Are you shopping locally for Christmas? --- Total votes: 567 Yes, more than usual: 93 votes, 16% Yes, about the same: 140 votes, 25% Yes, but less: 63 votes, 11% No: 260 votes, 46% Undecided: 11 votes, 2% --- This week’s Straw Poll: --- Do you agree with the state Department of ...

There is something for both liberals and conservatives not to like about the bipartisan proposal for $908 billion in new aid to Americans suffering from the COVID-19 epidemic. It is not what is in the plan but rather what is not in it. Many Democrats want more aid for states included in the ...

It is no fault of billionaire Jeff Bezos that COVID-19 is the grinch who stole Christmas. Bezos did not bring the virus to us. We have no hesitation in suggesting that if he could end the epidemic by spending his entire fortune, he would do so. Still, the coronavirus has increased Bezos’ ...

A second round of federal COVID-19 relief money, more than $900 billion, may be on its way to Americans soon. Thank a group of U.S. senators and representatives who have grown sick of the partisan bickering that has delayed a new relief bill for months. They are unlike many politicians, ...

While patient privacy is important, so is public grief, and we wish there was not so much secrecy about deaths. We are grateful that relatively few North Country residents have died of COVID-19 so far — and none that we know of yet in the Tri-Lakes area — but given the recent outbreaks ...

We are glad the Adirondack Park’s elected representatives — Republican and Democratic alike — and advocacy groups prevailed over the state Department of Transportation and convinced the governor to sign a road salt reduction bill the Legislature had passed almost unanimously in July. ...