List of warfare alternatives: Conventional warfare, nuclear warfare, chemical warfare, biological warfare. Nuclear is by far the worst form of warfare.…
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Letters To The Editor - Page 12
In last week’s article by Bill Bellen, “Subdivision Presentations Draw Large Crowds, Raise Concerns,” comments incorrectly attributed to Town of Springfield Clerk Jeannette Armstrong regarding the proposed Manocherian subdivision were actually made by Springfield Town Planning Board Member Gretchen Sorin. We apologize for the error and have corrected the article online.…
If we as community members are so distraught with having a city administrator who does not meet the educational criteria (having a master’s degree in engineering versus the required public administration degree)...…
The owners are now proposing to subdivide six tracts into 111 lots, most of which are gerrymandered to either meet a minimum road frontage requirement or a minimum spacing for a septic and a well. These lots would be cut out of old growth forest and steep hillsides overlooking picturesque swamps, much of which is in the Glimmerglass Historic District.…
An aspect that I find troubling concerning law enforcement. The Fourth Amendment—protection from unreasonable search and seizure—is being unfairly used to shield criminals.…
Following the Sunday Hall of Fame Induction in Cooperstown, Cooperstown and Middlefield residents woke to find white nationalist recruiting posters hanging on the backs of stop signs and on utility poles. Both the Village of Cooperstown and Town of Middlefield told concerned residents that signs on telephone poles needed to be reported to NYSEG; otherwise, there was not much they could do.…
Those of you who read my first entries will recall that my goals were to raise critical issues in a readable way in hopes of encouraging each of us to question our understanding of contentious issues in our national debates, to put our own convictions on hold even for a moment, and to consider other points of view in respectful discussions with those holding alternate opinions to reduce our damaging national divide.…
When George Bush was asked if he wanted to be president when he was growing up, he replied, “Heck no, I wanted to be Willie Mays.” Me, too. When I was a kid in Texas, my father took me to see Willie Mays play in a minor league exhibition game with the Fort Worth Cats...…
A proposal submitted by EcoYotta Inc. seeks to rezone 153 acres of land, currently zoned for residential-agricultural use, into an industrial development district to make way for a data center. But the application, as it stands, is glaringly incomplete.…
The left wing diatribe forced on the audience consisted of quotations from the 2017 radical pamphlet by the Trump hater Timothy Snyder, which just happens to be prominently featured for sale in the Glimmerglass gift shop.…
