THE McEVOY MEMO County Manager, Certainty; Energy, Pot Still Up In Air Editor’s Note: Chad McEvoy, the Otsego County Democratic Party’s communications director, emailed this memo Oct. 1, alerting county Democrats they are one seat away from winning a majority on the county Board of Representatives, and what it means if that happens. By CHAD McEVOY • OCDC Communications Director In 2019 the political stars are aligning just right to give Democrats the best shot yet at capturing an outright…
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LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Too Little Gas Under NY To Be Fracked Profitably To the Editor: A recent column in your newspaper listed the benefits of fracking to Pennsylvanians – where, evidently, all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average, implying that the same could be true in New York if we just got to fracking the place. Catch is, as some Cooperstonians proved years ago, there’s probably not much…
LETTER from JAY FLEISHER NY Marcellus Shale Too Shallow To Frack Safely To the Editor: Any consideration of the potential environmental hazards related to fracking must consider the rocks through which the fracking wells are drilled – it’s called the “geologic setting.” Discussion of the hazards related to fracking that ignores the geologic setting is flawed by omission. Yet, Tom Morgan’s column in last week’s edition on the topic of fracking makes no mention of this. As pointed out in…
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…
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…
PRESIDENT MORRIS’ INSTALLATION The Revolution’s Won Might Barbara Jean Morris, SUNY Oneonta (And Hartwick College) Create New Model? • “As chief executive officer, you are assigned all powers, duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post.” KRISTINA M. JOHNSON • SUNY Chancellor • After the week that was, Barbara Jean Morris, SUNY Oneonta’s new president, must have heard those words with mixed feelings. Just three days before her Saturday, Oct. 5, installation, a threat to shoot up the campus – it turned…
MONEY MATTERS • Column Fracking Bust? Or Fracking Boom? By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Who you gonna believe? When people argue over contentious issues today they often follow a predictable pattern. He cites a scientific study that says blah blah about climate change. She cites a scientific study that claims the opposite. Oh yeah? He says her study was published in a junk journal. Oh yeah? She lists the scientist’s credentials. And claims his scientist has the wrong…
