Over the past week—and prior to that—I have repeatedly noticed that the Price Chopper puts up signs in their meat section that advertise “weekly specials!” with an alleged reduction in per-pound prices—for example, “80 percent ground beef,” and stacked immediately next to or against the sign will be that product, but with a significantly higher price per pound.…
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Recently I was able to successfully correct Alexa on the subject of Trump’s felony convictions (34 counts, New York State Court, May 2024) and, in civil court, liable for sexual abuse against a woman...…
Many people misunderstand the good points of rounding up various people and deporting them. I am all in favor of it, as long as they are truly criminals. For example, I know of a man with recent multiple convictions, by judge and jury trials...…
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.…
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.…
