As columnist Paul Waldman notes, the NRA argues that the more guns in society, the safer we will all be, as a heavily-armed populace deters people from committing violent crimes. In 2022, there were 647 mass shooting in this country (averaging 1.8 per day) defined as four or more people killed ...

Much has been written about the Metropolitan Nashville Police response to the March school shooting massacre of nine students and three adults. Police received the incident call at 10:13 a.m, and 14 minutes later the shooter was dead. The courage of the responding officers was exemplary as they ...

We have noted the guest commentary, “The gift of death,” published in the Enterprise on May 24, and wish to comment. The author, Emily Cappello, represents a right-to-life organization in Rochester, New York. As supporters of New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act, now under ...

Current and past cinematic pieces covering end of life issues, such as “Plan 75,” are making their way back into cultural and political conversations. Regardless of belief in an “afterlife,” death and suffering are concepts most humans struggle to grasp. Euthanasia is the act of ...

There is a saying that asks: “Is your glass half-empty or is it half-full?” The illustration on a poster I once saw was of one glass, the clear liquid cresting at a halfway mark. I thought the poster quite poignant and adopted it as a philosophy by which to live my life. At the time, I ...

Last year, the Citizen’s Police Interface Committee, a public committee formed by the village of Saranac Lake to take public comments on local policing, met with members of the public at the farmers market and held listening session at locations around the village. We were able to interact ...