2017 | Sustainable Port Chester Alliance

Letter: Make it fair, make it clear, put it in writing!

Author: adminOn: Dec 14Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

Thursday, December 14, 2017 In recent months, many citizens of Port Chester have told the Board of Trustees that we need an inclusive and transparent process for choosing the system by which we will elect Trustees in the 2019 elections and beyond. So...

Letter: Choosing a New Voting System Should be a Fair and Inclusive Process

Author: adminOn: Nov 02Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

November 1, 2017 Last Tuesday, I attended a forum on voting rights and the future of Port Chester elections hosted by the Sustainable Port Chester Alliance in conjunction with the Hudson Valley Justice Center (HVJC). I was one of about 30 people who heard...

Letter: Alliance Calls for Transparent, Inclusive Process for Choosing Voting System

Author: adminOn: Oct 27Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

September 20, 2017 Members and friends of the Sustainable Port Chester Alliance turned out for Monday’s Port Chester Board of Trustees meeting to demand that the process for selecting a new voting method for Village elections be inclusive and transparent....

Letter: Port Chester Should Consider Equity Along with Master Developer

Author: adminOn: Aug 23Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

As published in The Journal News LOHUD on August 23, 2017 (Photo: Starwood Capital Group) Re: “Port Chester looks to hire master developer,” Aug. 4, 2017 Port Chester’s plans to revitalize some 120 acres downtown by partnering with a master developer...

Letter: Don’t Get it Twisted

Author: adminOn: Jul 18Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

As published in Westmore News on July 12, 2017 In support of Joan Grangenois-Thomas’ letter from May 24, we must work in coalition to ensure the town receives what it needs and what it deserves. The fact that there are dissenting opinions about candidates...

Letter: Longtime Resident in Agreement on Need for Housing and Jobs

Author: adminOn: Jul 18Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

As published in Westmore News on June 28, 2017 A few weeks ago, Joan Grangenois-Thomas’s analysis of the local (Port Chester) political situation was on point. All politics are local. The noise at the state and national level should not and must not...

Letter: As goes DC, so goes PC?

Author: adminOn: May 26Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

As published in Westmore News on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Port Chester’s two elections this year have followed patterns eerily similar to those of November 2016. As with the national elections, conservative candidates in Port Chester have ridden to...

Letter: Affordable Housing Needed to Keep Millennials in P.C.

Author: adminOn: Mar 16Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

Wednesday, March 01, 2017 I have heard all the talk about getting “millennials” to move into the United Hospital redevelopment. I know Starwood even brought down some millennials from Connecticut to a couple of hearings to give the Board of Trustees...

Letter: Sustainable P.C. Alliance Isn’t Going Away

Author: adminOn: Mar 16Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

Thursday, March 16, 2017 Where the Alliance is buoyed by the inclusion of 36 apartments in the Starwood United Hospital project, we think it’s a stretch to claim them as “affordable workforce” housing. Although the Village staff and consultants...

Letter: Don’t Support Us Just Halfway: Immigrant Justice Includes Housing Justice!

Author: adminOn: Jan 27Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

Thursday, January 26, 2017 As both a Mexican immigrant and a community organizer with the Sustainable Port Chester Alliance, I write to say that racial and immigrant justice includes housing justice. If the United Hospital project does not include real...