LETTER from LAURA MALLOY Buccheri Understands What Laurens Needs To the Editor: I am proud to endorse Dean Buccheri for Laurens Town Supervisor. Dean has lived, worked and volunteered in Laurens for 29 years. He brings excellent credentials though his education, work experience, volunteering and community participation. Dean has a BS degree in Business Economics from SUNY Oneonta and has operated a small business in the Town of Laurens for 25 years. Dean is a past member of the Laurens…
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LETTER from DAN BUTTERMANN Jill Basile Record Show Growing Responsibility To the Editor: I am writing to enthusiastically suggest we vote for Jill Basile for county representative from District 14 (Ward 7-8). I have been fortunate to get to know Jill during her campaign. This campaign is not the start of her contributions to benefit our community either, as she has been giving to our community for many years. Her resume is rich with experience that will greatly benefit our…
LETTER from BILL SHUE Scott Harrington Has Roots In Sixth Ward Politics To the Editor: I have known Scott Harrington since he was a boy. Now he is a responsible husband and father. He was raised by two hardworking people, Stan and Mary Jane Harrington. Scott saw first-hand the ideals of true volunteerism and dedication to the task at hand. Unfortunately, Stan, a county representative for Wards 5-6, passed away at a fairly young age. Both he and Mary Jane Harrington gave to…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Broadband, Renewables, Codes, Pot – Why Not? To the Editor: I was reading your newspaper’s “expose” of the Democrats’ top secret plan to take over the county as if it were satire, until I realized you were serious, that changing party leadership was some kind of threat to the county’s political somnambulance. Of course it’s time for a change! Bring it on. Everything outlined in the McEvoy Memo would be good for the economic health and wellbeing for all…
THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Regulation Coming Home To Roost By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For several decades our nation’s environmental policies have, for the most part, been driven by emotion or what “seemed,” according to popular opinion, to be the “right” thing to do. As a result, many of those policies lacked a scientific basis and the unintended consequences are, like lost chickens, coming home to roost. New York State’s ban on fracking may well be such an…
ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Revisit Richfield Comp Plan: Elect Palevsky, Eckler, Bello In the lead-up to the Richfield Town Board adopting a new Comprehensive Plan & Zoning Code, people said they want to see the town come together. People observed that “nothing’s happened” in the Richfield Springs area in the past 20 years (or longer). Send Political Letters To info@allotsego.com By noon Monday, 10/28 People mourned the decline in enrollment of the Richfield Springs Central School, which graduated 29 seniors on June…
ISSUE & DEBATE Will Lofts On Dietz Use Too Much Parking? Editor’s Note: Following a sometimes heated Oneonta Planning Commission public hearing Wednesday, Oct. 16, which focused on whether the Lofts on Dietz, 66 proposed units of artists’ lofts and housing, will use too much of the Dietz Street parking lot, this exchange appeared on Facebook earlier this week: ►from ALAN CLEINMAN, president, Cleinman Performance Partners, Oneonta Fellow citizens of Oneonta: I feel compelled to challenge the notion that the…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER In Land Of Plenty, Many Are Needy By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This column is titled, “We are all in this together,” but it doesn’t always appear to be so. The U.S. economy is the world’s largest – our GDP will exceed $21 trillion in 2019. Our GDP represents 20 percent of total global output, is larger than China’s GDP, and is projected to grow 2.5 percent in 2019. Our GDP per person…
LETTER from DICK DOWNEY No Natural Gas Upstate? Politics Is The Reason To the Editor: Tom Morgan’s column, “Frack Bust? Or frack Boom?” (10/10/19) cited multiple studies showing the safety and economic benefits of the shale revolution. Naturally, it drew the usual flurry of nay-sayers. Jay Fleisher, Ph.D., worried about shallow Marcellus formations in the Catskills and Northeast Pennsylvania. As a geologist, he should know most Catskill shale is “cooked” and therefore out of play. The well depths of Northeast…
LETTER from ELLEN FALIN Harrington Has 6th Ward Spirit Elect Him To Common Council To the Editor: Residents of Oneonta’s Sixth Ward are fortunate to have Scott Harrington as a candidate for Common Council. Scott grew up in the Sixth Ward. He knows our history and concerns because he has experienced them first hand. He has that genuine Sixth Ward spirit that can’t be faked. He’s willing to reach across party lines, look for commonsense answers, and most importantly, set…
