Saugerties Times letters (3/9-15)
Selections from the March 9 edition of Saugerties Times, including thoughts on the Saugerties town budget and national health insurance reform.
Voices
Kingston After Dark: Four guns, one love
It’s hard to believe the area’s finest Outlaw Americana band 4 Gun Ridge is already on its third album.
Letter: Saugerties pool report premature; community involvement sought
Recent reporting gives the impression that we have a design and estimated price tag for a facility. This is not the case.
Letter: Zero Place development going all out for New Paltz
The developer explains changes made to the proposed building on Rt. 32 in the village, including public amenities, pedestrian/bike safety, accessibility, and a reduction in the building’s size.
The greatest aurorae
A good aurora is the second-best spectacle the human eye can ever see. But what constitutes a major display?
Hugh Reynolds: Mischief in numbers
Last November, about midway through the annual county budget adoption process, Ulster County comptroller Elliott Auerbach alerted legislature chairman Ken Ronk to what some might have considered a startling development.
How we should compete
Everyone knows places like NYC and San Francisco are doing well, but a recent analysis concluded that all the income gains are eaten up by cost of living.
The Dead Beat: Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest who tried to reconcile science and religion
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is buried in a small cemetery at the Culinary Institute in Poughkeepsie. “It is doubtful,” Flannery O’Connor wrote, “if any Christian of this century can be fully aware of his religion until he has seen it in the cosmic light which Teilhard has cast upon it.”
Letter: Politicians should attend, not duck, town halls
Town halls, mainstays of constituent /representative dialog, have been being abandoned by many who claim the outpouring of citizen concern is “disruptive” or “unproductive.” Boisterous as some may become, the skilled and open politician will allow for intensity of expression, acknowledge concerns, engage the crowd thus create dialog, not just promote dogma.
Kingston Times letters: Letters: A defense of kiosks, Faso’s no-show
Selections from the March 2 Kingston Times letters to the editor section.