Giglio: Chief Judge Should Recuse From Cuomo Trial

July 17, 2021

Our governmental institutions – executive, legislative, and judicial - are only as effective as they are trustworthy. We expect our judges to be impartial arbiters of fact, and that is why I am so upset about Chief Judge Janet DiFiore accepting prioritized testing for herself and her family during the recent COVID-19 pandemic in New York. Her acceptance of the privilege to receive speedy, at-home COVID-19 testing while utilizing public health and National Guard assets for herself and her family members violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the Public Officers Law. Worse yet, ...

Nursing Homes Enforce The Distance Rule

July 16, 2021

To the Readers’ Forum: When are we going to be able to get close to our loved ones? We still have to wear masks, which I understand if your not vaccinated. But why do we still have to stay 6 feet apart during our visits? Even during outside visits? My loved one has been vaccinated and so has the rest of our family, yet we have to stay 6 feet apart while there are employees at these nursing homes who are not vaccinated taking care of our family members. Vaccinations should be manditory if you work in a health care facility. I think every nursing home is making their own rules ...

Say Aloud ‘Hate Has No Home In Jamestown’

July 14, 2021

To The Reader’s Forum: “Hate has no home in Jamestown” was the theme of a rally in Dow Park organized as a result of what appears to be “white supremacist” defacing of statues depicting “Underground Railroad” participants, as well as after the theft of one of the statues. If you don’t know about the Underground Railroad, you missed a great history lesson from storyteller/historian Paul Leone. What I found disturbing, mostly from my own ignorance, was that the history of Jamestown itself, not to mention the Underground Railroad in Jamestown was not, and may still not ...

Readers’ Forum

July 12, 2021

Vexxed By The Non-Vaxxers To The Reader’s Forum: The older I get, the more I marvel at how people think. Many of my friends refuse to get the COVID vaccination. I ask them why. They know of or heard of someone who had a bad reaction they say. I got it and had hardly any reaction so if the other fellow is a reason to not get it, why am I not a reason to get it? Then they tell me it wasn’t tested properly. About 860 million people have been vaccinated by now. How big was the test you wanted to run? Then they say it isn’t a real vaccine or isn’t like other vaccines. ...

Another Step Toward Socialism In New York

June 25, 2021

Another Step Toward Socialism In New York To The Reader’s Forum: An economics professor did an experiment in his class of students who insisted that socialism worked. He averages all the grades on their next test. No one fails, no one received an A. After the first test, everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset. The students who studied little were happy. After the second test, the students who studied little studied even less. The students who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little. The second test average was a D. ...

Death Penalty Is Not A Deterrent To Violent Crime

June 9, 2021

To The Reader’s Forum: There is no good reason for the death penalty anywhere in the United States. Pundits favoring what is nothing more than state-sponsored killing have continued to mistakenly suggest a death penalty is a deterrent to violent crime by also claiming that violent crime is on the rise. You can’t have it both ways. That said, the death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime and here’s why. There is no plausible evidence to suggest the death penalty is a deterrent. First, society provides for degrees of murder and violent crimes, which essentially mitigates ...