Roughly 1,000 people protested outside Republican congressman John Faso’s Kinderhook office and home last Saturday. If the mood that had driven the crowd to the congressman’s doors was grim, the protest itself was a peaceful, even buoyant affair.
Sharpe’s approach to intelligence-gathering was praised by the CIA more than a century after his death. One writer said if it had been employed pre-911, that attack may never have happened. What might have been…
Those critical of refugee resettlement often view it as being undertaken by government and elite/outside groups, using resources that ought to be directed toward local people who need help (especially veterans), with no weight given to community opinion.
Against the backdrop of a presidential contest whose victor has proposed banning immigration from Muslim countries, a plan to resettle approximately 80 refugees throughout the Hudson Valley has drawn intense interest.
As incongruous as it may seem, the meatball and the CIA have found common ground within the Institute’s curriculum. CIA, say hello to Meatball City, the new student-designed restaurant.
The Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston is no ordinary place; it’s one of the country’s earliest bastions of democracy
We all die, of course. But some of us die far from home. Some of us die lost, without the memory of friends or family. Some of us die in alleyways or emergency rooms. Some die face-down in drainage ditches or under frozen sheets of broken cardboard boxes. Some of us, in other words, die broke, alone, forgotten. These are the people whose bodies have for thousands of years filled what are most commonly called “potter’s fields.”
It’s a simple, and, I contend, the most revealing question that a moviegoer can ask of him or herself. It has very little to do with popularity or publicly accepted “greatness.”
On the recent occasion of Bruce McKinney’s seventieth birthday, he reversed the usual gift-giving process. Instead of receiving gifts, he’s providing some: a $150,000 donation to four of the community’s signature institutions.
You can find her work hanging in the homes of some of the world’s greatest artists and on the refrigerator