By Rolland Kidder We tend to focus a lot of our attention on the big things of life — like weddings, funerals, college graduations and holiday celebrations. Yet, I think, most of what happens (or doesn’t happen) to us comes under the appellation of being “mundane,” the little ...

By FRED LARSON By Feb. 23, the Western World, including the United States was recovering rather well from the historic COVID Pandemic. Then on Feb. 24, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. World oil prices jumped and the price of many grains exploded (Ukraine is one of the world’s ...

Democracy or despotism. Voting or violence. With every recent election the choices become more serious. It is coming down to these. After years of being told that democrats are anti-capitalism socialists, that they want to take away everyone’s guns; which are both wild exaggerations; the lies ...

Timothy Frudd’s excellent article recently outlined the idea of bringing a consultant for the Humane Society of the United States to the city to solve our urban deer problem. I do not believe Sandy Baker, aka “Deer Doctor,” has any solution to the problem. First, I’ve attempted to ...

Editor, OBSERVER: We question the OBSERVER’s reluctance to support Proposition 1: The Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022, which will be on the ballot in New York this election. In its Oct. 25 view, “Environmental act is a tough sell,” the editors affirm ...

Suppose that you wanted government to, shall we say, really mess things up. What would you suggest? ı ı ı First you might suggest inflation. No one born in the United States since 1960 has any adult memory of significant inflation sustained for several years. So it’s particularly ...