Jon Elsen is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher of The Rye Record. He previously was an editor at The New York Times and New York Post, and a strategic communications advisor.
The proposals being spread around town in encrypted emails by the so-called Rye Community Planning Collaborative would have a big impact on the future of Rye, Elsen writes.
The Rye Record Foundation for Community News will help us continue to deliver (quite literally to your mailbox) a free newspaper that makes Rye a better place for all of us to live.
Jon Elsen, editor-in-chief and co-publisher of The Rye Record, writes that after Record staff spent six hours interviewing all three mayoral candidates, it is abundantly clear that Nathan is by far the best choice for Rye.
Leaders of the donor group, Let the Kids Play, made clear in emails that they wanted to assert influence over the city’s Republican party – and the two Republican City Council members -- to win support for artificial turf.
The council, before the most recent election, was run without proper consideration of public opinion or the opinions of all council members. On top of all that, the council was downright uncivil.
