For procedures like spinal fusions and hip and knee replacements—among the most common operations in medicine—the choice of hospital can mean the difference between a full recovery and months of avoidable setbacks, pain, and stress.…
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While the miracle of childbirth comes with a decade or two of existential preparation before any contribution to the tax base, immigration bypasses this waiting period entirely. New arrivals, fluent in spreadsheets and the language of quarterly earnings, begin filing their returns with an immediacy that borders on the virtuous.…
Cutting funding to libraries will not only force good people out of work, it will steal precious resources from the most vulnerable. This will lead to worsening crime rates and an increase in the ongoing homeless crisis.…
Another limerick from Waldo Johnston, questioning what he terms the "DEI illusion."…
The legal basis of the American Revolution and the pretext for the imminent revolt was the Declaration of Independence, which, appended to the high ideals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of a happiness”—which are goals of the Enlightenment, not theocratic mandates...…
“A Night at the Movies” also marks the return of the Guest Conductor Competition, where three finalists from different communities will take turns leading the orchestra: Molly Hernandez of Cooperstown, Sean Lewis of Oneonta, and Ray Pucci of Delhi.…
185 YEARS AGO: Marriage is to a woman at once the happiest and saddest event of her life. It is the promise of future bliss, raised on the death of all present enjoyment. She quits her home, her parents, her companions, her occupations, and amusements—everything on which she has hitherto depended for comfort, for affection, for kindness, for pleasure. The parents by whose advice she has been guided, the sister by whom she has avowed to impart every embryo thought…
70 YEARS AGO: A new physical therapy department, a new basal metabolism and electro-cardiograph room and a new three-bed patients’ room in the enlarged and improved Fox Hospital will be made possible by a memorial gift of $43,200 received from Mrs. Beatrice W. Blanding, president and principal owner of the Oneonta Sales Co., Inc. One of the rooms selected by Mrs. Blanding will stand as a memorial to her father Riley J. Warren, who in 1912 founded the company which…
The New York State Department of Health has a long-standing statewide advisory against using surface water for drinking unless treated by a municipal water system. In technical terms, surface water refers to [any] lake, pond, stream, and river where the water table is exposed to the surface of the earth, i.e. any water in the lake (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SurfaceWater).…
In the president’s mind, the IRS vanishes and we all enjoy the same privileges as Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos (aka the New American Oligarchs) because we won’t have to pay taxes! T…