other colleges will will introduce 11 bills that target at industrial development agencies

The Senators plan to introduce the package of bills that would rein in powers of local industrial development agencies, like the Yonkers IDA, that include changing how tax breaks are given out and structured. 

The Bills would ban IDA Chairman Mayor Mike Spano from giving incentives to projects that are already under construction or in which the developer is not identified. 

Senator Shelley Mayer’s co-sponsored legislation would also require school districts to be involved in payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements, and close a loophole that allows an IDA to lure a project from another local IDA. 

Multiple Yonkers IDA projects would be subject to the limitations outlined in the legislative proposals. 

Senator Shelley Mayer’s is also proposing that tax money be recouped, in what is called a claw back, if a Yonkers IDA project’s job creation numbers aren’t met. 

The senator’s legislation also calls for a member from organized labor to serve on IDA boards. 

And get this, Senator Shelley Mayer is also proposing that elected officials, like Mayor Mike Spano, not be allowed to serve on IDA boards.

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/yonkers-ny/index.php/2019/03/06/mike-your-fired-yonkers-senator-shelley-mayer-is-proposing-legislation-that-would-bounce-mayor-mike-spano-off-of-the-yonkers-ida/

REAL ESTATE: Some #Yonkers developers say proposed prevailing wage law is a business killer, but similar bills have passed the Assembly over the last few years, but had always failed to clear the Senate.

BLUE WAVE: However, now that Yonkers' Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is in control of the majority in the Senate, observers say the legislation has a good chance of getting enacted this session.

YONKERS: Some Yonkers developers and business leaders are apoplectic over proposed state legislation that would require them to pay union wages on projects that receive any public funds, which they say will curtail growth

The proposed legislation would redefine public projects to include private projects that receive government incentives or any publicly funded financial assistance.

It would also mandate that those projects pay prevailing wages according to a schedule set by the state’s Department of Labor and labor union representatives.

Yonkers union officials who have lobbied hard for the measure, the bill, opponents say, would add higher labor costs to new real estate developments.

There is a carve out in the bill that exempts multifamily projects where at least 75 percent of the units are affordable to people earning 60 percent or less than the area median income.

Though state law already requires that workers on public projects be paid prevailing wages, the proposed law would expand that mandate to public/private partnerships and private developments or businesses that get tax breaks or economic incentives from industrial development agencies for expansions and job creation.

Opponents of the bill are hoping it will be watered down or heavily amended rather than passed as written.

Just a year after the #YonkersIDA adopted a rule forcing developers that get incentives to sign project labor agreements with union contractors, the city cancelled it because its IDA went the entire year without a deal.

Yonkers' Mayor Mike Spano called the pilot program “a dismal failure.” in the press 

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/yonkers-ny/index.php/2019/03/06/real-estate-some-yonkers-developers-say-proposed-prevailing-wage-law-is-a-business-killer-but-similar-bills-have-passed-the-assembly-over-the-last-few-years-but-had-always-failed-to-clear-the-senat/ 

What's The Rush? Why Only 24 Hours Notice?

SHADY DEAL: Yonkers City Council Members Are Holding An #Emergency "Special Meeting" Tomorrow With Just 24 Hours Notice To Pass A Resolution Asking New York State To Convert The Existing #Yonkers Racino Video Lottery Terminals To Full Casino Gaming For #MGM, Without Getting Rid Of The Horrific Rooney Family's Flat Rate "Payment In Lieu Of Taxes" (#PILOT) That Has Children Holding Classes In Hallways And Seniors On The Verge of Losing Their Homes In The City Of Hills.

Why should MGM get anything, if Yonkers children are going to hold classes in hallways and seniors on a fixed income don't get tax relief?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/YonkersNewswire/permalink/2311752909082274/ 

Isn't it a bit early for tornadoes?

Tornadoes Kill at Least 23 in Lee County, Alabama

At least 23 people have been killed as tornadoes struck Lee County in eastern Alabama, authorities say.

County Sheriff Jay Jones said there had been "catastrophic" damage and there were fears more bodies would be found. Dozens are thought to have been hurt. 

Rescue efforts have been halted until dawn due to the danger of searching in the dark.

