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Guest Commentary

The state should purchase Whitney Park

The State should purchase Whitney Park, a 36,000-acre area adjacent to the existing Whitney Wilderness area. It has been on the State’s Open Conservation Plan for purchase for decades. Most of the acreage is pristine forest lands and waters. As noted by the APA in 1996: “[the area has] ...

Our planet is dying, yet we keep polluting

My Facebook memories from 2015 talk about the hottest summer on record. That was then. 2025 was hotter. Our summers are hot and humid. My friend Tom recalls warm weather this past Halloween. “Years ago, we had snow on Halloween. Not anymore.” A recent article in the Adirondack Daily ...

How NY’s fiscal crises will impact APA’s headquarters

The Aug. 15 edition of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise had two interesting articles, one on the Adirondack Park Agency’s release of reports on its proposed move to downtown Saranac Lake, and the other on NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s recent remarks at the Adirondack Community ...

Vets long road home gets longer

Life will become more difficult for an untold number of this country’s “suckers and losers” — Trump-speak for military veterans — just over nine million of whom receive some or all of their healthcare through the Veterans Administration. The number of VA medical professionals has ...

August is make a will month

Every August, Make a Will Month offers a timely reminder of the importance of preparing for the future by establishing or updating a will. Yet despite the critical nature of this endeavor, many Americans continue to put it off. According to recent data, more than two-thirds of adults in the ...

Breakfast in Brooklyn

Every morning, over 2.5 million people have breakfast in Brooklyn. There are countless issues based on religion, culture, medical, diet requirements, preferences, what time to eat, what holiday it is and so on. A very intricate and complicated event, every single morning. To ensure this goes ...