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Kingston Times letters (3/30-4/5)
Topics include: Faso, Kingston parking, Pilgrim Pipeline protest
Hugh Reynolds: Chasing Obamacare
The Ulster County exec held a health care forum, in which he rallied an already indignant crowd against “heartless” Republicans, while our congressman risked an unpopular vote.
Letter: Kingston teachers should contribute to health insurance to close budget gap
Isn’t it time for the Kingston City School District employees to start making contributions to their very expensive taxpayer-funded health plan? Most employees in the real world contribute 20 percent to their health plans. Twenty percent of $35.5 million is $7.1 million. Voila — we have a solution.
A city guy
After years of playing second fiddle to the suburban areas around them, some — but not all — of the Hudson Valley’s urban centers are to some degree thriving again, though not by doing what they used to do.
Kingston Times letters (3/23-30)
Allow drug returns at pharmacies, Watching Faso, Disturbed by Tillerson, Trumpcare hurts seniors.
Hugh Reynolds: Faso’s deciding health care vote?
Though the anti-Faso resistance is mobilizing in Ulster County, the congressman won the race thanks to the solidly Republican north, and it surely looked kindly on his health care vote.
Kingston Times letters (3/16-23)
Climate change isn’t going away, health care plan is about controlling women, bridges not walls, Medicare plan under attack, cancer survivors know ACA’s value.
Hugh Reynolds: The watchdog, defanged
Personally, in choosing between the comptroller and the academic on one side and the rest of county government on the other, I find the angels on the side of Auerbach and Benjamin— but angels don’t vote.
My only sunshine
New innovations in solar panels and the grid come to the Hudson Valley.