Syria strike hasn’t helped Trump so far
“Instead of a rally-‘round-the-flag effect, Americans are sill looking for president Trump to provide leadership and more careful planning to arrive at sound policies,” pollster Lee Miringoff said.
Voices
Is distance dead?
It’s an exciting but disconcertingly unsettled time here in the hinterlands between the vast and troubled rust belt to our north and west and the bustling problem-plagued metropolis to the south. All eyes are glued to the screen watching the soap opera that national politics, where one person’s narcissistic claptrap is another’s revealed wisdom. What is a poor soul to do?
Poll: Free SUNY tuition for qualifying students starting this fall
Should students from families that make less than six figures have their tuition paid for?
Saugerties Times letters (4/6-13)
Topics include: Congress sides with corporations on Internet privacy, raise the age of criminal responsibility, speed limit on 9W should be lowered; thank you Jim Bruno, the no-nukes dream, memorializing resolutions serve important function; Faso insincere about climate
Kingston Times letters: Affirm American values; Memorialize on
Selections from the April 6 issue of Kingston Times.
Kingston After Dark: Cosmic clamor
InAeona is finally touching down on Earth once again to visit Kingston on Thursday, April 20 at BSP as support for critical proggy post-metal darlings Junius (whom Rolling Stone once famously called “a perfect hybrid of Neurosis and the Smiths.”)
Hugh Reynolds: Did Mott mess it up?
Judicial discretion can take some curious turns. I wasn’t surprised when state Supreme Court Judge Richard Mott opted for the low-hanging fruit in the case of Elliott Auerbach versus Michael Hein and the Ulster County Legislature.
Harvey G. Eastman: College founder, mayor and assemblyman who cured ‘the sickly city’ and got the railroad bridge built
One newspaper of the time described thriving but cholera-ridden Poughkeepsie as, “A fine place to live, with fine schools and churches and railroad accommodations, well governed but oh, how sickly.”
Letter: Memorializing resolutions serve important function
Far from being a waste of time, resolutions by the a county legislature express a collective will more likely to be noticed by higher levels of government than statements by a single voter or group.
A Kingston springtime
This is not your father’s real-estate market.