WPCNR POLL. May 8, 2006: I have a dream. That I'm standing in a press room at city hall some day. And some time the City of White Plains will hold a news conference where the Mayor and his staff will be up there behind them and a team of city reporters, Keith, Jim, me, Alex, Jean, Pat, Don, Tony of WCBS-TV, Georgina of News-12, Jim of WABC-TV shout out questions from the floor and the Mayor and his commissioners are there to answer them, and financial information is put out as it becomes available in news releases equally to all media.

I also have a dream that when a simple yes/no question is phoned into a city hall "press spokesperson" that they someday might return that call.

But, until that day comes, I can only dream

Because, as we know in White Plains that will never happen. The Mayor never asks for questions from the floor at any of his photo-ops, never seems to know the answer to a question, and Commissioners, forgettaboutit -- they have a gag order. You cannot even get a budget figure from the budget department, and you have buy the city budget. Anyway, there are a number of questions I have lately that only the city can answer, and maybe WPCNR readers can help me out and tell me which questions you'd like me to work on. You be the reporter and pick the questions that are on your mind in the new poll at the right. (Of course if you have some questions of your own...send them in and we will forward them to Mayor Delfino's Tony Snows.)