The most devastating tornadoes struck the area around Beauregard, carving a path at least half a mile wide.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47436809

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: City Of Yonkers Accepting 2019 Nominations For Mayor Mike Spano's Annual "Women Of Distinction" Award

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/yonkers-ny/index.php/2019/03/04/for-immediate-release-city-of-yonkers-accepting-2019-nominations-for-mayor-mike-spanos-annual-women-of-distinction-award/

HYPER LOCAL NEWS: The Raw Mount Vernon News Feed

Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper-local news for Mount Vernon, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network

http://roundupnewswires.com/city/mount-vernon-ny/

LOL.... Who could have known that Fox would be in cahoots with a guy who by sheer coincidence sings their praises daily....

NEW YORKER: Fox News Killed Stormy Daniels Story to Help Trump

Jane Mayer, New Yorker: Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network closely, including some Fox alumni, say that it has evolved into something that hasn't existed before in the United States.

That fall [of 2016], a FoxNews.com reporter had a story that put the network's journalistic integrity to the test. Diana Falzone, who often covered the entertainment industry, had obtained proof that Trump had engaged in a sexual relationship in 2006 with a pornographic film actress calling herself Stormy Daniels.

Falzone had also amassed e-mails between Daniels's attorney and Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, detailing a proposed cash settlement, accompanied by a nondisclosure agreement. Falzone had even seen the contract.

But Falzone's story didn't run -- it kept being passed off from one editor to the next.

After getting one noncommittal answer after another from her editors,

Falzone at last heard from [Ken] LaCorte, who was then the head of Fox News.

Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, "Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go."

Oh mmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.... the ol fair and balanced strikes again!!!!

LOL... Anyone that thinks F*x Noise is a real news station probably needs help putting their pants on

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house?currentPage=all

Raw New Rochelle News Feed

"New Rochelle Newswire" Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper-local news for New Rochelle, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network 

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/new-rochelle-ny/ 

Senate Poised to Block Trump's Emergency Order to Build Wall

The Senate appears poised to vote to reject Trump's emergency declaration allowing millions of dollars to be redirected from other areas to build a wall on the Mexico-U.S. border.

This will certainly undermine Trump's claim that the majority of Americans support him declaring a national emergency so that he can build his 'ego' wall.

Sen Rand Paul's reason for voting in favor of the bill, "I can't vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress."

https://www.axios.com/rand-paul-supports-resolution-block-trumps-emergency-declaration-3ddfdfbf-e11c-4362-b897-3191c8d3e148.html

The Raw White Plains News Feed

Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper-local news for White Plains, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network

White Plains is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.

It is the county seat and commercial hub of Westchester, an affluent suburban county just north of New York City that is home to almost one million people.

Population: 59,047 (2017)

Mayor: Thomas Roach

Area code: 914

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/white-plains-ny/

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docks with Space Station

America's new astronaut capsule has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its demonstration mission.

The Dragon vehicle, launched by California's SpaceX company on Saturday, made the attachment autonomously. It is the latest in a series of tests the capsule must pass in order to get approval from NASA to transport people.

A great accomplishment! 

Most importantly, one that removes our need for Russians by July if everything goes according to plans 

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47430432

The Raw Mohegan Lake News Feed

Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Mohegan Lake, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network

Mohegan Lake, or, rarely, Lake Mohegan, is a census-designated place located in the Town of Cortlandt and partially in the Town of Yorktown, both in Westchester County, New York

Population: 6,010 (2010)

Area code: 914

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/mohegan-lake-ny/

Unknown Architects Chosen for Sandy Hook Memorial Design

The Sandy Hook memorial contract could have been awarded to architects with a national reputation, or to architects who have done good work here before, such as the firm that designed the new Sandy Hook School.

Instead, Newtown chose two unknowns in the architectural world named Ben Waldo and Dan Affleck, whose memorial design of a walk through nature captivated the town. 

https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Sandy-Hook-memorial-carries-personal-13652559.php

YONKERS FILM: The Kentucky Fried Movie At The Alamo Drafthouse On March 5th

WATCH THE TRAILER: A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

With a Tomatometer Score of 80 percent and an Audience Score of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1977 release comes with positive recommendations....

https://roundupnewswires.com/city/yonkers-ny/index.php/2019/03/03/yonkers-film-the-kentucky-fried-movie-at-the-alamo-drafthouse-on-march-5th/