Do we need a regional control board? Yes — and for good reason. The level of greed, deceit, and outright tomfoolery that took place during the COVID lockdown still turns my stomach. While everyday people were trying to survive, some of our so‑called representatives seemed more focused on ...

By now, people should understand the severe consequences of Net-Zero energy policies. By now, people should know that Net-Zero policies have destroyed the economies of England and Germany, while other countries are smartly turning away from Net-Zero policies. By now, people should ...

GENESEO — Let’s pick up where we left on Labor Day weekend 2025. Rev. Jason McGuire, a former Livingston County Conservative party chair, and the current executive director of New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action, is bright, personable, cheerful, dedicated, and ...

When I hop to my computer each morning, I promise myself I won’t fritter away my time. Fuggedaboudit. I get some of my best ideas while frittering. On Monday, I didn’t have frittering time to spare. I was cleaning up some of my messier computer files when I stumbled across an article I ...

I recently read “The Mohawk” by Codman Hislop,  who taught American Civilization at Union College in Schenectady, New York. The book originally published in 1948 is the story of the Mohawk Valley and its river from prehistoric times up to the post-World War II period with a large ...

Recently, on a rare sunny morning, me friends and I were breaking bread at the Ann Street Deli in Little Falls, where one finds the best pancakes this side of heaven, when the subject of St. Patrick’s Day arose. What began as an innocent discussion of the annual parade in Utica devolved ...