For the past two years, the Senate and Assembly have marked Sunshine Week by passing different FOIL reform bills, yet none have become law. This year, transparency advocates urge both houses to unite behind a package of four key bills designed to modernize FOIL and enhance government accountability:…
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Editorial Cartoon: March 20, 2025…
According to Martin O’Malley, former commissioner of the Social Security system, Social Security is already running lean, with overhead of 1.2 percent. Compare that to an insurance company like Liberty Mutual, with overhead of 23 percent.…
Many NYSEG/Avangrid utility consumers reported having received invoices for a four-week period that represent an estimated 400 percent increase in utility expenses when compared to previous years. In some cases, their monthly utility costs are well over $1,000.00!…
I have written this verse in hopes that it will bring some humor to our contentious debate about climate change. Enjoy.…
The Department of Government Efficiency, “DOGE,” is ostensibly in charge of increasing the efficiency of the departments it audits. What it is actually doing is crippling or eliminating those agencies—the VA, FAA, DoE, USAID, National Parks Service, Post Office, FEMA, etc. for the purpose of monetizing their assets and privatizing their services.…
News from the Noteworthy from the Community Arts Network of Oneonta CANO Expands Summer Program for Kids, Teens Founded 55 years ago, the Community Arts Network of Oneonta provides arts education, cultural presentations, and community events to residents and visitors in the region while supporting artists in the greater Oneonta area. The organization has undergone many transformations as it seeks to best meet the area’s current needs. The Summer Arts Program for Kids and Teens has grown each year since…
I began with an extensive multi-month-long period of research and data collection. This entailed delving into the characters and technologies that defined the evolution of journalism as a whole since roughly the Spanish American War. From yellow journalism, to the advent of television, to the breakdown of ethics as we approach today, I gained immense swaths of knowledge that I was previously unaware of.…
135 YEARS AGO: The Fly Creek M.E. Church under the pastorate of Rev. J.S. Southworth has been enjoying a year of prosperity unsurpassed in its history. The church property has been greatly improved and beautified, and the spacious auditorium is filled from Sabbath to Sabbath with an intelligent and devout people whose aim is to worship God in the beauty of holiness. During the year there have been one hundred added to the church on probation, and some fifteen taken…
135 YEARS AGO: One curious effect of the mild weather of the past three months has been to “obliterate,” in the minds of many, the idea of winter. People are often heard speaking of “last fall,” when further inquiry develops the fact that January is meant. So, too, events of February are referred to as spring. There has been no true Boreal weather and the mind unconsciously has adapted itself to the fact. What the next few weeks may bring…