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Facts matter, Mr. Panza
Last week, Ken Panza wrote that Alex Bolotow was “fired from the WEC.” This simply is not true. She resigned, along with two other members, Bob and Arlene, after much pressure from the supervisor about Church Road.
Ironically, the supervisor had previously tried to pressure me to quit, for being outspoken about the Church Road debacle. The supervisor tried to bluff, and said he could fire me. I was well aware that the supervisor cannot fire someone appointed by the board. The board must vote on it. I told him I wasn’t going anywhere. Eventually I was able to convince one of the previous members who left, Bob, to re-join. After much of the same frustrations, eventually Bob and I resigned as well.
Alex has since played the victim card on social media, starring in Finlay’s film in an uncomfortable cry for attention. And here we go again. Mr. Panza brings her up, like Jesus rising from the dead. I’m curious to know her and her husband Terry Richardson’s feelings about the supervisor’s latest botched hiring?
Mr. Panza has attempted to build a reputation for being smarter than anyone else in the room. But this too simply is not true. The devil is in the details. Please make sure you check your facts.
Erin Moran
Bearsville
No due process in Trumpland
We are all Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, the 18-year-old U.S. citizen who along with two friends were grabbed in North Palm Beach, Florida by masked officers in tactical gear and detained. Despite Laynez-Ambrosio identifying himself as a citizen, a U.S. border patrol agent declared, “You have no rights here. You are a migo, brother.” The video of the arrests of the three young men provided to The Guardian show an out-of-control group of law enforcement using stun guns and chokeholds while laughing about the bonuses they will receive for nabbing these folks. Being a citizen didn’t protect the young Latino.
Will it protect any Brown or Black person in Trump’s America? Complying with the officers’ demands to get out of the van didn’t protect the two undocumented young men from being thrown to the ground, electrically shocked and choked. Will compliance protect any Brown or Black people in Trumpland?
We have witnessed countless people roughed up and taken off the streets by masked men without due process. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution states that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” Yet, in Trump’s America, the Constitution and our rights are being trampled. We all must stand up against this authoritarian administration before we lose our rights and the country that we love.
NAACP Ellenville condemns what happened to Laynez-Ambrosio and his two friends in Florida. And we will speak out against any threat to human rights wherever they occur. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
What is happening to immigrants — and citizens who look like immigrants — is wrong. I hope you will join the NAACP Ellenville and demand that our government follow the law. If they don’t, peacefully take to the streets to demand justice for all.
Maude Bruce
Ellenville
I’ve bled enough
In the shadow of parades and hash tags, where flags wave above shuttered factories and school lockdown drills, the voice of Stephen Dedalus finds strange kinship with today’s disillusioned hearts. His old-world defiance — “Let my country die for me” — lands like a match on the dry grass of modern myths. In an America where soldiers fight wars they can’t name, teachers beg for supplies, and families sleep in cars beneath billboards that promise freedom, the reversal he speaks becomes a quiet anthem for those who no longer believe that dying is the highest form of belonging.
Like a protestor kneeling during a national anthem, or a veteran refusing to salute what broke them, this is not treason — it is testimony. The battlefield has moved. It’s in the grocery aisle, the ER waiting room, the courtroom steps. And in this surreal, fractured homeland, to choose life over spectacle, breath over badge, is to reclaim a country that often forgets who built it.
Joyce’s Stephen, drunk on the clarity of refusal, becomes an ancestor to every soul today who dares to say: I’ve bled enough. Let the myth die for me now.
Larry Winters
New Paltz
Texas lawsuit
Defending Taylor Bruck vs. Texas is costing taxpayers money. The local Democrats need to pay for this. The public should not.
Ryan Van Kleeck
Town of Ulster
Defense of the Indefensible
Councilperson Laura Ricci, in comments regarding the Level 3 sex offender hired by the town, is quoted as saying, “The state page on this person’s criminal situation says this information cannot be used to harm this individual.”
It’s not unusual for councilperson Ricci to misread documents. The New York Sex Offender Registry actually states, “Anyone who uses this information to injure, harass or commit a criminal act against any person may be subject to criminal prosecution.” Councilperson Ricci claims terminating the employment of a Level 3 sex offender would be a criminal act by the town board. The Sex Offender Registry characterizes a Level 3 sex offender is “a high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists.”
