Hugh Reynolds: The morning after
One thing we can say: Turnout was terrific, and that’s never a bad thing even if the results leave half the electorate in dismay.
Voices
Saugerties Times letters (11/10-16)
Topics include: What the election was really about, fireman with 60 years service, the Saugerties Animal Shelter, pipeline risks.
Election 2016: It’s the Cubs’ fault
One unlikely event followed another…
Kingston After Dark: Blue-Collar Holler
Hopefully, next week won’t birth a racist paradise or nuclear war or any more references to Anthony Weiner ever again in modern times (let that be the last one). In case that doesn’t work for you, I do have plenty of good news about upcoming rock ‘n’ roll concerts to whet your appetite for life anew and help you face the days ahead.
Hugh Reynolds: What happens the morning after?
This has been a most unusual election year. No matter who wins, the rancor will persist well after next Tuesday.
The state of the Catskills
The keynote speaker told the fourth biennial conference of the Catskill Environmental Research and Monitoring last Thursday morning that he regards the creation of the state Catskills forest preserve in 1888 as the beginning of “what must be one of the longest experiments in natural recovery and restoration ecology” in the world.
Kingston Times letters (11/3-9)
Topics include: Congressional race…Zombies salute their sponsors…1863, 1929, 2016…short-term rentals…surrogate court race
Saugerties Times letters (11/3-9)
Topics include: the Congressional race, Clovelea/Dragon Inn, election mailers, Standing Rock, Jill Stein.
Does the universe exist outside of our consciousness?
Einstein said he was reluctant to give up on trying to solve this question, and yet he had to. It is an enigma that arises because quantum mechanics keep revealing a universe that is dependent on the observer. That is to say, the presence of the observer influences experimental results.
Hugh Reynolds: Last licks
The congressional debate…Ulster County ethics changes…self-aggrandizement by elected officials…a green mayor…new leadership in the Independence (NOT independent) Party