Commentary: Charlottesville in Ulster County
As we reflect on the recent events in Charlottesville, we need search no further than our own backyard to find signs of the same, ugly white supremacy.
Voices
Make Women’s Equality Day a national holiday
The 19th Amendment was passed August 26, 1920. That date should be observed.
Hugh Reynolds: Congressional casting call
Prediction: Half of the eight Democratic candidates will drop out by the end of the year.
The Stockade economy is still a work in progress
At least part of the Stockade bubble is being fueled by the conviction that young urban professionals with good incomes and digital skills will in particular find the Stockade irresistible. The jury is still out on that one.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Liver Mets
Liver mets. I am not shocked by this new development; it’s what Stage IV breast cancer does: It eventually spreads to lungs, liver and/or brain.
Hugh Reynolds: Facing the music
It’s probably not a good thing when a freshman congressman gets huge headlines after announcing his first town hall meeting with his constituents eight months into his term.
Charlottesville comes home
The statues are in the south, but this isn’t just a question for southerners. Up here — 500 miles north of Appomattox, and more than 150 years after a Virginia farmer wrote that he’d rather “endure all the horrors of civil war than to see the dusky sons of Ham leading the fair daughters of the South to the altar” — Confederate flags wave from porches and pickup trucks.
Editorial: The real American way
Pardon my French, but I have had enough of this Confederate bulls–t. Americans are exceptional in many ways, one of
A taxing predicament
When the New York State comptroller’s office recently tallied up local sales-tax revenues at the halfway mark in the 2017 calendar year, it turned out that Ulster County government was up significantly higher than it had predicted.
Kingston After Dark: American beauty
Dear God, I really wish Michelle Obama, Jamie Clayton or John Leguizamo was president right now. As we reel from