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 ...

An open letter to the taxpayers, board of education and administration of the Saranac Lake Central School District: In an April 12, 2024 front page article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, readers were informed by the board of education (BOE) and superintendent of the Saranac Lake Central ...

On April 1—the same day that seven international aid workers with celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen were killed by the Israeli military—the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria was obliterated by a bomb dropped from an Israeli F-35 fighter jet (supplied by the U.S.), ...

Two years ago, when I was 15, four of my friends attempted suicide. They were of various socioeconomic statuses, of different genders and sexualities, from different schools and family structures, and yet they all felt their only option was to take their own lives. That was the year I lost the ...

Thank you, people of Saranac Lake, for allowing me to serve as your trustee on the Saranac Lake Village Board for the past eight years. I will always appreciate having worked for you, doing my very best day-in and day-out. Fall down a few times? Yes, I did. I am human. I am sorry for those ...

We are all familiar with the constitutional provision for three coequal branches of government. But over 250 years of population growth and dynamic economic change, the country faced new challenges requiring government action. Congress responded with new legislation which created new executive ...