Many people were surprised to learn the recent killing of a 29-year-old Memphis Black man came at the hands of five Black police officers. In a 2018 Harvard Law Review article, “The Black Police: Policing Their Own,” Dennis Carbado (UCLA School of Law) and L. Song Richardson (UC Irvine ...

Established in 2015, the Saranac Lake Turkey Trot began as a simple means of developing community, raising dollars, and promoting a little cold weather exercise on a day of feasting and gratitude. Over these last eight years though, it has grown to become so much more. In the inaugural year, ...

Regarding the proposed Petrova Avenue emergency services building: This project has been described by the mayor as a “100-year solution” to the challenges that all three village emergency services are facing, according to the recent Enterprise article (“Village eyes Petrova Ave property ...

It had been a while since my parents divorced. My mother moved younger brother Joe and I from Long Island to Saranac Lake in hopes for us to be closer to our dad. I was 2, Joe was 1. Three or four years went by, and when the day came, we were passing Lake Colby headed into town. I rolled my ...

Have you ever been told you’re different? I mean really “different”? Not having a different view of something or a different opinion, but “different.” I certainly have, many times. It was always said in a condescending tone of voice, which left nothing to the imagination. It meant ...

From an article in the British Columbia Medical Journal: The practice of bloodletting began around 3,000 years ago … It was believed that existence was represented by the four basic elements—earth, air, fire, and water—which in humans were related to the four basic humors: Blood, ...