COLUMN Help On Way For Small-Forest Owners By MIKE ZAGATA • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal New York’s 19 million acres of forests provide wood-fiber for the state’s $16 billion wood products industry – it’s larger than Maine’s, but we don’t often think of New York as being a leader in wood products. Our forests also provide habitats for wildlife, clean air, clean water, Carbon sequestration and aesthetic enjoyment. In fact, interest in wildlife is the number one reason…
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COLUMN • MONEY MATTERS Let’s Build Great Future On Great Past By TOM MORGAN • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Was America ever great? Former Attorney General Eric Holder poses the question. “Exactly when did you think America was great?” He competes with Governor Cuomo. Cuomo told us “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” Let us look at that question. But first, let us admit these politicians are simply trying to dilute…
COLUMN ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta In my column of Aug. 9-10, 2018, I suggested that Otsego County might follow the example of Tompkins County and set up an Energy Task Force. I had little expectation that anything would come of it, but, thanks to a bipartisan effort led by county Representatives Michelle Farwell and Meg Kennedy, that Task Force is now a reality. The Task Force will have to face the…
COLUMN What Are Fossil Fuels? What Are Renewables? By MIKE ZAGATA • for Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Based upon what I read in our papers, there seems to be a lack of information and/or understanding about fossil fuels and the so-called “renewables.” This might be a good time to attempt to get all of us on the same page. The descriptive term “fossil fuels” includes coal, oil and natural gas – the energy sources that were formed millions…
COLUMN Donate! 25 Years Ago Kidney Saved My Life By STEVE BIERITZ • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta Every month of April, we celebrate National Donate Life Month. On April 17, I will celebrate the 25th year of my very successful kidney transplant. After battling the disease that caused a loss of kidney function over time, my energy level and quality of life were at a low point. That was truly a donation that changed my life and was…
COLUMN Press Ahead With Railyards, Or Oneonta, DRI In Doubt Editor’s Note: This is a comment on the DGEIS on the redevelopment of Oneonta’s D&H railyards, after the plan was pummeled at a March 5 public hearing at Foothills. Al Colone is founding president of Oneonta’s former National Soccer Hall of Fame. By AL COLONE • for Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Dear Mayor Herzig and Common Council members: The 270 acres of the former D&H railyards are the…
SAVING OUR PLANET Is Nuclear Power Answer After All? Editor’s Note: Len Carson, the former county rep from Oneonta and DC Marketing president, circulated a video of Michael Shellenberger’s 2016 Ted Talk, “How Fear of Nuclear Power is Hurting the Environment,” to Citizens Voice, the local businesspeople’s group, for discussion at its Wednesday, March 13, meeting. Shellenberger was one of Time magazine’s 2008 “Heroes of the Environment,” but in 2015 helped found Environmental Progress, seeking to prevent California’s closure of…
IN APPRECIATION Joe Campbell – A Class Act I came to know Joe while teaching and coaching at Oneonta High School. He was my assistant coach for the JV football team and helped us go undefeated for four straight years. Joe was a gentle person who cared deeply about his athletes. He was a fitness advocate and, believe me, our athletes were fit. They looked forward to our games as they were “easier” than practice. In the four years we…
Elephant In The Room Undergirds Discourse Dismiss Smokescreen Hype About Dubious New Jobs In last week’s editorial in this newspaper, Oneonta Mayor Herzig is quoted as saying: “We should not let those who are economically secure, by comparison, tell those who need jobs they can’t have them.” The mayor was reacting to the March 5 hearing he moderated at the Foothills in Oneonta, where a long series of speakers pushed back almost unanimously against the gas-expansion project proposed by the…
from Nicholas Cunningham Whom Do We Trust? To the Editor: Re Mike Zagata’s March 14 remarks about socialism, the National Debt, and energy: • Our health, education and welfare can be entrusted to our legislatures and executives whom we vote in or out. Or they can be run by big corporations over which we have almost no control. • Social security, our public schools and Medicare may be socialistic, but whatever we call them, they serve us pretty well. •…