Tag: John Parete

An un-camera shy bear. A fable: Former Shandaken supervisor Neil (“There’s no law west of Boiceville”) Grant and a black ...

Pete Loughran. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) The Ulster County Legislature may not be the world’s greatest deliberative body, but it has ...

Cecilia Tkaczyk, waving, at right, was in town in March at Sara Niccoli’s state Senate campaign announcement. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) ...

The columnist Reynolds. I don't make it a practice of commenting on fellow columnists, but I want to commend Alan ...

T.R. Gallo. (Photo: Beth Blis) “How come nobody’s writing about the closing of Mid-City Lanes?” lamented an editor in what ...

The columnist Reynolds. How much of a raise would you give yourself if you could set your own salary? A ...

Ken Ronk. (Photo: Dan Barton) The Ulster County voting machines had barely cooled down when county legislators started jockeying for ...

Mike and Christine Hein applaud their supports on election night. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) A win is a win is a ...

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

Alderman at Large Jim Noble. (Photo: Phyllis McCabe) ANOTHER UPDATE: On Monday, Aug. 11, Noble announced he was postponing the ...

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

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

John Parete. (Photo: Dan Barton) “I knew I was going into a hostile thing,” Ulster County Legislature Chairman John Parete ...

Dave O'Halloran. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) Serious conflict has developed between the owners of the vacant Nevele in Ellenville and ...

U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson. (Photo: Dan Barton) People ask me, as if I knew, why Congressman Chris Gibson decided to ...

Shelly Silver feels the love at a school rally in New York City. (State Assembly photo) Pundits are agog over ...

The columnist Reynolds. Good-government groups are divided on a redistricting proposition on this year's ballot purported to bring more fairness ...

John Parete. (Photo: Dan Barton) It’s just as well that Ulster County Legislature Chairman John Parete cancelled a special legislative ...

The columnist Reynolds. Sometimes role reversal can be revealing. Take the case of County Executive Mike Hein and Assemblyman Kevin Cahill. ...

George Amedore. (Photo by Dan Barton) After “agonizing” for 15 months and concluding he hadn’t quite been ready for prime ...