Editorial, August 10, 2018 The Arithmetic Is Inexorable: 2/3rds City, 1/3rd Town Fire District. Make The Deal Judges generally are loath to get involved in situations that should be resolved through the political process. But once in a while their hand is forced. Such seems to be the case shaping up in the now years-long standoff between Oneonta City Hall and the Town of Oneonta Board of Fire Commissioners over what the town should pay to be covered by professional…
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Editorial, August 3, 2018 America – And Cooperstown – Fearing Fear Itself One of the many delights in getting older is you realize some things aren’t going to be resolved in your lifetime. If you’re 65-and-holding, you can relax. American paranoia and its companion, the National Security State, won’t be dissipated tomorrow, if it can ever. And, year to year, we witness the ever-fuller flowering of these truly abhorrent aspects of modern American life during the Hall of Fame’s Induction…
Editorial, July 27, 2018 Do We Divert XNG Trucks Now – Or After First Fatality? On the surface, the argument makes sense, (sort of). Boston-based Xpress Natural Gas’ trucks, carrying fuel from fracking fields in Northeastern Pennsylvania across Otsego County to the Iroquois Pipeline near Little Falls, are legal carriers and should be allow to use New York State roads just like any other legal carrier. After all, what’s next? Should we then ban oil tankers? Suburban Propane delivery trucks?…
Editorial, July 20, 2018 AD The Voice’s Rap Career Emerges As Campaign’s First Hot Potato Get ready, folks. We’re going to be hearing a lot of hip-hop music between now and Nov. 6. It was generally known during the just-completed primary campaign in our 19th Congressional District that the victor, Antonio Delgado, had been involved in a rap venture in Los Angeles more than a decade ago, but details were fuzzy. And they didn’t really matter: Chances were even or…
Editorial, July 13, 2018 Let Young Entrepreneur Bring Nick’s Diner Back To Life Here’s the choice: The nearly complete restoration of Oneonta’s historic Nick’s Diner can go forward, with better than even chances it will succeed. Or, almost complete, it can be allowed to remain vacant, eventually deteriorating to the point it will be razed or removed. It is hoped it will be in much better hands this time around. A failure to keep track of finances and track expenditure…
Editorial, July 6, 2018 Homer Osterhoudt, Citizen A Life Of Service, Leadership, Joy Is An Example To Us All Interviewed as his 100th birthday last January, Homer Osterhoudt remained full of life and curiosity, enthusiastically reporting deer peering in the window of his Woodside Hall room most evenings. His back, which had carried Cooperstown’s mail on a 10-mile route daily for many of his 34 years at the Cooperstown post office, had begun to bend, but he was as warm…
Editorial, June 29, 2018 Focus Indictments Put All Nursing-Home Operators On Notice Now we know, lives indeed may be at stake. Two top executives of Focus Ventures have been arrested on eight counts involving two residents of the county’s former nursing home, Otsego Manor. (The county sold the Manor to Focus in January 2014, for $18.5 million, and Centers Health Care bought it from Focus in January for an undisclosed sum.) Five of the counts are “endangering the welfare of…
Editorial, June 22, 2018 In 40 Visits, Brian Flynn Earns Democrats’ Support If for nothing more than the knowledge he’s gained about Otsego County and its issues in 40-some visits over the past year, Brian Flynn is the logical candidate for local Democrats to support in the party’s 19th Congressional District primary Tuesday, June 26. The polls will be open from noon to 9 p.m. Absent someone actually from Otsego County – Cooperstown’s Erin Collier was an attractive entry, but…
Editorial, June 15, 2018 ISN’T IT TIME FOR A CHANGE? Elect Len Carson County Sheriff. Able, Proven Public Servant Would Change Conversation When you think about it, with the amount of baggage both Republican and Democratic designees for county sheriff are carrying, 2018 would be a great opportunity for a third person to run as an independent. You may have a favorite candidate of your own, but how about someone like Len Carson, the Oneonta Republican who narrowly lost reelection…
Editorial, June 8, 2018 Amy Schumer Proves It Cooperstown-Oneonta Market CAN Support Top Acts. Study Should Underscore That Amy Schumer’s almost-instantaneous sellout performance Tuesday, May 29, at Oneonta’s Foothills Performance Arts Center proves it: There is a demand for top-rated entertainment in Otsego County. The remaining question: What’s the price point? As Schumer proved, $20 – a true bargain – is fine. So is probably $30. Maybe $40. Certainly, at $50 a seat there will probably be some audience erosion,…