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Editorial: Pesticides—Really?

All pesticides are designed to repel or kill pests. All pesticides, then, including organic and natural formulations, are poisons, and they have a strong capacity for harming people and animals. Pesticides can be inhaled, absorbed through the skin or swallowed. They can contaminate the air, the water, and all surfaces, both living and inanimate.…
June 19, 2025
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Local Indivisible Members Call for Swift Climate Action at DEC Hearing

Climate activists have been frustrated with what they perceive as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s back-pedaling on emission controls. Hochul had been expected to announce steps to implement the cap-and-invest program in her January 2025 State of the State address. Instead, she unexpectedly delayed the program, subsequently announcing a draft GHG emissions reporting rule that would require polluters to report on, but not actually lower, their emissions.…
June 12, 2025
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Guest Column: We Need Solar Energy, But Should It Trample a Town’s Master Plan?

Solar panels do not need fertile soil. They do not need to have their hair cut and they do not bike to class in the morning. There are many other places solar fields can go. Where else is Chestertown supposed to go? There are not many other spaces the rest of Chestertown can grow into. At least not without contributing to what the Greenbelt Master Plan describes as the Eastern Shore’s “auto-oriented suburban sprawl, which threatens to erode its rural…
January 27, 2025

Happenin’ Otsego: 09-16-24

PREPARE—6 p.m. “NY Citizen Preparedness Training Program.” Families learn to prepare for natural and man-made disasters. Each attending family will receive a preparedness kit. Free; pre-registration required. Fox Care Center, John Remillard Classroom, 1 Foxcare Drive, Oneonta. Visit https://www.dhses.ny.gov/citizen-preparedness-training-calendar…
September 15, 2024
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The Partial Observer: On Natural Climate Variability

Over the last 2,000 years there has been a Roman Warm Period and a Medieval Warm Period, and both had temperatures warmer than today. As shown in the following figure, over the last 175 years temperatures have been warming up since the end of the Little Ice Age but carbon dioxide emissions have only risen sharply over the last 75 years.…
May 16, 2024
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The Partial Observer: HEAT Act Nothing But a Hot Mess

Who will pay for NY HEAT? The cost of a $672-million bailout for a few of the hundreds of thousands of utility customers currently in arrears will be borne by other utility customers. Every New Yorker will help fund subsidies for industrial solar and wind projects which could gobble up a million acres and yet fail to provide reliable electricity.…
May 9, 2024
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PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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