WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Praising Justice Ginsburg …With One Reservation We mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, she taught at both Rutgers and Columbia, and became Columbia’s first tenured female professor. She was director of the Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU during the 1970s, and argued six important cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court, winning five of them. President Jimmy Carter appointed her to…
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LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Tragedy Proves COVID No Hoax I graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1978. Adeline Fagan graduated from the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine in 2019. She started a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology in Houston. She died from COVID-19 Saturday, Sept. 19, age 28. She most likely became infected working a shift in her hospital’s emergency room in the late spring. From what I’ve read,…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Otsego County By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One summer, while visiting Cooperstown, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg had a request for her friend, Kay Pierro. “She wanted to go waterskiing!” Pierro said. “So I asked around for a friend who had a boat to take her on, but (federal marshals) needed to follow in a second boat, so I had to ask around for another. “She tried so hard to get up, but…
GUEST COLUMN Man Socks Rooster Last late fall, I was getting ready to box up my chickens and take them to Knight’s auction in West Winfield so that we would be free to spend some time in sunny Florida. My neighbor, Jim, who lives across the road, surprised me when he offered to keep my birds in his coop for the winter. “Why would you want to do that?” I asked. “Body heat,” was Jim’s answer. “The more chickens in…
ENOUGH: SUNY-O Infections Irk Chancellor By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – ‘Enough!” As photos of another off-campus SUNY Oneonta party made the rounds on social media, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras issued that one-word press release. Meanwhile, a 79-year-old has died following a bout with COVID-19, with another hospitalized over the weekend. Neither the death – the seventh in the county since March – nor the hospitalization were related to the SUNY outbreak. “(The deceased) had been on…
LETTER from JIM FRANCIS Stone Slab Steps In Our Winters? To the Editor: Have those designers on the new Huntington Park plan ever spent a winter in Oneonta? The slab steps aren’t really shovelable, or passable. They’ll cut down many trees for sledding, which is currently available? And I sure wouldn’t send my kid down that slide with rocks on both sides. But, it’s not like I’m looking for a design award. JIM FRANCIS Oneonta…
GUEST COLUMN More Than Ever, People Need Guns “On every question of construction (of the Constitution), let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” Thomas Jefferson • Clearly among too many politicians, arrogant academia, and New York State itself, there is an…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Robbins Like GOP Of Yesteryear To the Editor: The last time I wrote a letter supporting a Republican was for Gov. Jeb Bush, which was published as a guest editorial in the Manchester Union Leader during the primaries. What a better world it would be if a capable guy like Jeb had won. Lordy. I am not a resident of New York State so I can’t vote here, but I do live here much of the…
1,000 AXES TO GRIND Jim Mayne’s Massive Collection Showcased At Edmeston Museum By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EDMESTON – For years, Jim Mayne had coveted the Leonard Hammer, an 1848 tool patented by Edmeston farmer Leonard Powers. It was only the second such patent issued in the United States. “I was visiting a friend who had it, and I asked if I could buy it off him,” said Mayne, interviewed Saturday, Sept. 19, amid a collection of many…
SQSPCA Declares War On ‘Puppy Mills’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Brian Shapiro, state director of the Humane Society of the United States, has a strict warning for anyone who might be thinking about buying from a puppy mill. “Underneath the cuteness, there is cruelty,” he said. Shapiro was on hand for the Susquehanna SPCA’s announcement of the PAWS – Puppy Mill Awareness With Shelters – initiative, which seeks to educate people about the harm that…
