In the president’s mind, the IRS vanishes and we all enjoy the same privileges as Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos (aka the New American Oligarchs) because we won’t have to pay taxes! T…
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If you are following news reports from a variety of media sources—not just those which echo your own perspectives and beliefs—then you have been witness to violence and destruction of property not limited to any one side of the political aisle.…
Do not be misled: Trump just raised your taxes. It’s ugly. The Trump Tariff Tax is probably the largest in U.S. history. And we will all pay in higher costs for groceries, cars, homes, plumbing parts, kids’ toys, healthcare. You name it.…
A mob is a bone-chilling sight
With looting and burning all night...…
Trump’s actions are those of a dictator. Checks and balances and due process are suspended. Resources distributed by Congress are threatened and confiscated. Free speech is suppressed.…
The first thing to know is that cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, with more than 4.5 trillion discarded annually across the globe. The second thing to know is that cigarette butts do not biodegrade and they are not recyclable.…
Hitler stoked economic anger by scapegoating groups like communists, fascists and Jews. Similarly, Trump has targeted immigrants, transgender individuals, DEI, liberals, and essentially anyone who opposes him.…
135 YEARS AGO: Escape from jail—The following were three of the four prisoners who were in the Otsego County Jail—Charles Junius, Pittsfield, charged with robbery; Ed Pratt, Otego, indicted for burglary; Wm. Manning, Richfield, indicted for burglary and larceny. They were seen in their quarters between nine and ten o’clock Monday night. About three o’clock the next morning, it is thought, they took “French Leave.” The Negro Junius went as far as Westville, where he “tuckered out,” and on making…
135 YEARS AGO: The Local News: The Kniskern boy, sentenced to the Rochester Industrial School for theft, escaped from the custody of officer Butts while on his way to that place. The lad jumped from a train running at the rate of forty miles an hour. No clue yet to his whereabouts.
Many of the pupils of the Normal School are boarding themselves on the club plan. Rooms are hired, usually for four, and arrangements made with the landlady to do…
Tennis is ideally orchestrated to keep your heart healthy. The high-intensity intervals of activity elevate your heart rate, enhance blood flow and strengthen cardiovascular health. Just three hours on the court each week could reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 56 percent, and the risk of death from all causes by 47 percent. …