But the supervisor wants to give him a second chance. A second chance for what? A second chance for high risk of repeat offenses? Apparently a second chance includes the children at Andy Lee Field and summer camp, kids at the youth center, and the soccer teams at Comeau.
Councilperson Ricci claims she was blindsided, but it’s Woodstock’s parents that have been blindsided. There’s no rational explanation for the town to hire a Level 3 sex offender whose special conditions of supervision include “no contact with minors” when the requirements of his job exposes him to minors. It’s the town board’s role to protect the security and safety of Woodstock’s residents, not to defend a Level 3 sex offender.
Ken Panza
Woodstock
Immigrant terror and confusion
We, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and our associates, feel compelled to respond to the terror and confusion being experienced by immigrant communities in our country today. With many Catholic bishops who have written pastoral letters and op-eds, or who have taken direct action to appeal at ICE offices, we join the call to advocate for a humane solution to our very broken immigration system.
At this time of crisis and anger, we must decide what kind of country we want to be. Most of us, regardless of political affiliation, agree that our borders must be protected and that criminals or people intending harm be kept out. But most who are here without documentation have jobs and families, pay taxes, and contribute to the community as good neighbors, not “vicious criminals.” Many were considered “essential workers” during Covid.
Let us put our time and energy into working together to fix our broken immigration system, rather than spending millions annually on demonizing, arresting, and detaining our neighbors in inhumane centers like “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Finally, let us pray for Congress, that they may do “the work of the people” in a way that our own hope-filled immigrant ancestors would approve.
Sister Mary Catherine Redmond
Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, New Windsor
These were warning signs
Bravo, Ruben Lindo, who emerges as the hero in forthrightly addressing the recent on-going pedophile assaults plaguing Saugerties for way too long. In a letter to the editor, Lindo wrote “For years, community members have whispered about these allegations about misconduct, abuse of power, and an unhealthy internal culture. These weren’t isolated rumors, they were warning signs.”
He was referencing the recent felony assault arrest of Saugerties police officer Sydney Mills for the rape of a young girl — which wasn’t any surprise to members of our community. Mills was implicated with his former police partner for luring vulnerable girls into the back of their police car, where they were assaulted. Unfortunately, the charges were dropped, which is not unusual when children are face-to-face with the power of the police and a community which all too often circles its wagons.
That was the case from several years ago involving a teen and her Saugerties high-school coach. His buddies rallied and made sure she was painted as untrustworthy and out to “get” the coach. Yet for years prior, mothers warned other moms to avoid the coach in question. Of course, charges were never pressed.
Now we have another coach arrested as a pedophile. His case is somehow linked to the arrest of Mills, and the rumor mill is ripe with the inside scoop. What do some high schoolers have to say about this coach’s arrest and the arrest of Mills? And the allegations from years ago against the other coach? Ask them and they will tell you, “Nobody’s surprised.”
Lindo, the letter writer, suggested that there be an investigation by the attorney general.
“This is about ensuring that our local leadership — elected and appointed — is willing and able to meet this challenge with the clarity, courage and compassion required to rebuild what has been lost,” Lindo wrote. What’s been lost, Lindo maintains, is the community’s trust.
Spot on. Since a small community such as ours is too blinded by family connections and generational friendships to be unbiased.
Jo Galante Cicale
Saugerties
What’s in a poll?
In a recent CBS poll, different demographic groups were polled on immigration policies. It showed support falling for how Trump’s agencies were handling arresting, detaining and deporting illegal aliens. Support was down to 44 percent and disapproval was at 56 percent. On targeting only dangerous criminals or not prioritizing only dangerous criminals, 44 percent said law enforcement was targeting only criminal and 56 percent said they felt that those not being dangerous criminals were targeted.
Another question was whether you thought the administration was focusing too much, the right amount or not enough on deporting illegal aliens. Fifty-one percent said too much focus, 33 percent said the right amount, and 15 percent said not enough.
Okay, so polling showing support for Trump’s policies is slipping. But who was asked and what do they know? Remember what Ronald Reagan said. “It’s not that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are stupid, it’s just that so much of what they know is wrong.”
