Who decides how land is used? That’s the question at the heart of so many conversations in the Adirondacks around housing, zoning, water rights, indigeneity and what it means to be “forever wild.” It’s also the question at the heart of “Foragers” (2022) by Berlin-based artist ...

This year’s Earth Day theme, planet vs. plastic, calls for “the end of plastics for the sake of human and planetary health.” Is this achievable? Jennifer McDermott and Michael Hill wrote about how Judith Enck avoids “pointless plastic” (Enterprise, April 22, 2024). In our ...

How does winning at something make you feel? I, for one, feel wonderful. It’s an emotional high of exuberant energy. I may even jump up and down with excitement as the energy bubbles up from somewhere inside of me and is released. Nothing can bother or irritate me at these times and I ...

I want to thank Suzanne Miller for starting the conversation about Propositions 3 and 4, which will be on the Saranac Lake Central School District’s May 21 ballot. (“At Saranac Lake schools, funds for quality education should be top budget priority,” guest commentary, April 22) I hope ...

Demography is the statistical study of human populations — the size of a given population (a country, for example), fertility and death rates, the age structure as well as population distribution and density. French philosopher and father of sociology Auguste Comte (1798-1857) noted that ...

For those of us independents disgusted by the inaction on passing an aid bill for our allies, I say “thank you, Mike Johnson.” Thank you for finding a compromise that saw substantial numbers of Republicans and Democrats voting together to pass a bill that any serious observer of foreign ...