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Guest Commentary

The $35M public safety project is needed

Dear neighbors, I’m genuinely excited about the possibility of a new public safety complex here in Saranac Lake. Projects like this touch all of us, and the conversations — whether on Facebook or in the pages of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise — help us sort out what’s real, what’s ...

Cult of power, gospel of hate

Imagine entering a church and immediately seeing a life-size crucifix on the main altar — Christ hanging upside down and facing backwards. Yet this rendition of Christianity’s most important symbol is an apt description of White Nationalist MAGA Christianity (WNMC): upside down and ...

Is the village being bamboozled?

Saranac Lake residents who have seen the latest plan to build an emergency services facility at 33 Petrova Ave. might wonder how this 59,000 square-foot project — including 120 interior rooms and a half kilometer of hallways for a combined 83-person fire, rescue and police force — ever got ...

Gold hit $4,300/ounce. How can that affect us?

Twenty-five years ago, gold was $275 an ounce. Recently, it hit $4300 an ounce. Each dollar (to buy gold) is worth less than 1/15th of what it was in the year 2000. Our exports will thus be cheaper. But we don’t manufacture much anymore (military and some other things aside). Like Venezuela, ...

Outdoor safety in times of increasingly hazardous weather events

My background is in natural resources. I have a master of science degree in forest resources protection from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. As the fall camping season is now coming to a close, I’ve decided to put my growing concerns over a worsening climate into a ...

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Day of Remembrance occurs annually on Nov. 20, a day to memorialize those who have been killed or murdered as a result of transphobia (hatred or fear of transgender and gender non-conforming/non-binary people). We also remember those who died because of suicide. This day serves to ...