In July 2025, this weekly traffic safety column alerted readers to an increasing safety problem caused by forward blind zones. An update from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) provides additional information on this subject, more specifically about the increased danger to ...

I’m glad the days are slowly getting longer and brighter. The busyness of shopping, decorating, cooking is over. The week between Christmas and New Year is a time of rest, reflection and change. A time to reset, look in the mirror, plan for the future. These are dark days. Goodness and ...

Page One was loaded with local stories, 67 years ago, from Lake Placid’s First Annual Eastern Invitational Ski Jump to the Saranac Lake Free Library looking to buy the Guild House. And you know what else? Jim Ellis and John McGill won oratorical awards ... and my friend, Mr. Ellis, hasn’t ...

I’m on my way to Singapore to visit my father with my daughter C, 40,000 feet above ground, hurtling through thin air at 500 miles an hour, feeling a bit lost and restless. There is an atemporality and aspatiality to air travel that at once saddens me and wakes me up. - The freedom of ...

While I’ve never thought of myself anything special. but I think one thing distinguishes me from most people. It is I’ve lived my whole life through radio. Of course that was a given when I was a kid, since when it came to electronic home entertainment, radio was the only game in town. In ...