LETTER from ANDREW STAMMEL 7-7 Split Calls For Power-Sharing, Cooperation To the Editor: Every New Year brings change to the Otsego County Board. It has been interesting reading different opinions about our recent changes. To me, the selection of a chair and new vice chair from the same party caucus does not indicate a move away from the welcome bi-partisan collegiality of the last term. Both leaders won the bi-partisan support of their peers because they have shown themselves to…
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Letter From Mary Anne Whelan Not Militia? Then You’re Out Of Luck To the Editor: Could the proponents of this silly idea please tell us what portion of the NYS ‘SAFE ACT” conflicts with the Second Amendment? Actually, I doubt they know what either the Second Amendment or the Safe Act says. Are they members of a well-regulated Militia, on which opening clause everything else in the Second Amendment depends? If not, they have no rights to the exercise of…
Letter From R. Scott Duncan Time For Sanctuary Against DMV Let’s make Otsego an “Automobile Sanctuary County.” There is just too much government interference in owning and driving a car. It costs thousands of dollars a year to keep a car moving. Don’t I have some Constitutional rights? The first step is paying for a learner’s permit. Then you have to pay someone to teach you to drive. Don’t forget to pick up the driving manual that you need so…
Letter From Paul Conway ‘Sanctuary’ Movement Demonstrates NRA Has Lost Touch With Its Roots To the Editor: The proposal to create a Second Amendment “sanctuary county” is an awful idea for a variety of reasons. The first and simplest reason is that the Second Amendment is NOT under attack. There is no likelihood it will ever be abolished. The U.S. Supreme Court and a vast majority of Americans support the right of citizens to own firearms to hunt and to…
LETTER from GREY MATTERS With ‘Green Light’ In Force, ICE Poster A Provocation To the Editor: Prominently displayed next to each of three cashier window signs at the Otsego County Department of Motor Vehicle office in Oneonta that explain how the new “Green Light” Law will be implemented in Otsego County are signs proclaiming the phone number of the ICE Tip Line. At the Cooperstown DMV office, there is an ICE Tip Line sign on the entrance door and there…
LETTER from ED LEONE Battle Of Bulge Reminds Us Of Drago, Nader’s Sacrifice To the Editor: It’s always the right time to be thankful for our veterans who have served selflessly around the world so that we at home can live in peace. The 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds me of the privations and sacrifice these magnificent soldiers faced all those years ago. I recommend Academy Award winning movie, “Patton,” to see a depiction of the…
LETTER from CONNIE KRAHAM VELEZ CVS Should Value Human Beings Instead Of Robots To the Editor: For those who have not been to the Cooperstown CVS in the last week or two, there are two new additions now. Not two new employees, but two automated check-out stations. Whoever enjoys listening to annoying robotic voices overlapping each other will be glad to possibly be able to save a few seconds so that the upper echelons of CVS management and their stockholders…
LETTER from SHEILA ROSS Could ‘Citizen Of Year’ Be County Administrator? To the Editor: Where will you find a person who would know all about all 24 departments in the Otsego County system? The department heads will be giving the manager the information that he or she needs. The department heads know the laws, state mandates and the ins and outs that apply to their departments. We have a county treasurer and deputy that do a great job with the…
LETTER from SCOTT DUNCAN To Preserve Our Earth, Live By Nature’s Rules To the Editor: So the fracking industry comes into town and uses a lot of clean water that then becomes unusable, tears up and down the roads with trucks, and drills for the gas. Then pipes it out of the county and sells it to? … and this will benefit the poor people, how? Poor people don’t always own the land. Mike Zagata’s description of fracking left out…
LETTER from BOB EKLUND Praise For Fracking? Let’s Call In Fossil-Fuel Fiction To the Editor: Normally, I would not respond to such pithy paeans of praise to the poison profits of pipelines as recently described by Mr. Zagata (Nov. 28-29) in this space. However, since my name and likeness, along with friend and fellow environmental activist Nicole Dillingham, were used as poster people for the piece, I feel I must. First I must admit surprise at Zagata’s entry into fossil-fuel…
