Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
September 13, 2015
It’s the morning of 9/11, 14 years removed from the one we all remember. I have just returned from a walk up the road, where I stopped to look across ...
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Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
March 13, 2015
Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” That quote, while warning against any attempt to make exact comparisons betw...
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
January 10, 2015
T he deadly attack by Islamist gunmen on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has spawned the hashtag response #JeSuisCharlie [“I Am Charlie”] ...
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
May 1, 2014
At a meeting of the Hume Town Board (in Allegany County) on March 12, a public hearing was opened to discuss the proposed acquisition by eminent domai...
Editorial
January 9, 2014
A Kansas City Star editorial included on this paper’s Commentary page (“Sad Song of Benghazi,” Jan. 4, 2014) summarizes the findings of a recent New Y...
Editorial
December 19, 2013
The Basic STAR (School Tax Relief) Program is a partial exemption currently afforded to millions of New York state property owners. Reportedly, in ord...
Editorial
July 8, 2013
“In the shadow of the Fourth of July and the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, the winds of freedom are blowing…” is how Reg Henry, a col...
Editorial
June 10, 2013
Responding the other day to the revelation that the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans, President Obama referenced a speech he’d gi...
Editorial
January 28, 2013
During her recent Congressional testimony, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked why the attack in Benghazi that killed our Ambassador...
