Editorials

Zephyr Teachout. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) If you are a registered Democrat in the state of New York, I urge you...

I was all set to write that Woodstockers should vote to approve the Library budget, following a carefully crafted campaign...

Kingston Times editor Dan Barton. It seems the city’s new ethics board fumbled its first case. We’d like to see...

Something’s wrong here in Ulster County. On April 15 a man was shot by a sheriff’s deputy after he allegedly...

Kingston Times editor Dan Barton. (Photo: Keith Ferris/Keith Ferris Photo) When I heard about the Supreme Court ruling (just barely)...

Kingston Times editor Dan Barton. I admit it — I am obsessed with that freaking plane. Aren’t you? It’s a...

Kingston Times editor Dan Barton. It has come to this, the mayoralty of Shayne Gallo, this sad and funny juncture...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. It’s Super Bowl week, and part of that extravaganza extraordinaire is Media Day, where the...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. The way it should be in this country is this way: You’re free to hold...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. The community of the Kingston City School District took a step forward on Tuesday, approving...

If your house looked the way Kingston High School looks — with crumbling plaster, water-stained ceilings, radiators so rusted they...

Call for help! The holiday season is rapidly approaching. For many of us it is a joyous time that is...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. If you stop wanting to try new things in life, you’re really just marking time...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. I have had lots of opinions building up over my one-week vacation, so I am...

So, it really has come down to a public vote on whether to allow casinos (the Native American ones near...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. ‘Tolerance always has limits — it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.’ — Sidney...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. The Aaron Alexis story is depressingly familiar. Someone with mental problems has a few run-ins...

Photo by shnnn Uplifting summit With all of the bad news in the world, it is uplifting when something positive...

Kingston Times Editor Dan Barton. Events right up here in Kingston and down there in New York City last week...

Dan Barton. Yet another chapter in the seemingly endless epic of how we deal with guns in this country is...