First, I’d like to commend you on your editorial of July 30th (“The Agony and the Ecstacy”). It’s refreshing to read that you always try to remain neutral with the political back and forth.…
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Our general manager/senior editor describes putting out the newspaper each week as giving birth. The “gestation” period for “The Freeman’s Journal” and “Hometown Oneonta” is six days.…
While my goal was to invite conversation, neither Jill nor Nicole seemed to challenge my main point, which was that our partisan disdain for Trump is causing us to ignore the “real issues,” many of which I specifically described in the July 2 edition.…
Not all of the colonists’ grievances against the King of England are relevant to Mr. Trump’s policies, but below are enough to make me very concerned about the state of this country.…
According to Mr. Johnston, visitors to the World Cup were surprised that the Americans they met were friendly, welcoming and generous. This may say more about our current president than it does about ordinary Americans.…
Disagree with me all you want, but individuals and entities, especially Democrats, have unleashed an unrelenting and passionate personal assault on Donald Trump and, by extension, on our country to maintain their power.…
The dirty, not-so-secret business model of large universities is that they use grad students as teaching assistants (TAs) to class sections of a much larger lecture hall class.…
The FJ has published several opinion pieces by the same author, Francis Sempa, ostensibly in an effort to provide a right-wing take on current affairs...…
Those of you who read my first entries will recall that my goals were to raise critical issues in a readable way in hopes of encouraging each of us to question our understanding of contentious issues in our national debates, to put our own convictions on hold even for a moment, and to consider other points of view in respectful discussions with those holding alternate opinions to reduce our damaging national divide.…
Waldo Johnston ponders the vagaries of immigration law enforcement.…
