LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Revolution NOT Yet Won, Minority Designations Show To the Editor: I think your editorial in last week’s newspaper about the installation of SUNY Oneonta’s new president made a gross mistake in concluding: “The revolution is over. It’s won.” The revolution, or whatever the changes have been, are not over. There has been improvement, especially in our society, but the “battle” has not been won. I crowed at my minority friends exactly the same sentiment when Barack…
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LETTER from TOPHER HAMMOND Friend Reports Standoff With Bassett’s New K9s To the Editor: I wrote previously about the new K-9 at Bassett Hospital, and I predicted that the dog would be used to intimidate people. On Oct. 2, I got a phone call from a friend who has lived next to the hospital for decades. She was in a state of shock because six Bassett security personnel had just chased a skinny black man off Bassett property with the…
LETTER from JASON HEWLETT Pornography Is At Root Of Many Modern Evils To the Editor: In America today, it seems like whenever we turn on the news or read the newspaper there are reports and headlines of sexual crimes but most people are content to just leave it up to law enforcement and the courts. What we all need to understand, regardless of our take on the Bible or other religious beliefs, is that sexual crimes can only be prevented…
LETTER from CONNIE WRBA When Needed, Where Has Superman Gone? To the Editor: Where have you gone, Superman? Whatever happened to the spirit of our long-forgotten caped hero fighting a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way? It is apparent that America has lost its way. It’s time to get our country back on track. It’s time to shed our divisive labels: conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat. It’s time for all of us to embrace the label: American. It’s…
LETTER from MARTY VAN LENTEN BECKER In Supporting Trump Inquiry, Delgado Doing As He Should To the Editor: You ask in last week’s edition: “Is Congressman Risking His Reelection Over Impeachment?” Antonio Delgado states that he made his decision to vote for an inquiry into articles of impeachment because he “…took an oath before God and his fellow citizens to uphold the Constitution of the United States.” That’s what we elected him to do. We didn’t elect him to leave…
LETTER from NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM We Should Talk Through Impeachment Issues To the Editor: Re: West Davenport & Mike Zagata versus Fly Creek & Adrian Kuzminski! Thank you, Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta, for giving us both sides of the impeachment debate. Impeachment tests our constitutional system of government: When the executive and legislative branches so disagree as to freeze governmental action, impeachment calls us to the third and fourth estates: Our present impeachment process is likely to be resolved by:…
LETTER from GERALD WEINBERGER Oust Trump, Focus On Problems To the Editor: Local Republicans should start petitions urging President Trump to resign. Senate Republicans will not convict him. Impeachment per se will not get rid of Trump, who obviously enjoys all the attention. Vice President Mike Pence is hardly a good Republican candidate because of sexual bigotry, but can be an improvement over Trump, who lost the popular election by 10 million votes. If Trump does not resign: incumbent Republicans or…
LETTER from MENOUKHA ROBIN CASE Native American Life Wasn’t ‘Tribal’ To the Editor: I read Jim Atwell’s Front Porch Perspective, “The Originating Sin,” with great dismay. Although I share his disgust with the ignorance-laced factionalism that dominates the airwaves, I find his use of the word tribalism to be misinformed and highly offensive, to such an extent that I feel compelled to respond. I agree that as Americans our education in what he calls tribalism starts early. There is no doubt…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP When Canary Croaks, Jump! To the Editor: Miners once took birds down into mines knowing that birds would keel over from methane, lack of oxygen or soot before the miners did. When the canary croaked, out of the mine you go. According to a recent study, birds have been dying off in unprecedented numbers in North America for that last half century. The culprit? Us. The pesticides we use on the bugs that the birds eat…
LETTER from DAN CROWELL In September, Budget Is Always Out Of Balance; By Year’s End, Balanced To the Editor: I hope all is well in our hometown! I saw your article (“Treasurer Warns Of Overages, But Chair Unruffled,” Sept. 20 on www.All- OTSEGO.com) on the budget gap. For what it is worth, in some ways the county treasurer and county board chair’s perspectives are portrayed as divergent. However, from my experience, they are both right. There is no black magic…
