Hugh Reynolds

Heroin addicts put their syringes in trees to keep anyone from stepping on them. (Photo: Thomas Marthinsen via Flickr) It...

Cartoon by Bruce Ackerman. Though bad losers almost always make for better copy than winners, there are limitations. Winners usually...

Mayor Shayne Gallo speaks at a vigil last weekend for four Kingstonians who died in a car crash in Saugerties....

Part of the packed audience at Monday’s debate. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) It occurs to me sometimes as I listen and...

Left, Mayor Shayne Gallo. Right, challenger Steve Noble. (Photos: Dan Barton) This coming Monday's mayoral debate may not decide the...

County Exec Mike Hein, seen here under an April shower with Mayor Gallo and U.S. Sen. Schumer. (Dan Barton) From...

The columnist Reynolds. It could have been a town hall meeting just about any place in the region, or upstate,...

John Parete. (Photo: Dan Barton) Ulster County Legislature Chairman John Parete’s recently released think piece on campaign finance reform may...

Liana Turner at a 2014 Town of Ulster planning board meeting concerning the Niagara proposal. (Photo: Fionn Reilly) I expect...

The columnist Reynolds. It would appear from a breathless press release last week from Ulster’s county legislature  that nobody got...

From left, Mike Hein, Maurice Hinchey, Joe Martens, Jim Seward and Kevin Cahill cut the ribbon. (Phyllis McCabe) Most things...

The columnist Reynolds. Bill Carey was a New York City cop. He walked a beat in Hell’s Kitchen. One evening...

Mayor Shayne Gallo. (Photo: Dan Barton) It now appears that Mayor Shayne Gallo will be staking his political career on...

Maurice Hinchey. (Photo by Dan Barton) Long, long after the celestial event, it has been revealed that the original idea...

Roger Rascoe at the June 3, 2015 Ulster County Republican convention. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) "Do you have any idea what...

  The columnist Reynolds. Last month the Ulster County Legislature passed a resolution to appoint a study committee of legislators...

David Scarpino. I wasn’t in attendance at last month’s Chamber of Commerce breakfast where guest speaker HealthAlliance CEO Dave Scarpino...

Hein, Gallo and Schumer at the sinkhole April 7. (Photo: Dan Barton) I'll agree with Kingston Times editor Dan Barton...

Department of Social Services Commissioner Michael Iapoce. There’s sometimes a huge disconnect between screaming headlines and the official explanation. Take...

Mike Hein. (Photo: Dan Barton) I don’t normally hear the two words “Vietnam celebration” used together, but I did when...