In this corner, Donald J. Trump, aka “The Orange Bully.” And in that corner, Andrew “Street Fighter” Cuomo. Look, it really isn’t hard to figure out what’s going on. Consider the concept of good vs. evil. Let’s face it — Trump is as close to pure evil as this country […]
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Publisher’s Corner: Without better campaign finance laws, we are in danger
Talk about prescience. On my recent birthday, I got lucky. For the hundredth time, I got to see Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, one of the greatest movies of all time. Frank Capra, the phenomenal director, gets the credit for most of it. In this era of […]
Publisher’s Corner: Pandemic raises questions of jurisdiction in state and national politics
As I remember, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon used to talk about his “jurisdiction.” Who would have thunk that the concept of jurisdiction would make a major comeback in the days of the COVID-19 pandemic and yet another scourge known as Donald Trump. We have a president who is insisting […]
Publisher’s Corner: Has the pandemic changed Governor Cuomo?
Andrew Cuomo has been amazing for many reasons. I truly appreciate the respect he has for WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. I have always believed in the Freudian concept that character is established at a very young age but I think that theory has been challenged by Andrew’s personal development. The three-term […]
Publisher’s Corner: It’s time for America to divest itself from this racist president
A long time ago, I was hired to be an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The then-president of the college, Don Riddle, gave me as a sort of present to the then-police commissioner, Patrick V. Murphy, who had as one of his missions the slimming […]
Publisher’s Corner: Why I call the governor “sir”
Let’s face it — there is no current political commodity hotter than Andrew Cuomo. One Siena poll had him at a 77 percent approval rating in New York. Compare that with Donald Trump, in the relative basement. Cuomo has cleverly positioned himself as a moderate Democrat, unlike the more flamboyant […]
Publisher’s Corner: The only way to get rid of Trump is at the ballot box
I have been getting a lot of letters positing that Donald Trump is a very bad man so someone, somehow, has to do something about that. Here are a few of them: Dear Doctor: Trump is so dangerous that the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution should be invoked. […]
Publisher’s Corner: Virus response exacerbating upstate-downstate divide
There’s New York City and there’s upstate New York. From what I can figure, Yonkers is where upstate starts. This is just another example of what we can call “we-they” syndrome. Human beings have always been territorial. That’s why people hire professionals to make sure that no one encroaches on […]