Letters: Vote ‘no’ on Meagher; ‘Raise the age’ a mistake
Selections from the May 4 edition of Kingston Times.
Voices
Letter: More respect in immigration debate, please
We all lose if we do not treat the immigrants in our communities, and one another, with the respect and trust that we all deserve.
Saugerties Times letters (5/4-10)
Topics include: Faso meets with mental health providers, 2017 town board campaign, the decline of organized labor, GOP shell game on health care, drug testing our teens, hope for addicts, keeping Saugerties beautiful, post-prom success.
Hugh Reynolds: Rapprochement for Hein and Cahill?
Like the cobra and the mongoose, these guys need each other. Put another way, what fun is politics if there’s nobody to hate?
What reshoring may mean for the Hudson Valley’s economic growth
President Donald Trump has said that his America First policies can significantly — hugely! — increase the rate of growth of America’s gross domestic product. The average annual growth pf GDP over the past decade has hovered around two per cent. Trump is sure he can increase that to four percent. In fact, he recently told Fox News that with better trade deals the United States should be able to lift it to five per cent in a few years.
Saugerties Times letters (4/27-5/3)
This week’s topics include: Faso’s choice not to hold town hall meetings, women power needed, the great health care swindle, the spirit of our laws, banning memorializing resolutions and Little League congratulations.
Ulster County’s most innovative public secondary school
The mission of the Hudson Valley Pathways Academy, a small publicly funded secondary school on Mary’s Avenue in Kingston, is to graduate students with both technical knowledge and real-world skills. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, that’s no small ambition.
Did life begin among the stars?
Finding glycine among the raven clouds of night, amidst the Milky Way that spreads across the heavens these very nights, is stunning.
Hugh Reynolds: Firefight
What politician in his or her right mind wants to take on the county’s volunteer fire establishment?
Saugerties Times letters (4/20-26)
Topics include: Faso’s troubling statements at town hall meeting, Trump’s foreign policy, don’t repeal health care law without a replacement, Saugertiesian’s foreign trip suggests need to invest in high-speed rail.