After finally passing through the New York State Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on Dec. 28, vetoed a bill that would have imposed a 3 percent hotel occupancy tax on motel patrons in Mamaroneck. Cuomo also vetoed requests for a hotel occupancy tax, also known as a “bed tax,” from other […]
Month: January 2016
Village board to draft local pet store law
The village of Mamaroneck has begun drafting a local law to regulate pet stores, loosely based on the regulatory laws of Suffolk County. This recent push for legislation surfaced in August when residents began protesting a village pet store, Best Breeds Puppies and Kittens on Mamaroneck Avenue. Residents claimed that […]
New year, new hope
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to turn the page on 2015—at least sportswise. From a fandom perspective, this hasn’t been a great year for me. The Giants, who were thankfully put out of their misery this past weekend, were positively atrocious, kept afloat for weeks only by […]
Man’s belief in dog
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]o people save dogs or is it the other way around? That’s the question posed by the Broadway comedy “Sylvia,” starring Matthew Broderick as a disengaged middle-aged New Yorker who falls in love with a very human dog—so human that she’s played by the talking, sniffing, adorable Annaleigh Ashford. But […]
Saving the next generation
More than a decade ago, I came into contact with the plight of a young HIV-positive Zimbabwean couple who tried desperately to conceive their first child. Tragically, they lost their HIV-positive firstborn who died shortly after birth. But it was more than 30 years ago when I decided to enter […]