Kingston Times letters (1/18-24)
Cuomo’s frivolous lawsuit over property tax deduction; a response to the mayor’s state of the city address.
Voices
Search for the deep state
If the United States is indeed a deep state, “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level
Hugh Reynolds: They’ve been workin’ on the rail trail
Contractors began ripping up 11.5 miles of county-owned U&D tracks at the Ashokan Reservoir last week to create a rail trail. Meanwhile, the rail operation at the eastern (Kingston) end of the tracks reported just over 24,000 riders on its Polar Express run from Kingston Plaza to West Hurley last November and December.
The Eagle’s View: Turnout fueled Democrat town-board sweep in Saugerties
Saugerties Republicans have a lot to worry about.
Why did the Spanish flu kill so many people?
The 1918 pandemic killed as many people in one year as the Black Death claimed in a century. But it generated surprisingly few headlines at the time. The pandemic’s casualties blurred together in the public mind with those who never returned from the great European bloodbath, which perhaps explains why Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writing best-selling novels in the years immediately following the Spanish flu pandemic, never mentioned the disease even once. Moreover, the pandemic lacked a punchy name.
Wanna make a deal?
With places like Ulster County happy to add one job at a time in building a more prosperous, forward-looking labor force, the remaining 20 urban competitors for Amazon’s second world corporate headquarters (HQ2) are playing an entirely different game.
Swap shop’s closure is Old Kingston’s swan song
Old Kingston is officially dead. After 99 years of buying, selling and swapping, Sam’s Surplus Store in Uptown Kingston is closing their doors.
Rupco’s Kevin O’Connor is a man with a mission
Under O’Connor, the Ulster County-based affordable housing non-profit has quadrupled its workforce and expanded into neighboring counties.
When news breaks
Two senseless accidents claimed the lives of local men in the last several weeks. There’s no one to blame, no one to rage at. Unless you count the local paper, which is taking ferocious heat all over town for publishing a Facebook post about one of the deaths on Friday morning, just a couple of hours after it happened, before all family members could be informed.
Kingston Times Letters: America’s soul; more about the airport
Selections from the Jan. 11 print edition.