With roughly 80,000 summer visitors, I am particularly concerned about the bed and breakfast proprietors who may have such encounters with ICE agents seeking information about, or access to, their guests or guest lists. Here is what they should know.…
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People feel powerless: They wonder what they can do. The Internet is full of would-be useful advice, all the way from meditation to medication. Write to your congressperson: as if Marjorie Taylor Greene is sure to listen to you.…
Those of us over the age of 60 and with 20 years of Bassett employment had, at retirement, received a written pledge that there would be no increase in costs to us going forward. We were therefore dismayed to receive notification of increased charges.…
For all who are distressed by the outcome of November 5, I would like to share this poem which was sent to me and which I found comforting. It was retrieved by Jesse Lambert and read at a church in Cooperstown.…
There is a need both for younger persons and for people who can work at non white-collar jobs—on farms and elsewhere. At the same time, there has been articulated resistance coming from the Otsego County Board of Representatives to accommodating any resettlement of immigrant/refugee persons to Upstate New York, as proposed by Governor Hochul (See FJ/HO April 2023).…
Many persons have expressed their intent to pray for Trump after the attempt to assassinate him. They might like to add the names of the nine persons who died as a consequence of the political violence he instigated and supported on January 6th, and which he continues to defend as a legitimate protest against his lost election.…
We note that Stefanik was dismissed from her Harvard committee at the Kennedy School as a senior advisor because of her persistent intellectual dishonesty in denying the validity of the past presidential election.…
Letter from Mary Anne Whelan Politicos Need To Read the Bill The recent letters to the editor by State Senator Peter Oberacker and Assemblyman Chris Tague condemning the recently passed Clean Slate Act (Freeman’s Journal Nov. 23, 2023) suggest that they either have not read the bill, or don’t know how to interpret it correctly, or are gambling on taking a hit against a Democratic governor and Assembly, or all three. Interested readers can read it directly by looking it…
In his “Partial Observer” opinion piece of August 10, Mr. Caiazza focuses entirely on the relative costs of electric bills to the consumer. His analysis is incomplete. What are the costs to us and to the planet—of ongoing global warming?…
On Sunday, after attending the opera, I came home to find that my newly-acquired dog was nowhere to be found. She had been securely shut in the house and had dog door access only to the well-fenced back yard. As I had had her for less than 24 hours, she did not yet have dog tags and was not chipped. She comes obediently when called, but didn’t. My heart was in my mouth as I searched—the path where we had…
