When entering the country, Pedro was granted a hearing with an immigration judge in 2027 and given permission to live and work in the U.S. while awaiting that hearing. In return, Pedro has worked, paid taxes, and provided modest support for his family in Ecuador.…
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Following the Sunday Hall of Fame Induction in Cooperstown, Cooperstown and Middlefield residents woke to find white nationalist recruiting posters hanging on the backs of stop signs and on utility poles. Both the Village of Cooperstown and Town of Middlefield told concerned residents that signs on telephone poles needed to be reported to NYSEG; otherwise, there was not much they could do.…
The EPA’s July 18 announcement of its plans to close the Office of Research and Development and the Health and Human Services restructuring plan that pushed out practically everyone staffing the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health give evidence that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. have rarely, if ever, met a polluter or workplace abuser they could not support, all politspeak notwithstanding.…
July 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the death John Lewis, the 1960s civil rights leader and, eventually, Georgia Congressman. In 1965, Lewis was brutally beaten by Alabama State Troopers while attempting to march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama with 600 others.…
The mood of the day was overall peaceful, even joyful. It just felt good to be among kindred spirits—good to be showing up and speaking out for justice, equality, democracy and the overall well-being of “we the people.”…
The Oneonta rally joined more than 2,000 No Kings Day events held across the country in opposition to what protestors believe are the authoritarian policies of the Trump administration, including the $45 million taxpayer-funded military parade held in Washington, D.C. the same day.…
AllOtsego’s June 12 editorial, “No Defense for Violence,” decried “the riots and violence” in Los Angeles while whitewashing and ignoring the Trump administration’s own violent tactics and rhetoric that triggered the L.A. protests and threatened to escalate situation.…
I met Ruth Bader Ginsberg at The Glimmerglass Festival. She was standing behind me at the bar. I turned to her and asked, “What’ll you have, Judge ?” She looked up, “White wine.” I turned to the bartender, got the wine and handed it to the judge while her bodyguards glared at me.…
Recent claims that Harvard fosters instructional bias and leftist indoctrination ignore the university’s long history of producing influential conservative leaders in business, politics, and academia. From Supreme Court justices to CEOs and prominent intellectuals, Harvard has educated generations of right-leaning thinkers who have shaped national discourse.…
Predictability is essential to spiritual stability. For most of our history we have been able, despite the execrable behaviors of some, to base our collective lives on certain assumptions. I write here of birds and spring chores because they are part and parcel of what have always been nature’s patterns. We depend on some certainties if we are to function with any degree of stability.…
