from GAYLORD DILLINGHAM What Are Litterers Thinking When They Toss Beer Cans? To The Editor: Although I understand that I am not alone in my annoyance and frustration over the never-ending problem of litter around Lake Otsego, it also puzzles me that anyone would cavalierly hurl a Budweiser can or McDonald’s wrapper out a car window without the slightest regard to consequence. Maybe they think: When snow melts so do all cans, bottles and plastic wrappers. Garbage of all kinds,…
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from JOHN RUDY Isn’t Resisting Everything Prescription For Decline? To the Editor: Your editorial on The Simpsons’ “D’oh Canada” episode nicely expresses an optimistic counter to the show’s negative portrayal of Upstate New York. From a macro sense, it would be hard to find fault with your even-handed depiction of the many causes of the decline across the state, as well as the various efforts at reinvention and renewal. Most telling was your observation that one of the problems of…
from HILDA WILCOX Amend The Constitution To Better Serve Nation To the Editor: With this letter I join thousands of other voices decrying the passage in the U.S. Constitution that gives our president power to override a decision of our Congress, which had recently voted to end our participation with Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen that has already been responsible for thousands of deaths from bombings, starvation or untreated illnesses – a catastrophe which the United Nations has…
SECONDARY EDITORIAL Village Hall Should Also Fund Strong Merchants’ Association While we’re at it, downtown Coopers(ghost)town needs a strong merchants’ association. So far, it’s always been a Catch-22. The Cooperstown Area Chamber of Commerce has been adamant: We only serve our members. Unfortunately, too few of downtown businesses are members to make the chamber an empowered entity to promote downtown. The result: No coherent, year-‘round downtown strategy. Again, the Village Board has $400,000+ plus a year in found money to…
COLUMN • Capitol Perspective NY Has Third Most Lyme Disease Cases By State Sen. JAMES L. SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and with the number of reported cases in New York rising each year, it is important to arm yourself and your family with the tools to avoid the disease when possible, and detect and treat when necessary. Lyme disease is an infection, caused by bacteria, that is spread by the bite…
from PAUL AGOGLIA If Path To Renewables Wrong, So What? No Harm Is Done To the Editor: Mr. Downey and Mr. Zagata, apparent experts in fracked gas, and I (pro renewable) will not be here in 50 years to say to one another, “I told you so”. Therefore it makes sense for us to ensure there is a future that includes four changes of season per year for posterity and for wildlife in Otsego County. While both Downey and Zagata…
from CHIP NORTHRUP For Now, Gas Necessary, But Before Long, Goodnight Irene To the Editor: Have followed the local fossil fuel v. renewables debate from afar and would like to suggest that there may be more compatibility between the two that either side is willing to admit. What the fossil-fuel junkies fail to understand is that the source of that gas is literally the bottom of the hydrocarbon barrel, the source rock. When it taps out, it’s Goodnight Irene. Wish…
COLUMN • View from Fly Creek Doing The Numbers On Universal Basic Income By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As the economic insecurity of a large segment of the country continues without relief (debts, taxes, low wages, health costs, education costs, etc.), some big new ideas (like the Green New Deal) are getting attention. In my last column, I examined one of these big new ideas: the proposal for a universal basic income (UBI) put forth by presidential candidate…
from JAMES R. DEAN As We Toil, Thanks For Nothing, Homer To the Editor: Regarding the ongoing New York Times articles about people moving up to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills: It cannot not come soon enough for me. I have driven back and forth through those areas for 50 years and I have seen the decline and loss of people and interest. It has gone from not being able to pass cars on the road in the 1970s,…
EDITORIAL D’oh, Homer, You Got It Wrong. Comeback Coming To New York If you had driven from Cooperstown to Franklin late Sunday afternoon, you would have been greeted by one lovely scene after another. The sun had broken through. The brilliant light green trees promised the leaves that may be out by the time you read this, contrasting with the solemn evergreens. That panorama from the top of that back road leading from Otego’s I-88 exit into Franklin was never…
