Kingston Times letters: I-587 Roundabout, Central Hudson gas regulating station
From the Oct. 12 issue.
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Saugerties Times letters (10/12-19)
Topics include: The local elections, Saugerties finances not so bad, town not paying for electric car charging station, a community food effort, Trump’s job-killing tax plan, Shout Out Saugerties launches, and more.
Hugh Reynolds: The mother’s milk of politics
Plenty of money circulating in the 19th congressional district ahead of 2018 race, but not from outside; making sense of a surprisingly low bid for the new family court; some other assorted odds and ends.
A better way to tax carbon
If a carbon tax of $40 a ton were levied, and every red cent of it turned over directly to every American with a valid Social Security number, the resulting incentive to lower carbon emissions would probably spur more clever efforts by power companies to green the grid than even the most stringent EPA regulations.
The politics of tax reform
Habitual liars and serial exaggerators like Donald Trump generally don’t make the best spokespersons for their causes. That doesn’t mean, however, that everything that they say or believe is a lie.
Saugerties Times letters to the editor (10/5-10/11)
Topics include: Saugerties most fiscally stressed town in county due to Democrats, register to vote, we deserve a better county legislature.
Tacky alt-right intrusion
A couple of weeks ago, somebody started duct-taping creepy white supremacist flyers over my wife’s campaign signs. “You will not replace us,” the flyers blared, over a photo of a white couple with a baby.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “What are you afraid of?”
Making arrangements for what happens to one’s body after death is difficult, but, once complete, the feeling is liberating.
Methane: Blue flames and the green planet
When the universe’s first- and fourth-most-abundant elements combine, the result is often a gas that, surprisingly, has recently cleaned up our air. It’s methane. Most folks call it natural gas. It’s also known as marsh gas and swamp gas, since it’s released by decomposing plants.
The Eagle’s View: Saugerties election rundown
A spurned candidate, cross-endorsements, appointment speculation… We’re five weeks away from the election and things are finally coming into focus in the races for town supervisor and town board.