When a resident inquired of my office about the possibility of keeping honeybees in her backyard, I sarcastically bellowed at the request, “Obviously, a study should be done.” Those who know me recognize this is my way of stating my distaste for many of the politicians who surround us. If every question that was posed to the Village Board required a study and then a definitive answer from that study, the board would make few or no decisions.

He rides the New Haven line into the city and back to Rye each workday and he’s just one of many sardine-canned commuters who’d call himself disgruntled. It’s no shock that he has had enough of the routine he shares with countless other rail commuters.