IN APPRECIATION • Joe Campbell Sr. Of Many Oneonta Greats, Joe Left A Big Footprint Editor’s Note: “Big Chuck” D’Imperio, radio personality and author, assess Joe Campbell’s impact on Oneonta at the “Voice of Oneonta’s” memorial service Saturday. This is an excerpt. By CHUCK D’IMPERIO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com When I joined WDOS in 1989 I was a fairly young guy, not even 40-years-old yet. And the station was filled with young people, from sales to administrative to on-air and…
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COLUMN THE VIEW FROM FLY CREEK Do We Give More Than We Take, And Does It Matter? By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In my last column, I discussed “Sustainable Living” – one of the three principles of Sustainable Otsego. Today I want to consider the second principle, “Economic Independence.” I’ll take up the last principle, “Home Rule,” in a later column. The phrase “economic independence” is bandied about these days by politicians and pundits alike. But what would…
COLUMN VIEW FROM ALBANY No ‘Green Light’ Law As Loose As This One By State Sen. JIM SEWARD, R-Milford • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – While the 2019 state legislative session concluded several weeks ago, discussion continues to swirl around one of the more controversial new measures approved this year – the so-called “Green Light” law. he new law, which formally takes effect on Dec. 14, 2019, would permit illegal/undocumented immigrants to apply for standard driver’s licenses using forms of…
COLUMN FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE To Sell, First, Sell Yourself By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Many years ago, when Earth was still cooling, I was a young professor teaching rhetoric. That study had been greatly advanced by Aristotle. He was not long dead then, so the topic was still fresh. Aristotle said that rhetoric is “the art of effective, persuasive speech.” The crassest form is used by the used-car salesman who scuttles across the lot with wide…
COLUMN VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT The Cost Of A Free College Tuition By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com You might read the headline and ask, “How can something that is free have a cost. First of all, nothing is really free. That includes the free lunches at school, the free grants the City of Oneonta receives from time to time to pay consultants or deploy flower pots, and free college education. A public school education is free to the…
COLUMN VIEW FROM LYON America Invades France To Cheer Women’s Team Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Bill Waller, whose son Scott played for CCS, took Scott’s daughter – and aspiring soccer player – Kira to see World Cup play in France. By BILL WALLER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LYON, France – “USA, USA, USA.” Over 30,000, more than half of an enormous new Lyon, France Olympic soccer stadium’s crowd are screaming their support for the U.S. Women’s soccer team. Flags waving everywhere, chants…
‘GREEN LIGHT’ POSITION PAPER Law, Precedent Prohibit Giving Driver’s Licenses To People Here Illegally Editor’s Note: Saratoga County Clerk Craig Hayner developed this position paper on the state’s new “Green Light” law before asking President Trump to intervene and ensure it doesn’t require New York State’s county clerks to violate their oath of office. By CRAIG HAYNER • Saratoga County Clerk The ability of states to regulate who drives on their roadways dates back to the Model T with the…
THE VIEW FROM FLY CREEK Only Grassroot Activists Can Save Our Planet By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Sustainable Otsego has been both a social network and political action committee since its founding in 2007. Over that time, it has advanced three principles around which local life could be organized: Sustainable Living. Economic Independence, and Home Rule. Today let me address Sustainable Living; I’ll take up the other two in later columns. Sustainable Living turns out to be a…
FROM WAR ON POVERTY’S FRONT LINES Participate In Census – Or Lose Clout By DAN MASKIN • Opportunities For Otsego CEO As mandated by the Constitution, the United States conducts a decennial census. This once-every-10-year count of the population – it is coming up in April 2020 – shapes the future of our communities and helps ensure political power is fairly allocated among the states and at the local level. Some communities, like those with higher rates of low-income households…
COLUMN Fair Practices Act May Force Farms Out Of Business By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Earlier this year the New York City-centric state Senate leadership, for political reasons, blocked Amazon and 25,000 jobs from coming to our state. Now, in the closing hours of the 2019 legislative session, the same group of “leaders” are killing off existing jobs by targeting our state’s number one industry – agriculture. To be clear, when New York was announced as…