Reporting and Commentary by Robert Cox
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 16, 2026) — This is Part I in a multi-part series. Shining the Light "If you get a full copy, your recourse, in my opinion, involves shining the light and pointing out where there might not have been full compliance." — Robert J. Freeman,
CityManager@newrochelleny.gov City Manager Wilfredo Melendez Dear City Manager Melendez, I want the court to weigh in on a matter that has become recurring — almost monthly — during your tenure: the City of New Rochelle’s routine violations of the Open Meetings Law. Many of these violations
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 11, 2026) — Google has notified Talk of the Sound today that one or more pages associated with the publication have been removed from certain Google search results in Europe following a request made under European data protection law. The notice did not identify the requester. It
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 12, 2026) — Today I filed a request under the New York Freedom of Information Law seeking records concerning how the City of New Rochelle came to authorize the use of taxpayer funds in connection with the defamation lawsuit brought against me by Corporation Counsel Dawn
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 2, 2026) — This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the month ending August 2, 2026 A Note from the Publisher Over the past few weeks I took sone time off
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 15, 2026) — New Rochelle has improperly denied my Freedom of Information Law request seeking a draft financial statement that the City's own outside auditor consulted, paged through, and relied upon to answer a direct question from a member of City Council at a meeting
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 15, 2026) — I do not understand why I am not getting a response. On June 27 I emailed the district with straightforward questions about the New Rochelle High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. Four people had just been inducted after a five-year hiatus. One
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 4, 2026) — My female family members were proud members of the DAR — Daughters of the American Revolution. They put considerable effort into documenting the family genealogy. When my grandfather Robert Nelson Cox died, his wife — my grandmother Dorothy Cox — bequeathed a trove of
This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the week ending: 28 June, 2026 A Note from the Publisher The 2nd Court of Appeals handed down a highly significant opinion in a case that no
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 24, 2026) — Whether intentionally or through incompetence, the New Rochelle Citizens Complaint Review Board is an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption designed for a single outcome — failure. The CCRB will never function because it is constrained in a way that makes it impossible for it
This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the week ending June 21, 2026. A Note from the Publisher I spent most of the past week with my wife in Belgium, then Friday night we
This briefing draws from reporting at Talk of the Sound, analysis and commentary published in Words in Edgewise, and selected regional coverage for the week ending June 14, 2026 A Note from the Publisher A New Rochelle developer whose projects pre-date the 2015 DOZ, wrote an op-ed for
The exemptions built into the CCRB ordinance guarantee the board is excluded from every serious police misconduct case during the period when the community most needs answers — and state law ensures that will be true for every future officer-involved death as well NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 14, 2026)
by Anthony Hammel NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 12, 2026) — Governor Kathy Hochul's "Let Them Build" agenda makes for a compelling headline. Who wouldn't support cutting red tape, building more housing, and lowering costs? At first glance, the proposal suggests that bureaucracy is the