The Hudson Valley must keep hope alive for Net Neutrality
We may have lost the battle, let’s win the war.
Voices
Kingston After Dark: Globelamp illuminates
Globelamp (aka Elizabeth Gomez aka Elizabeth Le Fay) is in the Woodstock-Kingston area to record the follow up to 2016’s The Orange Glow, released on Wichita Records, at Bohemesphere Studios in Saugerties. ‘I’d never been to Upstate New York,” she says. “I like it here. It reminds me of the Taylor Swift album Red.’
Parallel banking universes
Two announcements last week in the Ulster County banking community brought the latest local developments in the fierce struggle between America’s national banks and its community banks. Rondout Savings Bank announced a new CEO and president, Cheryl Bowers, the first woman to hold the position in the local bank’s 150-year history. And Bank of America announced it would be closing its Woodstock branch next April.
Saugerties Times letters (12/14-20)
Topics include: Doing the math on local homeless and foreclosures, Holiday in the Village, Faso and the tax bill, only Democrats are seeing consequences of sexual misconduct, Hudson Valley honor flights for vets.
Hugh Reynolds: Thoughts on budgets
When government officials routinely appropriate rather large sums to balance their budgets, it seems to me the books weren’t really balanced in the first place. It’s like a floating crap game, with the public putting up the stakes.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Nothing But Net(i Pot)
Cough. Blow nose. Cancel plans. Rinse and repeat.
Vote where your heart is
There’s a campaign to urge second-home owners to register Upstate in the hopes of increasing Democratic turnout. These are dark times, and there is much at stake nationally. But local politics are no less important. And it is ludicrous to suppose that the only way to build a solid platform for better representation in NY-19 is to import voters from more left-leaning areas to drown out the voices of full-time residents.
Letter: Tuition-free college program should be expanded to cover housing and food
New York State’s Excelsior Scholarship fails to cover the majority of college costs, which come from room and board. According to NYPIRG, 48 percent of students experience some type of housing insecurity and 64 percent were food insecure. The numbers are higher among students of color.
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Radio Kingston recently purchased a building on Broadway and discussed plan before an enthusiastic crowd at Kingston Library. The station is promising 24 hours of hyperlocal content, with funding from a non-profit headed by Warren Buffet’s son.
Hugh Reynolds: Chris Gibson’s American exceptionalism
In Rally Point, his third book, former Congressman Chris Gibson uses his own life journey as an Army combat commander, three-term Republican congressman and college professor as a template to return the country to its founding values, “under God,” and future prosperity.