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This Couple Could Be Your Neighbors

You wouldn’t think a two-hour movie that is largely an interview with a husband and wife would be this engaging. But it is. The movie, called “Created Equal,” is largely a biography of him. In his life, she has played no small role. Her upbringing was far different from his. She tells the story of when she first went to his hometown, she could hardly understand anyone. So she just smiled. He’s from the low country of Georgia — Pin Point to be exact — and is a descendant of west African slaves who lived in the coastal communities of South Carolina, Georgia, and ...

Emotion Comes Alive

We met Bernie whose cursory description of a marriage in conflict. He was rigid both physically and emotionally as he sat in his initial session. Before I could customarily get some biographical items such as date of birth, wife’s name, address, place of work, medical information for starters, Bernie expressed how “strange and weird” he felt. I sensed a deeper meaning than merely being in my office. I sensed a disturbance percolating deep within Bernie’s psyche. He expressed a profound sense of power that he acquired to originating from his wife. Bernie had called me to schedule ...

Athenex May Be Barometer For Rebound

How our local economies bounce back in the coming months as the reopening phases continue to ramp up remains an uncertainty. Judging from the recent summerlike days, there is a strong sentiment from residents who have been stuck indoors over the last three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic to get outside and seek a return to what were once the usual things. Car and foot traffic, for the most part, appears to be on the uptick. In addition, it seems more consumers are looking to shop. Whether it is for the outdoor amenities or something personal, many are itching to purchase goods ...

Will Farming Survive A Vaccine?

Farm-to-table refers to freshly grown produce — that is, fruits and vegetables not transported from some distant time zone or even hemisphere but recently harvested on boutique acreage just outside town. The foodie media trumpet the virtues of local food sources, and their cosmopolitan audience tries to honor them when they visit farmer’s markets or read menus. But first, apologies to country people who’ve been planting their own food forever without fanfare or trend attached. There’s no shorter distance to the table than one’s own property. The coronavirus-imposed home ...

Are Dems Smart Enough To Take Yes For An Answer?

Here’s the fail-safe test for whether a political party is growing and strengthening or shrinking in size and prospects: Is that party spending its time, energy and effort seeking, recruiting and welcoming converts to its ranks, or is that party instead hunting down heretics within its ranks and, in the name of political purity, banishing them to some outer darkness? Because American politics is always a matter of addition, not subtraction, the convert-seeking and convert-welcoming party is healthier and almost always has the better prospects of winning the November general election. ...

$350K Prendergast Library Tax: Vote No

Here we go again. For a third time, the James Prendergast Library Board is attempting to raise property taxes by $350,000 by a 259 vote referendum being placed on the June 9 Jamestown School Districts School voting ballot. Now the library is forcing parts of outside towns (Ellicott, Busti and Kiantone) within the Jamestown School Districts to pay a library tax. All registered voters within the Jamestown Public School District were mailed absentee ballots on May 28. The library board tried twice previously to raise property taxes to fund the library (2005 — $560,000 and 2016 — ...