LETTER from FRED SCHNEIDER Coronavirus Extracts Outsized Sacrifices From Small Business To the Editor: So… here is the state of affairs for everyone who chose to create jobs by rolling their dice with their own capital, their own sweat, and their own ingenuity on building a business, only to have it pulled out from underneath them through no fault of their own: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (not a government entity but a very important pro-business non-profit) recently announced a…
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FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE No Need For A Brick By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Nope, I’m not addressing you from the front porch – it’s icy out there. Rather, I’m sitting just inside a front window, woolgathering. Though, in fact, it’s not woolgathering that I’m doing, literal or figurative. Just now I’ve been spending our prescribed aloneness running through gratefully the crowd of adults who shaped my once young man’s values. And one of those was my Great Aunt…
VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Better Living Through Plastics By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Governor Cuomo is about to extend the temporary ban on fracking in New York and make it permanent via his budget Bill. Some will cheer that action, but those who understand its unintended consequences won’t be among them. Indeed, they will live in fear of another pandemic where we don’t, as a result of his ban, have access to the materials needed to combat any…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 What’s All This Testing About? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com At his Sunday, April 19, press conference, Governor Cuomo reported his 22-year-old daughter had asked him, “What’s all this testing about?” He seemed to be a little surprised by the question. He said he thought he was explaining this well during his previous press conferences but realized he had not been getting his points across to everybody. He went over this again.…
EDITORIAL In Time Of Trial, All Of Us Have A Chance To Do Good Otsego County is blessed with generous foundations. The Clark Foundation and its spinoffs have, of course, been transformative, and continue to be, with supporting the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore and Farmers’ museums, Glimmerglass Opera and more than $10 million in college scholarships to top local students countywide since the 1960s. The Clark’s Scriven Foundation is focused exclusively within the county, and it’s the rare…
ALBANY PERSPECTIVE On Mend, Seward Turns Sights On Coronavirus I want to start this week’s column with a heartfelt THANK YOU to all who have reached out to me and my wife Cindy over the past few weeks as we both battled the Novel Coronavirus. Your well wishes and prayers meant a great deal and gave us both strength during our fight against this sinister virus. As the pandemic continues there are so many on the front lines that are…
Building A Foundation – Together Community Foundation Takes Aim At COVID-19 By HARRY LEVINE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 has changed our world. Our community faces dire health and economic shocks that have disrupted our way of life and will continue to affect us for the foreseeable future. The Community Foundation of Otsego County was created in 2019 with the mission of improving the quality of life for all the Otsego County area. We were about to publicly announce our…
LETTER TO EDITOR from JUDITH PACHTER The Answer: Choose People Over Money To the Editor: As a former registered nurse and a retired financial adviser, I see both sides of this horrendous dilemma. But in my mind, there is no amount of money that is worth one death that could have been prevented. We sit in our isolated homes in rural Central New York and feel a bit sorry for ourselves because we cannot do or should not do what…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from VERA TALEVI All Prayed, And Things Started To Happen To the Editor: Thank you all for the wonderful response to last Wednesday 3 o’clock prayers. I know our prayers have helped – two weeks in a row there was good news reported: On April 8, the good news was the CURVE WAS FLATTENING and then on April 16 – again, a day after our Wednesday prayers – the good news was not only had the…
POEM TO THE EDITOR from TOM HEITZ, SHARON STUART Stuck At Home Stuck at home Wrote this poem • Had some lunch With Captain Crunch Washed the dish Made a wish • Fed the cat Found my hat Broke a mirror Bad luck here • Made the tea Had to pee Sun went down Moon is round • Took a fall In the hall Bumped my head Went to bed • Drank some booze Took a snooze Up at dawn…
