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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Tribute Concert To Fleetwood Mac FLEETWOOD MAC – 7 p.m. Performance by Tusk, Fleetwood Mac Tribute band, performing some of their greatest hits. Cost, $35 in front half of theater. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080 or visit foothillspac.org THEATER – 7 p.m. Performance by Tom Morgan “Tales from the Empire” telling story of the Morgan family, former owners of The Empire Hotel in Gilbertsville. Adapted from autobiographical stories in newspaper columns, radio show “Moneytalk.” Cost,…
Column by Tom Morgan, July 6, 2018 Money Talk On Fourth Of July, Love Letter To America We find dollops of hatred on the menu this 4th of July. Facebook bristles with diatribes. As do various social media portals. Politicians screech insults. Hollywood stars spit gutter language at the President. Mobs drive White House staff and their families from restaurants. Academics rev up poisonous demonstrations. They fill young minds with anti-American bile. News networks blister the administration. Endlessly. Protests morph…
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TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK Political Cross-Dressers May Enjoy What's In Store More Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. The national mood has set me thinking. About bi-sexuality. You know, AC/DC. Also about pouting in the back seat of the car. First, the sex thing. I know, you were hoping sex would come first. Woody Allen reckoned that bi-sexuality doubles your…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK Trump Will Bring Developer’s Imagination To White House Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. A few thoughts about the election. A big reason Trump outsmarted his opponents: He is a business guy. An entrepreneur. More – he is a developer. This business guy looked at spending campaign money differently than his politician opponents did. A business guy asks, “If…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK In D.C., Buying Influence IS Normal Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. Suppose you discovered your doctor runs a charity on the side. The charity gives away some money. But it spends most of its money on things that help the doctor. Often financially. How is the charity funded? Contributions from drug companies. They want the doc to prescribe…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK Hillary E-Mail Scandal: Were Mistakes Made? Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. Random thoughts on the Hillary email scandal: Imagine if you could suck all the political gas from this. You would be left with a pure impartial situation. Suppose you then asked: Did this senior government executive break a bunch of laws? Of course she did. Should the…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK The People Said No Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. Wha’ happened? Did earthquakes churn Europe into rubble? Did The Plague descend upon Britain? Did skyscrapers topple? Did the Queen scamper naked ‘round Picadilly Circus? Europeans are screaming at the Brits. Calling them everything but Nazis. Half the British are screaming at the other half. In fact calling them…
Playwright (And Renaissance Man) Tom Morgan Taking Play On Road By LIBBY CUDMORE Tom Morgan, the former Oneonta financial adviser known for his one-man “Tales of the Empire” plays, has now turned an argument into art. In 2012, he and wife Erna Morgan McReynolds witnessed what Morgan described as “an obsessive amount of parental control.” “I began to wonder, ‘What would happen down the road’?” he said. “It served as a catalyst.” He began writing, and what came out was his…