Here’s another question that can be used to calibrate the knowledge of those polled. They were asked if Trump’s policies made border crossings go down, go up or stay the same. There’s a right and wrong answer and it is based on fact. All HV1 readers should know the right answer. Only 64 percent of those polled thought that border crossings went down. They actually dropped like a rock. Twenty-eight percent got it wrong, saying no differences, and eight percent said crossings went up. During the Biden administration, there were up to two million illegal crossings per year. Almost all of them were released into the U.S. After January 20 this year, encounters are on target to be 80.000 per year. Almost all of those are detained or turned back. That’s a 95 percent reduction since Trump took office.
Do these people who got it wrong not know or refuse to acknowledge the facts? Of the Democrats in this question, 53 percent got it wrong. And these people vote.
There are two big takeaways from this poll. The first is that you have to take reporting on a poll with a grain of salt. Do some research. Read the questions. The other is that people have to get out of their echo chambers and visit a variety of news sources.
I’m thinking a good Democrat presidential ticket for 2028 would be Gavin Newsom and Jasmine Crockett. Party on!
Tom McGee
Gardiner
Avoid the dystopian fantasy
I’m not saying it’s a stampede. But what are the odds? In the last seven days, I’ve met three refugees from Texas. Three people who recently chose to leave that state and move to the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Their stories are all slightly different. But the one thing they had in common? Their aversion to decisions made by a Republican-dominated state government. For example, one former Texan told me he found it untenable to live in a state where people would rather “pray” for victims than pay for sirens that would surely have saved lives during the July 4th flooding in Kerr County that cost 137 innocent lives. Another defector, a woman in her late 20s, told me she could no longer live in a state where she had no control over her own reproductive health. The third person I spoke with didn’t share her exodus story, but she did tell me how eager she was to jump right into the resistance movement here in New York State.
Although my sample size of three is admittedly small, it makes me wonder. How many people will leave (or have already left) the states where they no longer feel safe? And furthermore, what can we do to make sure that our state remains a safe haven for all of us who don’t believe in the Project 2025 dystopian fantasy of creating a white, Christian, heterosexual, male-dominated republic?
I don’t know that I have the answer. I don’t know that anyone does. But as depressed and overwhelmed and angry as I am by the hostile and illegal takeover of our country by MAGA extremists, I wake up every morning and ask myself: how can I live with myself if I do nothing to resist? And I know the answer to that. I can’t.
Charlotte Adamis
Kingston
We are living mirrors
In Greek mythology, the boy Narcissus becomes entranced with his own face as he sees it reflected in a pool of water. Closer and closer he peers until he falls in and drowns. This story came to mind this morning as I looked in the mirror that hangs over the sink where the face that looks back at me is strangely not the face I feel I live inside of. Who is this old guy?
The British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott observed mothers mirroring the expressions of their infants and surmised how important this was to the development of attachment and identity. We know the mother’s face long before we know our own, and this face seems to be ever-changing. The thought comes that other people are our true mirrors, not as mimics but by virtue of an attention that flashes back and forth between us.
In Hebrew the word for face, panim, is always in the plural. There are 42 muscles in our faces, allowing a range of expressions from wide-eyed astonishment to the hint of a smile or frown. We learn to read one another, and we learn that we are read, and often better than we read ourselves. Only in death is the face still.
The great loss we all feel when someone we have known and known us is gone leaves us in some sense with a loss to our faces. We don’t just lose the connection; we lose the experience of being seen in the reciprocities of recognition. The loss of those connections does not apply only to old age; but if we live long enough we will lose faces that loved our own.
When I hear the stories of lost spouses or reflect my own and recent loss of a woman who had been all but a sister to me for more than 60 years, I understands how irreplaceable are the faces we have loved. In our culture’s proliferating, virtual forms of self-representation, are we not seeking to be seen by means that cannot give us what we really need? That need is met in many ways —- through touch, conversation, collaboration, and play —- but most intimately in the real-time encounters where we are living mirrors for one another.
There is no substitute for this encounter. When one we love is gone, we have, in a deep sense, lost one of our faces.
Graceful Aging meets at Elting Library in New Paltz frim 10:30 to noon the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
Peter Pitzele
New Paltz
Secret places
There are secret places
all over the world.
They have no sign
like a long, slim finger
pointing the way. No
directional north or south.
But, wast and west, these
places should be shared.
Spots for everyone there,
I hear. I’d like to send out
a dove around the world
with a message: Lift you
red, velvety curtain. Let
everybody in. It’s heaven.
It’s your heart.
