Learning to row together
To find a toxic political situation we don’t have to go down to Washington. Kingston is much closer.
Voices
Letters: Taking down the Pike Plan a bad idea
Two letter writers argue for keeping the Uptown Kingston canopies.
Viking victory
Twenty months into its Hudson Valley venture, the Norwegian Air’s business strategy at Stewart Airport appears to be increasingly successful. It is continuing to demonstrate that despite its location at an airport 65 miles north of New York City it can fill its planes for flights to and from Ireland and Scotland with paying discount passengers.
The coaching game
Forget about all the blathering by the likes of Dick Vitale about what geniuses the two coaches are who happen to be directing the fortunes of the teams he happens to be working. Really, whatever the game, whoever the coaches, Vitale’s over-the-top positive platitudes are monkey-business as usual.
Kids’ Almanac (Jan. 31-Feb. 7)
New riff on the Matter of Britain in The Kid Who Would Be King; Dragon King marionettes; Chinese New Year crafts; Help out during the amphibian migration; Groundhog Day at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum; Ice Harvest Festival.
What’s in a name?
We caught a lucky break with the clouds, and were able to see the total lunar eclipse the other week.
On the Rocks: Where the boys are
Why is it that when a large group of mammoth bones are found, a disproportionate number of them are males?
Poll: Should the canopies in Uptown Kingston be torn down?
Eight years after a problem-plagued refurbishment project, city officials are giving serious consideration to tearing down the system of porticos covering sidewalks in the Uptown business district.
Hudson Valley real estate predictions
What would one say if one had to guess about the direction of Ulster County residential real estate in 2019? My guess for the asset class would be that 2019 will be about the same as 2018 — an encouraging and positive if not quite a spectacular year.
The body electric
We all know that brains and muscles operate electrically. But almost no one seems aware that our body’s electricity has very quirky, variable characteristics.