As I prepare to enter my first legislative session in the New York state Assembly, I carry with me the voices, concerns and aspirations of the people who call the North Country home. Our region’s challenges are well known: rising costs, strained infrastructure, workforce shortages, housing ...

Love him or hate him, President Trump commands an inordinate share of our attention. He is easily the most galvanizing politician of my lifetime. But while Trump entertains the MAGA faithful and generates outrage among his opponents, Russell Vought, Scott Bessent, Stephen Miller and others, ...

Most of our project funding is debt. Right now, Saranac Lake’s outstanding water and sewer debt is $21.9 million. Most, not all, of this debt is 0% interest, but it all must be repaid. Our accumulated debt includes such things as the LaPan Avenue sewer line, the Dorsey Street stormwater ...

To the editor: Here is a link to a Canadian version of the television drama “60 Minutes” that features the segment pulled from the Dec. 21 show at the last minute: tinyurl.com/yj9ykmwh. It may not all be new information, but it is a serious enough blot on our rule of law in this ...

$27,500,000, plus. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste that much money. Indeed, $150,000 has been blown already on planning from Wendel Five Bugles. They used our $150K to increase the size of the proposed emergency services building from the original 35,160 square ...

Those who’ve experienced a Bike Adirondacks (BikeADK) event know — because I say it a lot — is that everything we do is designed to get more people riding bikes in the Adirondacks. The biggest way we do that is by featuring the landscape and communities of this special place in a way that ...