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Opinion

Time for chili

Columns

Brr! It was a cold weekend in the Adirondacks. When the weather chills, we crave wholesome, starchy food. Enter chili, with bold spices and fresh flavor. Chili is always a crowd pleaser — and everyone has a unique recipe. Vegetarian, vegan, paleo, meat — they’re all different. Even the ...

Is this the America we want?

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Lucian Truscott, writing in his Jan. 10 newsletter, notes that Trump appropriated $170 billion for immigration and border enforcement in his “Big Beautiful Bill.” To put that number in perspective, the defense budget for Great Britain is $83 billion, while France spends ...

What was learned from the Hiibel case

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Try looking up the Supreme Court case: Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada. This case is about a rancher in Nevada who sued when he was arrested for refusing to show his ID to police. The court decided against Hiibel, saying the only people who are required ...

Walking pneumonia/mycoplasma

Columns

Parents have been coughing up lots of questions about whether or not their child who has had a cough and fever for several days could be experiencing a walking or mild pneumonia. Let me see if I can walk you through some information on this topic. A pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. ...

Freezing in style

Columns

If you talk to anyone who grew up here in the ‘50s and ‘60s, there are two things they’ll all agree on. One is we had great childhoods, though maybe not in material terms. Salaries were hardly sultanic and we didn’t have all the bling and options of city and suburban kids. For ...

A simple act of kindness

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Ten days ago, on my way to church, I met a stranger who was also on his way to church, albeit a different one. Having found a parking space on Church Street a few hundred feet from St. Luke’s, I made it onto the icy sidewalk across a large pile of plow-driven snow. ...