Answering the Headlines: New York Times: “New York Prosecutors Sometimes Behave Badly. Now They May Be Held to Account” Yes, there are some prosecutors who may be over the line here and there but there are many politicians who are scared out of their wits by District Attorneys. […]
Publisher’s Corner
Publisher’s Corner: Sin is in!
Sin is back in fashion. In New York, marijuana is back on the table. In my town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, you’d need a lot of Roundup to kill all of the weed that four or five stores will be selling. In New York, it’s just a matter of time […]
Publisher’s Corner: Democrats in Congress and State Senate are taking big risks
The Democrats in both the House of Representatives and the State Senate are risking it all and to some extent, they are being aided and abetted by the news media who know a story when they see one. We all know that any story that involves a fight or a […]
Publisher’s Corner: It’s absurd we have to lobby for the right to die
I have a close relative who recently passed away after a battle with stomach cancer. My wife and I spent a lot of time with him before he died. The poor guy was in misery. He had come to grips with the fact that his life was at an end. […]
Publisher’s Corner: The Gillibrand enigma
The first New Hampshire polling is in and Bernie Sanders is the big winner. We had a clue about that when he reported hauling in $6,000,000 in donations within 24 hours of announcing. Friends, in politics that is a great deal of money. Maybe he could have beaten Donald Trump […]
Publisher’s Corner: There are no winners in the Amazon debacle
You do not want to get on the dark side of Andrew Cuomo. When he gets angry, watch out, and he is angry now. Something that really shouldn’t have happened did happen. The newly empowered Democrats in the State Senate miscalculated and as a result, Amazon pulled out of the […]
Publisher’s Corner: Excelsior Scholarship is a good start, but hardly a “free” program
I have always believed that if we are committed to fairness and equality of opportunity for everyone, college should be free. While we are willing to guarantee free access to education via the public schools through high school, many of our private (independent) colleges are charging $60,000 and even more […]
Publisher’s Corner: Thank Trump for NY’s new progressive policies
If Donald Trump wasn’t perceived as such a monster by New Yorkers and if that hadn’t convinced Governor Andrew Cuomo, for whatever his reasons, to unload on Trump and to go after the Republicans (who many suspect he helped to maintain control over the State Senate for years), we might […]