COLUMN THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Power Grid Mixes Good, Bad And Ugly Electrons A few weeks ago, an article appeared about installing a geo-thermal system to heat and cool the family home. The subject was very transparent about the fact geo-thermal systems require considerable electricity to run the pumps that circulate the fluid and to provide the energy necessary to make up the differential between the temperature of the water sourced from beneath the ground (normally 55 degrees) and…
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EDITORIAL At Colgate Graduation, Congressman Delgado Elevates Mother’s Love “There are no second acts in American lives” has been attributed – some say misattributed – to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Antonio Delgado – as he recounts in his splendid commencement address last weekend at his alma mater, Colgate University – is a contradiction in point. His experience as hip-hop artist AD, The Voice, which he assesses here for the first time we’ve seen, very well could have ruled him out as…
from CATHE ELLSWORTH Trustees Should Help, Not Hinder Downtown Revival To the Editor: In last week’s newspaper, Cooperstown Village Trustee Richard Sternberg penned a column in which he went to great lengths to point out all the various village projects that need to be completed. Included on the list such things as the roads, not to mention other infrastructure needs, and the wastewater treatment plant as well as the Doubleday Field upgrade. When added to this list of needed undertakings,…
COLUMN If Johnson City, Then Why Not Cooperstown? Editor’s Note: Oneonta’s City Hall is actively helping private developers revive its downtown, but downstate developers are starting to recognize a demand for housing Upstate and seeking to fill the need. Per this report on BBJN.com, might someone consider Cooperstown’s vacant downtown CVS as an opportunity? JOHNSON CITY – A New York City developer has plans to build a three-story, multi-family apartment building in Johnson City. Praveen Kamath, founder and managing member of AOM…
from RICK HULSE SR. Main Street In Trouble, Yet Housing In Demand To the Editor: Your editorial about Main Street is timely. When CVS and the General Store closed, businesses that remained experience a plunge in traffic and revenue. We are in a tragic situation with no apparent leadership equipped to deal with it. My advice to Matt Hazzard at the time was to go all out nationally to determine interest in the CVS space. Parking revenue is probably restricted…
from JASON HEWLETT No One Should Be Forced To Take Psychiatric Drugs To the Editor: As a man diagnosed with a mental illness for the past 20+ years, I have the lived experience to give the public a patient’s view of the dangers of psychiatric drugs. They are not at all what most people, including those who are mentally ill, think they are. If you were to Google “Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery?” by Lawrence Stevens J.D., you would get…
from JULIE HUNTSMAN, CHRIS KJOLHEDE Methodists At Fly Creek Pray Peacefully Together To the Editor: We appreciate this paper’s coverage of local dissent from the global United Methodist Church’s “Traditional Plan” which passed by a slim majority at the church’s conference in February of this year. To those not acquainted with the issue, the Traditional Plan continues the UMC Book of Discipline’s codified discrimination of people identifying as LGBTQ. Those so identifying are not turned away from church, but…
COLUMN ‘Love Conquers All’ At Colgate Graduation, Delgado Says He Resisted Fighting Hate With Hate Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado’s commencement address Sunday, May 19, at Colgate University, his alma mater. Click here to read related editorial. I want to start with a story about my mother, who has often told me that she loves me with every fiber of her being, and there is absolutely nothing that I can do about it. She…
EDITORIAL Downtown Revival IS Exciting; Let’s ACT Excited About Plans There’s a lot going on in the City of Oneonta right now, as City Hall’s DRI (the Downtown Revitalization Initiative) begins distributing $10 million in state money, leveraging it in a way that attracts many millions more in private investment. Certainly, there are time pressures. There are conflicting agendas. There’s not ever going to be enough money to make everybody happy. Lately, environmentalists are ready to swoop down on any…
from SHIRLEY O’SHEA RSS Foes ‘Do Not Want To Live Near Crazies’ To the Editor: The individuals comprising the Sixth Ward Neighbors United are clearly not willing to be neighbors to persons with psychiatric disorders who need housing assistance. The Neighbors claim that they want full investigation of Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS) for financial improprieties prior to approval of applications for low-income housing for mentally ill residents.…
