When the presence of harmful algae blooms was first detected in Lake Otsego, many of the locals, myself included, did their best impersonations of headless chickens in a one-act play, titled “The Sky Is Falling.” No one seemed to know how to respond. Not so Rhonda and Doug Willies.…
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Not long after we moved to the village, we realized that Cooperstown is a matriarchy and that the preferred sport of the matriarchs is wing-shooting. The late, great Bunny Hamilton introduced us to Anne Logan, the grand dame of the town, who asked me if I shot.…
Dr. Clifton Wharton Jr. and his wife, Dolores Wharton, who died June 7th, were the two most accomplished people I have ever known. And I have known popes and presidents. In their retirement, they were summer residents of Cooperstown. Clif was a WWII fighter pilot, PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, CEO of SUNY, TIAA, Rockefeller Foundation, and Michigan State. Dolores was equally accomplished.…
Almost every country in the world has defaulted on its debt or devalued its currency at one time or another—with some notable exceptions being Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Holland, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.…
Musk’s DOGE hackers could only find .00008 of the DoD budget to cut, all for “woke” programs. No efficiency cuts for wasteful spending, no elimination of cost overruns, no cuts of obsolete programs. Just more DOGE Thought Police censorship.…
Pope Leo spent most of his career in Latin America, helping the poor. So the cardinals sent the world a message: Here is the American Pope you’ve been waiting for, and, surprise, this one actually understands what Christianity is all about. This guy is as woke as Jesus.…
Chip Northrup’s letter to the editor titled “‘We the People’ Versus Tyrants” that appeared in the April 24 edition of “The Freeman’s Journal” accurately portrayed my distant ancestor, John Adams, as an ardent critic of the tyranny of King George.…
Harvard University is one of the first institutions and, thus far, the most prominent, to stand up to Trump’s extortionate shakedown of universities, law firms and corporations. That takes the kind of money, courage and resolve that most institutions don’t have.…
Who do you know that is being trumped to death? A retiree that’s trying to talk to a Social Security agent on the telephone? An undocumented worker that frets her U.S.-born children may lose their birth-right citizenship?…
The legal basis of the American Revolution and the pretext for the imminent revolt was the Declaration of Independence, which, appended to the high ideals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of a happiness”—which are goals of the Enlightenment, not theocratic mandates...…
