Kingston After Dark: Scott Grower gets personal
There is something empowering about not only facing mortality but also coming into yourself.
Voices
Hugh Reynolds: Speak for yourself, John
Newly minted U.S. Rep. John Faso of Kinderhook works the chamber-of-commerce breakfast crowd like a campaigning politician. Which of course, he is.
Perfect temperature: This is when it matters
Two of the nation’s top climate scientists told me that our region should see its greatest anthropogenic changes during winter nights. These are statistically the year’s coldest few weeks, with a normal high around freezing and normal nightly low around 13 degrees.
What price water in New Paltz?
New Paltz Village Mayor Tim Rogers has provided our community with some insight into why a number of Plains Road residents might not want to be forced into giving up use of their individual water wells to become part of a proposed water district.
When it comes to spotting the economy’s unicorns, Start-Up New York has been a disappointment
In the past two years, Start-Up New York has fallen woefully short of expectations, while the other state programs picking the economic-development winners have had a mixed record. Meanwhile, the modest UVANY network, which has scored its successes and failures without direct governmental funding, continues to enlarge its constituency.
Is the drought of 2016 history?
With climate change and other forms of uncertainty, assuring water supply is an increasingly expensive proposition.
How to stay sane and fight back
Some suggestions and resources for the loyal opposition.
Poll: Are inaugural protests healthy free speech or “sour grapes”?
The inauguration of Donald J. Trump has sparked protests in Washington and across the nation, leading to a lively debate about whether it’s appropriate to demonstrate against an incoming president before he’s taken any action.
How a Kingston-born lawyer became the Civil War spymaster
Sharpe’s approach to intelligence-gathering was praised by the CIA more than a century after his death. One writer said if it had been employed pre-911, that attack may never have happened. What might have been…
A new star in 2022? The century’s first naked-eye nova
An astronomy professor at a small Midwestern college, along with some of his students, predicts that an odd type of exploding star called a red nova would appear in our skies five years from now.