Column Mother Steadfastly ‘True North’ I’ve just spent an hour upstairs in, so far, a fruitless search. The search was for an object about as round as a half dollar, and it weighs not much more. Olive drab, its metal case has a cracked glass face. Inside it, a needle trembles on a center post. The needle, as it has for over a century, points true north. You can’t fool that needle by turning the case so that the printed…
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Column Reconsidering Impeachment This writer was happy to see the Democrats initiate a formal investigation into impeaching President Trump. Impeachment is a legitimate Constitutional mechanism to address pressing issues of conduct in office, something we desperately need. Elections are our normal mechanism for sorting out political differences, but there is no way in the long periods between elections to resolve serious tensions like those we have now. In the meantime, we get an endless stream of experts, panelists, commentators and…
Column THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Revisiting Clinton Playbook Think back to the days of the Clinton Presidency and the words “I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman.” Stains on her dress would seem to indicate otherwise – but it was her fault because she was a woman. Then Hillary runs for the presidency and she and the DNC hire a foreign agent to work with the Russians to dig up dirt on her opponent – Donald…
Column It’s No Fun Jousting With Another Cuomo It’s fun to watch Andrew Cuomo. He knows that his father lost his try for a fourth term in office. To be fair, he didn’t lose by a lot and it was a very Republican year. On the other hand, Andrew has to worry that people can get tired of having the same guy in office year after year. So, Andrew is on the warpath. I have been speaking with him a…
Column ‘We Were Told, Don’t Worry… ‘…And Then, We Were In Legal Jeopardy,’ Supervisor Declares Editor’s Note: Richfield Town Supervisor Paul Palumbo read this assessment of the town’s proposed comprehensive plan and zoning code at a public hearing Monday, Sept. 23. Palumbo and Town Board member Fred Eckler want to delay approval; Town Board members Larry Frigault, Rex Seamon and Kane Seamon, want to vote at 7 p.m. next Monday in a meeting in the school cafeteria. By PAUL PALUMBO…
Column MONEY TALKS America, Conceived In Slavery? Bunk! By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com And you thought America was “conceived in liberty”? That is what Abraham Lincoln suggested. Well I’m here to tellya that is bunk. This country was conceived in wholesale medical cruelty. And medical malfeasance. So there! Doctors of the 1700s treated illnesses by blood-letting. Got a pain? Slash a vein. Dysentery? Try an artery. Migraines? Let us drill holes in your skull. To allow evil spirits…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Poverty? Don’t Blame The Rich, But Ourselves Talk about getting things backwards and exposing your political bias at the same time, while totally ignoring the facts – and you’ve identified Oneonta’s mayor, as reflected in a column he writes elsewhere. We have poverty because of folks like him who deny reality when it comes to renewables vs. fossil fuels, who even fight renewables like solar and who do everything they can to keep industry…
COLUMN IN TIME OF TRUMP, DiPERNA ASKED: ‘How Did American Stray So Far From Its Ideals?’ Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna, the author and global strategic environmental policy adviser who ran for Congress in 1992 for the 23rd District, which then included Otsego County, has a home in Cooperstown. This is an excerpt from her latest book, “Travels in the Time of Trump.” DiPerna will be giving a book talk at 2 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Green Toad…
Column FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The ORIGINATING Sin By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’ve been driven out of the house to the peaceful shade of the front porch by television news. The programs are crammed with vitriolic volleys between this faction and that, one candidate and another. Pushing the mute button wouldn’t quell the stridence. It would still be there in the images – puffed up pols and preachers and pundits, each mouthing their one and only truth. There’s…
COLUMN WHERE NATURE SMILES Year After Moving To Ohio, Reflections On Cooperstown By CATHE ELLSWORTH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It was a year ago last week that we left our home of 36 years in Cooperstown to move to a new home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. We left behind the house which the he-we’s grandparents built for $5,000 in 1912. Though the years, four generations of the Ellsworth family lived at 105 Pioneer St. But now the family has indeed…
