When government fails, it’s the rare public official who says, “Oops. My fault.” That’s human nature, particularly for officials in the public eye who may have to run for office again. No one wants to be held directly responsible for letting the public down. Case in point is the ...

St. Bernard’s School patiently teaches that love means to emphasize the way of life wherein service to others, in all degrees of need, is how we act in love toward one another. It is not enough to simply be kind, because we must also be generous with our time, and willing to sacrifice some ...

Members of the Flat Earth Society believe that the earth is a disc, not a sphere, despite all evidence to the contrary. Images from space showing a blue ball are dismissed as the distortions of a wide-angle lens. Their maps show a wall of ice at the edge of a flattened projection of all known ...

Although I left the Catholic Church many years ago, I have a great deal of respect for members of the Society of Jesus — Jesuit priests and brothers. As one of their missions is education, Jesuits have a reputation for being first-rate scholars who take on controversial issues regarding the ...

The Adirondack Park Agency will issue a death warrant to a pristine Adirondack lake Friday, and a mystery lurks as to why. Woodward Lake, in Fulton County, is about 100 acres, undeveloped and shallow. The entire tract is about 1,200 acres. The developer (who, according to Protect the ...

The other day two men knocked on the sliding glass bedroom door of my friend’s house. Unbeknownst to her, they’d parked a couple of vehicles in her private driveway along Route 73, between Keene and Lake Placid, and were planning to snowshoe up Brown Mountain from her backyard. There’s no ...