New York looks like a climate leader on paper, but when you run the numbers the way energy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. does, our state’s legally mandated “net zero” goal starts to look less like a plan and more like a slogan.…
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As the director, Michael Tamburrino chose to set the play in 1969 with a Woodstock-style festival. The themes that he wanted to draw out of the play—environmental stewardship, the feminist revolution, resistance to a repressive political climate—map, as Michael puts it, “really, really well” onto the late 1960s.…
Common burdock, Arctium minus, often locally called “wild rhubarb,” is native to Eurasia as are many of our other local invasive plant species. Burdock was likely an early invasive carried by livestock owned by European immigrants. Sheep’s wool was a likely means of transport.…
185 YEARS AGO: Complaints have been made to us from the post offices in New Berlin, Columbus, Sherburne and elsewhere, of delays in receiving this newspaper through the mail; in answer we have to say, that the packages for those places are timely made up by us and deposited in this post office for transmission to their destinations – so that the fault of delay is not with us, but must rest upon Mr. Granger’s subordinates...…
160 YEARS AGO: Good Luck to Him—We are pleased to chronicle from time to time the doings of our Oneonta boys who have taken up their abode in the west. And, it gives us pleasure at the time to publish the following from the Anamosa “Eureka” newspaper.…
My life-long amateur studies of the natural world, particularly birds and plants, with a special affinity for ferns, have convinced me of the validity of evolution. So, in my predictably quirky way of explaining away my wealth of eccentricities, my sense is that as one ages—evolves, that is—getting to chores in a timely way is not as necessary as it used to be.…
The Glimmerglass Festival officially opened its 2026 season this past weekend with one of the most memorable opening nights in recent memory—hard to imagine, given the success of last season’s 50th anniversary celebrations!…
A cannon blast announced the beginning of the run. It would take a while for the bulls to make their way through the narrow street to the arena. I said goodbye to Nicole and climbed over the fence. At first the braver men stood pat, waiting for the sight of horns.…
Heart rate variability, or HRV, is the difference in time between heartbeats. Although we might assume our hearts beat steadily like a metronome, they don’t. The subtle “chaos” in timing gives us clues as to how well our autonomic nervous system is working.…
A public school district should not operate through intimidation. No one should ever have to fear retaliation just for demanding accountability for how their tax dollars are spent.…
