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Guest Commentary

Twice the price

$27,500,000, plus. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste that much money. Indeed, $150,000 has been blown already on planning from Wendel Five Bugles. They used our $150K to increase the size of the proposed emergency services building from the original 35,160 square ...

A community of generosity and bikes

Those who’ve experienced a Bike Adirondacks (BikeADK) event know — because I say it a lot — is that everything we do is designed to get more people riding bikes in the Adirondacks. The biggest way we do that is by featuring the landscape and communities of this special place in a way that ...

Tanzania today: Defiance and bloodshed

The story spinning was in full force. The protesters were “criminals” and “a small group.” They were “unpatriotic.” They were “foreign nationals” sent to incite violence. As a family of the Tanzanian diaspora living in the U.S., we were shocked to hear these news reports coming ...

Steering into a perfect storm

A perfect storm is on the horizon, and it threatens to swamp the most vulnerable members of our region. Dramatic changes to the funding of social programs, including Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), will cause thousands of our neighbors to lose their benefits. To ...

Can we put Christ back in Christian?

“The metamorphosis of Jesus Christ from a humble servant of the abject poor to a symbol that stands for gun rights, prosperity theology, anti-science, limited government that neglects the poor and fierce patriotism is truly the strangest transformation in human history.” — Rainn Wilson ...

Honoring my grandmother

I will always remember Dec. 6, 2024, the day I buried my grandmother. As I helped shovel the dirt into the ground, I thought about how her passion for hiking shaped my life. After a decade of dragging my dad and uncle, her sons, up all the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, my grandmother became ...