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Mt. Vernon lunacy and more: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 9, 2026

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Just when you think you have lived long enough to have seen and heard it all, you read that a Mount Vernon deputy police commissioner drove a getaway car for her son’s gang shooting — with the help from her ex-con husband, no less (“Police brass ‘crime’ family,” Aug. 5).

To say it’s getting crazier and crazier out there is the understatement of the year. Has everyone in Mount Vernon gone totally out of their minds?

Mamdani can’t handle getting booed — but it may be about to get a lot worse

$570k pension for NYC lifeguard is just the tip of an iceberg of corruption

Michigan Senate race displays the radical ‘shift’ the Democratic Party has taken

Here we are again: warning stickers on cars redux (“ ‘Sticking’ it to cars,” Aug. 5).

Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the City Council rightly halted the practice as unnecessary public shaming and property vandalism. Now, Mayor Mamdani has let it resume.

This practice needs to be stopped again. Let’s hope that other failed practices don’t resume under this mayor.

The announcement that John Galliano will be the theme of the 2027 Met Gala is appalling,........

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