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…
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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…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER • Column POVERTY It’s All Around Us Editor’s Note: Larry Bennett of East Meredith, Brewery Ommegang’s recently retired creative director who is much active in community causes, joins The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta in this edition as a regular columnist. By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Last Saturday, Oct. 5, 200 people attended a forum in Oneonta, “Living with Dignity and the Crisis of Poverty in Otsego and Delaware Counties.” Over three hours,…
PRESIDENT MORRIS’ INSTALLATION Feather, Circle Represent Search For A Better World Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Barbara Jean Morris’ Oct. 5 inaugural address at her installation as SUNY Oneonta’s eighth president. You might have noticed the symbol of a feather in a circle on my inaugural invitation, the cover of today’s program, and the banners behind the stages. The Native American symbol of the circle best illustrates my desire for a community that is based on mutual understanding,…
