Hugh Reynolds: Looking forward to 2018
The showcase contest in 2018 will be the Congress race, with incumbent Republican John Faso looking like Custer at Little Big Horn.
The showcase contest in 2018 will be the Congress race, with incumbent Republican John Faso looking like Custer at Little Big Horn.
This edition marks the 25th anniversary of Hugh’s Christmas list. As Hugh has detailed in the past, each one-line mention can require a hundred words of explanation. If you’re on the list, you know what he means. Otherwise- good luck!
We may have lost the battle, let’s win the war.
When government officials routinely appropriate rather large sums to balance their budgets, it seems to me the books weren’t really balanced in the first place. It’s like a floating crap game, with the public putting up the stakes.
In Rally Point, his third book, former Congressman Chris Gibson uses his own life journey as an Army combat commander, three-term Republican congressman and college professor as a template to return the country to its founding values, “under God,” and future prosperity.
If Democrats don’t let Progressives in, they will lose. That’s not a threat, it’s a fact.
Selections from the 11/30 print edition.
Hinchey, in many ways, redefined politics in these parts. He didn’t just show up in October of election years. He was everywhere, all the time.
Alternative future history I was sitting on the Catskill Mountain Railroad train looking at the sun sparkling on the Ashokan
I don’t know why Bonnie Parker’s poem popped into my head after the counting of the absentee ballots last week relegated