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Oberacker, Salka Lead Republican Romp

Oberacker, Salka Lead Republican Romp By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com Republicans romped across Otsego County on Election Day 2020, leading with the top of the ticket, President Donald Trump. “We’re not even purple,” said a jubilant GOP County Chairman Vince Casale, as Peter Oberacker won the 51st Senate District and Assemblyman John Salka turned back Oneonta Democrat Dan Buttermann by a large margin in the 121st District. “Otsego County is red.” Casale said the Republican victory margins…

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Political Races Aplenty In 2020

Political Races Aplenty In 2020 Lawyer Challenges Delgado; Jim Powers In Assembly Run By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Having filled a vacancy on the Millbrook Village Board in 2017, Republican Kyle Van De Water, a Poughkeepsie lawyer, ran for a full term in 2018. As he knocked on doors and handed out literature, he discovered volunteers for Democratic Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado had gotten there before him. And Delgado’s army of volunteers also handed out literature for the…

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Jim Powers Runs For 122nd Assembly Seat

Jim Powers Runs For 122nd Assembly Seat Former Otsego County Board Chairman Seeks To Succeed Retiring Cliff Crouch By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SOUTH NEW BERLIN – Republican Jim Powers, former Otsego County Board of Representatives chairman, announced this morning he’s running for state Assembly in the 122nd District to succeed Cllifford W. Crouch, Bainbridge, who is retiring.  Both are  career farmers. “I enjoy public service and being able to help people with their problems,” and to do…

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ZAGATA: Democrats Keep Placing Blame On The Other Guy

VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Democrats Keep Placing Blame On The Other Guy By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you’ve been following the governor’s response to the inability of folks on Long Island or Westchester County to acquire natural gas from Con Ed or National Grid to heat their homes, you must be flabbergasted by the newest twist of events. The governor is now blaming the Public Service Commission and the DEC, two agencies he controls, for the energy…

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This Week — Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2019

  THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Vote Expected Nov. 6 On County Manager Trustees Remove Dorms From New Zoning Schenevus, Worcester Schools Revisit Merger Oneonta Christian Academy Seeks Otego Site SUNY Team Bus, Moose Collide In Adirondacks 6-Month Moratorium Planned On Dunkin’ Site Fire-Extinguisher Drive Honors Fallen Fireman EDITORIAL Early Voting Offers Opportunities, Dangers COLUMNS LEAGUE: 5¢ Deposit Creates Right Incentives ZAGATA: Democrats Blame The Other…

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NORTHRUP: Broadband, Renewables, Codes, Pot – Why Not?

LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Broadband, Renewables, Codes, Pot – Why Not? To the Editor: I was reading your newspaper’s “expose” of the Democrats’ top secret plan to take over the county as if it were satire, until I realized you were serious, that changing party leadership was some kind of threat to the county’s political somnambulance. Of course it’s time for a change! Bring it on. Everything outlined in the McEvoy Memo would be good for the economic health and wellbeing for all…

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Buttermann To Run For Assembly Seat, Democrats Affirm

OTSEGO CANDIDATE TO FACE SALKA Buttermann To Run For Assembly Seat, Democrats Affirm By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A Hamilton farmer, Corey Mosher, has announced a challenge to freshman Assemblyman John Salka, R-Brookfield, in the 121st District next year, but local Democrats say they expect Otsego County will have its own candidate for the party’s nomination, Dan Buttermann of Oneonta. In 2017, Buttermann lost narrowly – 1,158 to 1,203 – to then-Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, who…

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Democrats Signal Plans To Republicans

EDITORIAL Democrats Signal Plans To Republicans Otego-Laurens District 3 Shift Can Take Away GOP’s Majority Friends, the Democrats are coming to get us, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Chad McEvoy, the local party’s brainy director of communications, sent out an email on Oct. 1 that affirms an editorial that appeared here in early summer – the future of party politics in Otsego County will be determined in District 3, where two newcomers, Republican Rick Brockway and Democrat Caitlin…

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This Week — Oct. 17-18, 2019

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 17-18, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE AS GOES OTEGO-LAURENS, SO GOES COUNTY Brockway Family Legacy Makes Politics Natural National Strife Motivated Ogden Campaign • Adult, 4 Teens Arrested In Worcester Slaying Cardiff Giant Still Excites 150 Years After Hoax Slow EMS Response Brings Towns Together EDITORIAL McEvoy Memo Warns GOP: You May Lose COLUMNS McEVOY: Manager Certain, But Not Energy, Pot ATWELL: She Would Have Loved That Smile…

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Questions Are Neutral. Answers, Not So Much

COLUMN Questions Are Neutral. Answers, Not So Much By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Asking questions: It’s a method of teaching that goes back to earlier than 399 B.C. and Socrates, the seminal thinker who laid the foundation for much subsequent Western thought. Hence, the Socratic Method. The idea is that a question, in itself, is neutral; at worst – or best? – a provocation to think. It’s the resulting answers to the question that aren’t neutral. The hope…

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