It is time for journalists to recognize and report the consequences and contribution of the Obama administration to the rise and continued barbaric acts of radical Islamic terrorists.
As history buff, I was fascinated by the evolution from the “Town Driving Park,” the work done through the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the donations by the Cantine and Knaust families to the modern complex we have today.
Blame the tourists, blame the neighbors, blame society. For all of her crimes, the only one not to blame for Miss Ulster County #332’s death was the bear herself.
The good news for Ulster County government is that the current squabble over the location of a fire training facility will probably end happily. A year or two from now, beaming officials and fire chiefs will be cutting a ribbon at a relatively isolated location. But not, I predict, on Cottekill Road, the county’s first choice, but near the residences of visibly surprised owners.
Some are pure fun. They’re fun either because they sound intriguing, or else denote a little-known phenomenon that deserves wider recognition.
Worth putting on your radar: Butchers Blind and The Sweet Clementines June 10 at The Anchor.
It happens every Memorial Day, and this year will be no exception. Some of the people driving up from the New York City metropolitan area during the long weekend won’t want to go back.
The Catskill Mountains are crisscrossed with political and cultural lines that meander across the landscape like so many invisible trout streams, carving the landscape into more tame and manageable pieces. The result of all this slicing and dicing is that little attention gets paid to the Catskills as a whole, either by its own residents or by the larger powers that be.
While it’s way too simplistic to blame the drugstores for this epidemic alone, they make a lot of money in our towns on prescriptions. It would have been nice of them to proactively intensify their good corporate citizenship and volunteer to do this, but they haven’t.
An amendment to the Republican health care touted by U.S. Rep John Faso as saving taxpayers through Medicaid reforms could trigger another round of sales tax battles as the state seeks a new source of local dollars to plug the hole in its budget. Make no mistake: The stakes are huge.