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Shelton’s Believe It or Not: He Now Wants the Board to “Expand” His “Powers”
In The Daily’s first installment of Shelton’s Believe It or Not, we introduce you to a remarkable move set for approval by his weak-as-diner-coffee board. It’s on the agenda for their October 2022 session. Dear Leader seeks “Powers to Issue…
Who earns more? New York Governor Kathy Hochul or RIOC President/CEO Shelton J. Haynes?
As you might’ve guessed, “Who earns more?” is a trick question because, if the obvious were the answer, nobody would ask. Haynes, presiding over 11,700 New Yorkers on one island, beats out Hochul in the race for take home pay….
Sprucing up the New York State Shelton J. Haynes Parking Area
RIOC upped the honors for its putative leader. Sprucing up the New York State Shelton J. Haynes Parking area, a fresh, brightly colored array of flowers fills a planter next to his huge gas guzzler. It should not be left…
New Lawsuit Targets State Racism, Derelict RIOC Board In Attack on Susan Rosenthal
An attack on Susan Rosenthal, last June, enabled by New York State racism, and fostered by a derelict board… Those are the raw accusations in new lawsuit filed by the former RIOC president/CEO. Coupled with a suit filed last year…
RIOC’s Special “Gift” for Roosevelt Island via the New York State Shelton J. Haynes Parking Area
RIOC’s special gift for Roosevelt Island, amateurish and klutzy, comes wrapped in duct tape. And its message is indecipherable. But the one thing it does is keep the patroon’s special parking privileges safe from violation by anyone who lives here.
What’s worse than RIOC seizing space in historic Blackwell House? Answer: Demanding free parking to go with it.
RIOC seizing space in Blackwell House, giving president/CEO Shelton Haynes a new office, was classic bad optics. But it took just a single week to top it as the state gobbled up sparse street parking, reserving them for his “guests…”
Is the internal RIOC attack team now turning on CEO Shelton Haynes?
A leading figure in the internal RIOC attack team accused of leading the charge against RIOC’s fired CEO Susan Rosenthal resurfaced. A March Twitter post shows her taking a whack at Governor Cuomo as well as RIOC’s “unethical leaders.”
Unfit for the job? RIOC’s new leader attacks local critics
Is RIOC’s new leader, Shelton Haynes, unfit for the job? He doesn’t think so. “I would expect more respect and appreciation for all of the work we do,” he said. That was the last line in an angry public email,…
Why Fire Susan Rosenthal? It’s Not What You Think, She Argues, In Recent Filing
Why fire Susan Rosenthal? Papers filed since her June dismissal expose a case against her that’s as weak as it is indefensible. If a Swiss cheese had as many holes, you’d demand your money back for the sandwich. And RIOC’s…
Cuomo Appoints Haynes as RIOC Head in a Blow to Roosevelt Island’s Democracy Movement
In what may be a fatal blow to Roosevelt Island’s fading democracy movement, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Shelton Haynes as President and Chief Executive at RIOC. Its board of directors, theoretically responsible for executive hirings, genuflected north toward Albany.
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor