Local Columnists

As an older citizen observing the effects of the progressive movement, here are some things that differ greatly from my old-fashioned times. Tattoos a...

Have you had a chance to experience and appreciate the beauty of our state recently? It’s so easy to take our surroundings for granted. Most of us can...

Several weeks ago, I highlighted that a long-awaited report on New York state’s COVID-19 pandemic response, first commissioned by Gov. Kathy Hochul mo...

There’s an ad on TV that shows a guy making some crazy dance moves. A voiceover reminds viewers that maybe their own reaction to music has been passed...

Earlier this summer, I was joined by my wife Karen, stepdaughter Ivy and her fiancé, Brian Bagley of Lakewood, Colorado, and one of my closest friends...

The Olympics, not the games underway in Paris right now, those aren’t what’s making me pause to write this column — although gymnast Simone Biles is p...

I am against the logging project in Zoar Valley planned by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation based on a Connecticut Audubon plan...

I think I have found evidence I was always something of a news junkie. It points to times long before I officially became a journalist and began worki...

Not that we needed another poll to tell us that New York state is getting increasingly more unaffordable, but recent statewide polling from the Siena ...

It’s official. I have reached the age of mysterious injuries. I’ve slept wrong, stepped wrong and reached my arm wrong. I’ve found scratches, cuts, bu...

The Alle-Catt Wind project has come a long way since starting development more than eight years ago. We’ve recently started construction on our Operat...

I’ve always had a deep love for libraries. I remember the excitement every time our family walked into a library, thrilled by all the books. When I wa...

The nation’s media, consumed with President Joe Biden’s troubled debate performance, has given little attention to the July 1 decision by the U.S. Sup...

Summer is a time to work in the garden, visit the dog park or hit the bike path. It is also a time to be aware of tick-borne illnesses including Lyme ...

It’s been a while since I’ve written about an adventure from “the wilds of Portville.” A couple years ago, a few columns told of experiences with anim...

You’ve heard it and read it time and again over the past several years since the enactment of New York’s far-reaching climate agenda known as the “Cli...

After President Joe Biden’s abysmal performance in the first debate, Democrats and progressives are sweating bullets. They have been in denial for fou...

Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign pits Americans who favor a citizen-based, democratic form of government against those who seek to centralize...