Patrick Hammer, Jr.
Saugerties
Keep the community garden
I’m a gardener in the Woodstock community garden and a long-time community member. I was almost arrested at the Andy Lee Field Park for planting food for the greater community of this area. They’re already talking about removing the garden, which has been there since 1976, and changing it to a parking lot.
I’ve been persistently harassed while gardening in front of the fence for the community so that people who actually live here are able to enjoy the benefits of the garden rather than it being closed off and locked and separate from the public. I spoke with a lot of people around town, who thought it would be a fantastic idea if they could walk up to the park and pick their own herbs, fruits and vegetables for free — organically grown and fresh from the plant. They all said that nobody would complain about having free food.
Come to find out as I was planting a pumpkin patch for the public I was almost arrested because someone called the police on me for gardening.
Evan Smyres
Woodstock
Some areas of agreement
So 39 percent claim to be sure that their firm MAGA views they truly believe to be pure. Led by deception and lies, within two years they will plainly see and feel the destructive maggots left by the self-serving fearful flies.
Oh, how sad for us all, both red and blue, but there may be hope that the upcoming bad times may alter the collective hue.
Perhaps soon, together, our changed lives and circumstances will force us to band together like birds of a now-new purple feather…
Our democracy’s glass is still half full, but the water is polluted. It needs to be purified in a way that’s not politically convoluted.
Some things we might agree on: term limits, public financing of elections, ranked-choice voting, no limit on Social Security tax, permanent tax break only for those under $100,000, reduced or no Social Security for incomes over $100,000, one year of community or national service for everyone over 18, and independent redistricting panels
We can also all agree that Gladiator 2 was a horrible movie compared to Gladiator, and that Elon Musk should be chemically castrated
Ron Stonitsch
New Paltz
Privatizing Medicare
Congress is considering H.R. 3467, a bill that would force all seniors into Medicare Advantage plans, eliminating traditional Medicare as we know it. For those of us with with critical conditions requiring expert specialists, this is more than bad policy. It’s a threat to our lives. To be blunt: It could kill us.
Even those of us who don’t need specialists still feel confident in the care of doctors who have known us and our medical needs for years.
But Medicare Advantage won’t let us see our doctors. Instead, we’re forced to see their doctors, who often change from year to year. Worse, it delays care, often denying it outright; it restricts access and locks patients into plans designed to benefit them – not us.
H.R. 3467 doesn’t improve Medicare. It privatizes it, removing choice and increasing risk, all to maximize the profit of stockholders.
I urge readers to contact their representatives and demand real reform — not forced enrollment into corporate-run plans.
Paul Cooper
Kingston
The soul thrives in nature
Well said, Victor McGregor (Feedback, HV1, 7/29). You imply what I believe: that what some realize but many don’t is that Winston Farm is the soul of Saugerties. And we pave over our soul at the cost of losing it.
Losing one’s soul is no laughing matter. Better to keep it and care for it than to have a job or a house, much less those even more elusive lower taxes.
The soul of Winston Farm is its ecosystem: its plants, animals, and insects; its woods and wetlands and grasslands. The soul thrives in nature, not in the built environment. Winston Farm, just as it is, matters to community life in Saugerties just like an individual soul matters to that person. Without it, you’re only alive in the material sense.
But jobs and houses are important to material life. So it’s a happy fact is that Saugerties has large areas already zoned for commercial development and plenty of retail space in the already-existing village waiting for development. And there is visibly plenty of property to build more houses on. How about on the ample acreage of some of the people who would like to build them on Winston Farm? The point being that there’s absolutely no need to destroy the soul of Saugerties for either jobs or housing.
Even worse, I’ve heard, is to actually sell your soul. Here’s where the motivation to make money comes in. The only people in danger in that scenario are the investors who own Winston Farm (the three local businessmen we know about and whoever else may be hiding behind that “LLC”). They could gain their souls as well as the blessings of current and future residents of Saugerties and of all who visit Saugerties for her small-town rural charm.
As for the five members of the town board in whose hands the decision to keep Winston Farm substantially intact lies, teir responsibility is grave. In the name of all that really matters, SOS!
Janet Moss Asiain
Saugerties
Holy bottleneck!
It seems that the government is smaller. Of course, we have experienced a lot of layoffs among federal workers, so yes, the government employs less people. I am not exactly clear what the total reductions actually are at this point, but I am guessing it is over 200,000. The federal government has employed over three million people.
