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Riley Significantly Outraises Oberacker in Congressional Race

The NY-19 race is expected to be one of the most closely watched and expensive in the country in this year’s midterm elections. When Riley won his first term in a rematch with Republican Representative Marc Molinaro in 2024, it was by a margin of only 8,357 votes. For both parties, every seat counts in a House of Representatives narrowly controlled by Republicans.…
February 6, 2026

PALKA: MAGA Republicans Bear Watching

Letter from Kathleen Palka MAGA Republicans Bear Watching Everyone should be concerned about the new House majority, which couldn’t even select a Speaker without historic chaos. The House of Representatives is now controlled by MAGA Republicans. According to “The Washington Post,” over 70 percent of House Republicans are election deniers, and they will use their power to enrich their corporate donors and advance their extreme agenda—including threatening our freedom to vote, criminalizing abortion, and cutting Social Security and Medicaid. You…
January 27, 2023

STALLONE: Freedoms, Democracy Must Be Protected

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January 13, 2023

RICHARDSON-HENLEY: Far Right Agenda a Real Concern

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January 13, 2023

Molinaro Listening to Business Leaders

Molinaro Listening to Business Leaders Vinnie Russo, proprietor of Mickey’s Place, talks with Marc Molinaro in a visit to Cooperstown on Tuesday, August 2 Marc Molinaro, candidate for Antonio Delgado’s U.S. House of Representatives seat, was on Main Street in Cooperstown on Tuesday talking to business owners and people in general. “This is probably my tenth or twelve visit to this region. The region still holds on to the small villages and a sense of community, and the surrounding areas.…
August 4, 2022

Two candidates, two offices

Harry Wilson talks crime, Matt Castelli talks security as candidates ramp up campaigns Two candidates, two different offices – neither complete newcomers to public service but each, in his own way, relative newcomers to political battlefields. The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta spoke last week with Matt Castelli, a Democrat looking to unseat Republican Elise Stefanik in the 21st Congressional District, newly drawn to include the Village of Cooperstown and the northern half of Otsego County. The newspapers also spoke…
June 2, 2022

KUZMINSKI: Democrats Can Rebuild Around Climate Change, Economic Justice

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December 3, 2018

Father Conroy, House Chaplin, Asked To Resign

Fired House Chaplain Preached At St. Mary's The chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, Father Patrick J. Conroy, S.J., shares a laugh with Joe Russo, Mickey’s Place owner Vin Russo’s dad, at “the flagpole” in downtown Cooperstown when he came to town in October 2016. (AllOTSEGO.com photo) COOPERSTOWN – Father Patrick J. Conroy, who filled in in at St. Mary's "Our Lady of the Lake" Catholic Church when the pastor, Father John Rosson, went on vacation in October, has…
April 27, 2018

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