Across the many local meetings I have now attended, despite the controversies and at times high tensions, my appreciation for the American experiment in democracy has only deepened.…
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In order to cast a vote on any proposition—but especially one of such importance to the district—voters need, at the very least, to be informed of the vote in a timely manner. Ideally that information would be more than what is required legally.…
What is causing so many American citizens to turn their backs on the scientific method? Why are they dismissing and deriding the hard-won, life-saving, Earth-protecting, universe-expanding knowledge we have already earned—knowledge that has cost us dearly?…
I was not in favor of this project when I sat on the NY Forward Planning Committee and was pleased that it was not funded through those efforts. Seeing this project happen so soon, funded through other means, is a shock to all of us on Pioneer Street.…
I am writing about the impending Lakefront Viewing Platform slated to be built out over the water at the end of Pioneer Street that is now out to bid. Some of us on the block have only just found out about this project moving forward through contractors bidding on it. While I am not in favor of this project in this location, my letter today is about the failure of the village to inform anyone who will be directly impacted by…
