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Stealing Non-Political Signs Makes Little Sense To The Reader’s Forum: On Monday morning my wife came to me and asked if I had taken my political flag down. I told her no, and when I went outside to look I was presented with the fact that not only was the flag torn from its location but also six support and thank you signs for our police departments and our local fire department were also gone. I suspect that I was targeted as only two other police signs were taken in the whole village and it was because I had a political flag that they did not agree with. It’s a shame that ...

The Name Of The Game Is To Win

To The Reader’s Forum: American politics have always been a rough ride, and even our founders threw mud. The name of the game is to win. Our first president was spared the stump but those that followed weren’t wearing halos. Voters do not condone most of the behavior of today’s presidential candidates but for the most part, we tend to ignore it. The medium is the message, Marshall Mcluhan. It is all about optics. It is all about how the participant perceives the messages. If the voter seeks out only one source and if that source takes a chorus of repetition, then that ...

A Thank You To Congressman Reed For His Support, Efforts

To The Reader’s Forum: As the 19th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America passes, it is with a somber heart I remember that day and the days and months following. As a member of the New York State Police, like so many of my brothers and sisters, I was detailed as first responder to Ground Zero to help with the massive effort to protect and restore a sense of recovery to New York City. The sights and smells along with the stories of human tragedy will forever be etched in my mind. As a result of my time spent there, I have twice been treated for malignant cancer ...

Where Have Normalcy And Decency Gone?

To The Reader’s Forum: Where have normalcy and decency gone? Obviously, healthwise, Coronavirus/COVID-19 has significantly interrupted normalcy. It has been over 100 years since the last pandemic hit America. Fighting a “novel” disease should bring Americans together inasmuch as it’s really no different than other “natural” disasters, or wars, yet, the normalcy of crisis unity is hard to find with Coronavirus. Political normalcy has also been, at least, interrupted, too. Sure, politics creates philosophical “enemies”, but the government, the glue of American ...

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The Hard Work Of County Staff, Nurses Has Gone Unappreciated To The Reader’s Forum: A few weeks ago as the story about Fieldbrook Foods was breaking, a rather negative article appeared blasting the local health department and county government “handling” of the news. The story line was something to the effect that they were “fiddling while Rome burned” and that important issues regarding public safety were slow to emerge in face of mounting evidence in the press that there was a risk to the public. As a long time member of the Health Department staff, initially as its ...

Republicans Have Become The Anti-Democracy Party

To The Reader’s Forum: Over the past 28 years the only Republican presidential candidate to win a majority of the American public’s vote was George W. Bush in 2004. Seven presidential elections and only once did the people of our country choose a Republican. 2020 will be the eighth as even Republican leadership concedes it is virtually impossible for Donald Trump to win the popular vote this year. After receiving 3 million fewer votes in 2016 Mr. Trump was unprepared, he had no plan to govern. The only coherent or consistent policy of Mr. Trump was undoing every action ...