The National Park Service has lost something over 40 percent of its staff, the Education Department has been severely cut back; the State Department has seen large reductions. The Department of Homeland Security, FCC, FTC, FBI, Health and Human Services and Social Security have all been gutted. As an exception, ICE (part of Homeland Security, to be fair) will be seeing really big increases in staffing so the country will be a safer place to live and work — so they say. Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department has seen significant reductions too –about 2000 people. The goal is to cut 20 percent of staff or about another 6000 people out of a total of 43,000 employees).
Gee, I wonder what the impact will be. In an article in the Times Herald Record’s Nation and World Extra August 4th edition, the reporting team describes how the department is struggling to give “export licenses” to U.S. exporters, and how the increase in delays is going to hurt the competitive advantage of U.S. technology companies. This, in turn, will affect the American worker. Why is there a delay? The decision-making has been centralized to a few individuals – it’s a smaller department with fewer qualified decision-makers. Is this smart? Do we want to backlog American exports? Are we being penny-wise and pound-foolish?
The centralized decision process is happening at Department of Homeland Security as well where the head of the whole department has to approve any expense voucher or contract for anything over $1000! Holy bottleneck! The department employs about 200,000 people! Maybe a small real-estate conglomerate can operate this way, but a department with a budget of $56.7 billion is going to have a tough time functioning with this kind organizational structure. God help the Hudson Valley if we have a natural disaster!
Of course, the wealthy and corporate America are going to continue to enjoy their fabulous tax rates and tax breaks. Is this the way the whole government is going to run, or not run?
The point is that government will not be able to effectively deliver its services to the American people because the organizational structure as well as the staffing level of the U.S. government are completely inappropriate and insufficient.
Maybe bigger is better. Please reduce your expectations. Hey, sometime, give a listen to Pink’s song “What about us?” with our current federal administration running our country in mind. It might just strike your heart and get you involved.
Steve Bangert
Clintondale
Federal funding cuts
How do cuts in federal funding impact New Paltz? It depends on what funding you are considering – funding for municipal services, funding for municipal capital projects, or funding for citizens’ individual needs.
Municipal services: Our town-supplied services are funded by our local property taxes and fees and are basically shielded from federal funding ups and downs. That means there is no direct impact on our police coverage, ambulance response, justice court, clerk’s and assessor’s offices, community center programs, youth center programs, pool, office of community wellness programs, sports programs, summer camp, transfer station, recycle/re-use center, code enforcement, fire inspections, building permits, and animal control. Same for highway department maintenance of our 60 miles of roads funded with several sources of state and county money. Same for our four water and six sewer districts’ maintenance that are funded with their users’ fees.
Capital projects: Our capital projects are usually funded with grants from state and county sources, not federal, so they are also typically shielded. That said, we have lost non-grant federal sources of funding recently that we had expected to use to supplement grants. This has necessitated revision of the work on Sewer 6 and on solar-panel installations on municipal buildings.
Citizens’ expenses: This is an area where our community can be hurt very directly. Medicaid and SNAP are federal programs that assure medical care and nutrition and have been cut drastically. About 22 percent of our town residents are eligible for one or both of these programs. There are not any comparable programs that could realistically be budgeted at our local level. If county or state funds are called to pick up these programs, we could certainly expect to see local impacts on availability of grants and other funding.
Grants commit money to reimburse a municipality for paid expenses that are necessary to complete a capital project. To get the money to pay expenses upfront typically requires the municipality to take out a type of loan called a bond. When the paid expenses are submitted for reimbursement by the grant, the reimbursement can then be used to pay back the bond. Without grants, capital projects would need to be funded entirely by bonds. The town has done this, most recently with a 30-year bond for the new police and justice building and also for some highway equipment. As long as bonds, whether for grant reimbursement or not, are handled responsibly and are paid on schedule, they have minimal effect on the town’s state comptroller fiscal score. In fact, the town has received the best score possible – zero – for the last four years.
Amanda Gotto
Supervisor, Town of New Paltz
Trump’s stealing the midterms
His spokesperson told New York Times reporters that the Trump strategy is: “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.” As the saying goes, all is fair in love and war.
