After 9/11, the police and fire departments were heroes. Now, a little over 20 years later, law enforcement has been villainized. Of late, there has been talk of defunding the police department and funding more social workers. While the idea of finding more funding for social workers to help ...

Chattel slavery is a system of bondage wherein human beings are the property of their owners. Slaves can be legally sold, beaten, tortured, raped, worked to death or killed as their owners see fit. While terrorism is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological ...

I’ve heard the saying that “revenge is sweet.” But is it? Is it really “sweet”? And, if so, how long does that sweetness last? I believe, at the most, it’s momentary before we gasp at what we really have done. And do our words or our actions show who we really are? Is that how we ...

Let’s admit it: Donald Trump is a genius. He has managed to convince many of us that he actually cares about us. Yes, he intuitively understands that many of us may feel looked down on and dismissed. We may be dismayed at the non-responsiveness and corruption in our political system. He ...

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise recently ran an article from North Country Public Radio, “Meet the only St. Lawrence County midwife who delivers babies at home,” comparing home births in St. Lawrence County with hospital births at Canton-Potsdam Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical ...

The Ice Palace is a staple — THE staple — of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. The very name imbues wonder and magic into the air. But it doesn’t appear by magic. It takes a lot of hard work from a lot of volunteers to build the palace on the shore of Lake Flower. These folks go by the ...