Hugh Reynolds

Despite public revulsion, negatives work, if only to bring front-runners to heel.

A new proposal would increase legislators’ terms from two years to four years, but limit them to three terms total....

A blast of fresh air blew into the local congressional race last week in the person of independent candidate Diane...

Thoughts on the rumors surrounding Kingston Mayor Steve Noble.

Congressman John Faso didn’t exactly wow ‘em at last week’s Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting, but he...

A six-pack of Democratic congressional candidates bashing Republicans on Super Bowl Sunday? What were they thinking? 

Contractors began ripping up 11.5 miles of county-owned U&D tracks at the Ashokan Reservoir last week to create a rail...

The Democrats suffer no such restrictions as Ronald Reagan’s famous Eleventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans.”...

Politics being a game of deliberate deception, I strongly advise readers to take the many political polls that will be...

The showcase contest in 2018 will be the Congress race, with incumbent Republican John Faso looking like Custer at Little...

This edition marks the 25th anniversary of Hugh’s Christmas list. As Hugh has detailed in the past, each one-line mention...

When government officials routinely appropriate rather large sums to balance their budgets, it seems to me the books weren’t really...

In Rally Point, his third book, former Congressman Chris Gibson uses his own life journey as an Army combat commander,...

Hinchey, in many ways, redefined politics in these parts. He didn’t just show up in October of election years. He...

John Parete (photo by Dan Barton) I don’t know why Bonnie Parker’s poem popped into my head after the counting of...

According to Ulster County Executive Mike Hein, it took something like 60 seconds for him to reject out of hand...

For what it’s worth, the unofficial returns indicate Republicans will (barely) hold their majority in the county legislature, regardless of...

The tape indicated that Gary Short, who may have thought he had pulled over Tonya Harding, should be nominated for...

To me, unopposed races represent a failure of our two-party system. At best, it rewards a stellar official with a...

Democrats need win only one more seat to take back the legislature. I like their chances.