President Trump has repeatedly shown his lack of concern for fairness, and that he is not bound by the law. His policies are severely unpopular, and his people are expected to lose the 2026 election. He directed them to illegally gerrymander voting districts in many states, making losing impossible.
He is basically stealing the election. Trump is at war and is doing what will make him win. If this is war, our side needs to fight to win. Come on, Democrats! Get serious and stop playing fair. Grab those arrows in your quiver and use them well.
Hal Chorny
Gardiner
Federal money to villages
Villages receive minimal direct financial support from the federal government. However, broad and expanding federal cuts could increase costs of capital projects for local taxpayers, or result in fewer projects getting done.
Local transportation funding for highways and roads is primarily funded by the state, with some assistance provided by the federal government. During the last five years (FY21 – FY25), this important combined federal and state revenue source amounted to $1,015,490 for the Village of New Paltz. Some estimates suggest the state contributes 65 percent to 90 percent of this transportation money.
Separately, if the Village of New Paltz did not proactively pursue grant opportunities, we would have little if any money to list in our annual audits under “Expenditures of Federal Awards.” But we spend a significant amount of time and effort applying for numerous grants, even though we do not have staff whose primary job description includes grantwriting and administration.
We apply for various competitive grants, and sometimes we are successful. Other times we aren’t. We almost exclusively apply for opportunities where NYS or Ulster County departments and agencies decide whether to award us with funds. But what is interesting and feels unintuitive is how the majority of these grant awards are sourced from the federal government, and not the state or county.
During the last five years, our annual audits have illustrated that grant awards, which helped significantly towards the following capital project costs, originated with the federal government, and amounted to $9,267,209: $4,918,641 – fire station (via NYS); $3,923,568 – sewer line replacements (via NYS); $425,000 – water line replacements (via UC).
Another net negative effect of federal cuts could lead to increased bonding to fund critical projects, thus jeopardizing the village’s overall credit rating, and therefore our cost to borrow across the board.
Tim Rogers
Mayor, Village of New Paltz
Hate the offense, not the offender
Lately, media regionwide have focused on Woodstock’s hiring of Michael Innello for a Town maintenance position. Because Mr. Innello is on a public registry, local residents were able to identify and expose his past criminal and cruel sexual offense. But problems with the registry system itself have been ignored. Here are some facts that Woodstockers—particularly those with the most vitriolic and emotional opposition to Mr. Innello’s right to work here—should know.
• Registries make a registrant’s personal information available to any member of the public (not just law enforcement officials), including name, address, employment and employer history, and vehicle information. This deprivation of privacy rights opens the door to potential harassment and violence.
• According to the Juvenile Law Center, nearly 90% of adults who commit sex offenses never reoffend—compared to 60% for all types of criminals.
• The “tiers” of risk on New York State’s registry do not in fact reflect actual risk to public safety. Instead, they are designations of relative risk of registrants in comparison to each other. For example, if a large percentage of registrants committed what officials define as “low-level crimes,” everyone else will be ranked as a “higher risk.”
• According to U.S. Department of Justice statistics, over one-quarter of all registrants on sex offense registries are minors, and in some states children as young as 10 can end up on a registry.
• Most people have to remain on registries for life, meaning no matter how long ago you committed your crime, how much time you spent in prison, or whether you’re now living as a “good citizen,” you’re at constant risk of being exposed and losing your place of work and residency. This oppressive reality can have severe spillover effects for friends and families.
Today in most countries, public executions, stoning for “immoral” acts, and community shunning are no longer acceptable methods of punishment. Perhaps one day, publicly accessible sex offense registries will also end up in history’s dustbin. For more information on registries—including why they do more harm than good and even some victims want to see them abolished—see the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws, www.narsol.org
Nadia Steinzor
Willow
A narcissist on steroids
In Trump’s case, he has IMHO, rolled snake eyes. Even though the dice cannot read their own spots, we the people can. In Trump’s case, this cult of personality has completely disintegrated traditional conservative values. He continues to make stuff up while shouting that it is true with a “believe me!” refrain.
He’s just a narcissist on steroids. He thinks he is Teflon — nothing has ever stuck to him so far, so nothing ever will. We are watching a historic event: a man who has never had to suffer consequences in his whole life is now going to be buried by them.
You can’t scream “witch hunt” when it’s your own flying monkeys providing evidence.
Neil Jarmel
West Hurley
Join the family! 
