Op-ed

Here in the Hudson Valley, the CSX freight track hugs the western bank of the Hudson River as it passes...

At a recent Woodstock Town Board meeting in February 14, two board members questioned the integrity of volunteers serving on...

Covid exposed major gaps in our healthcare system. In a 2021 study, nearly half of Americans surveyed reported recent symptoms...

At the January 24, 2023 meeting of the Onteora Board of Education, trustees voted 6 to 0 (with one abstention)...

Muncie today has a population of 63,000. Thirty percent live in poverty, about 10.5% are Black, 2.5% are refugees, only...

The Onteora Central School District’s low student enrollments continue to raise serious issues. Something needs to be done. Graduating classes...

Maedeh Ojaghlou, 28-years-old, arrived in New York City via Dubai from Tehran on an F1 student visa in August 2022.

Censorship, banning and shunning is not a new story in America’s schools, where backlash against advances in civil rights and...

The Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz had a celebration in the garden on October 22, the first in a...

My family has been in Woodstock for four generations, and in the Catskills region even longer than that. I grew...

It was a celebratory moment: fist-bumps and high-fives all around. New York State attorney general Letitia James headed to the...

There are more than 400-million guns in America. And though that number includes police and military, there are more guns...

At the end of the last school year, teachers reported that it was one of the most difficult in this...

On May 10, the voters of Woodstock spoke when they overwhelmingly approved the bond to fund the Woodstock Library District’s...

There is something majestic about law, whether one agrees or disagrees with its statutory, common, or case law foundation. The...

I believe the Woodstock Public Library belongs in town, based on the key concepts of library facility development found in...

This hearing is important, if not more so than Watergate, because the crimes associated with the Capitol rioters as well...

Regulation of women’s bodies reinstated by five men and one woman justice of the SCOTUS by overturning two key abortion...

9 a.m. EST, Thursday, July 7. Well known Ukrainian broadcaster, Peter Zalmayev, is talking to me on Zoom from a...

We are inundated with news concerning mass shootings in public places, including schools.  What most of these shootings have in...