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Guest Commentary

Do you have a dream?

Do you have a dream? I don’t mean, “do you dream at night,” as when you retire for the evening and sleep away the hours. I mean, “Do you have a dream?” Like, “someday, I want to be a ...” or “someday, I want to go to ...” or “someday, I hope ...” The dreams or wishes we ...

What happened to Elise Stefanik?

Has Rep. Elise Stefanik lost her way? Perhaps not. It is more likely that Ms. Stefanik actually has found her way, summed up in two sets of just three words: “Party Before Country” and “Devoted to Trump.” This was not always the case. The transformation of Elise Stefanik, now 38, ...

Wilmington deserves clarity, Part II: A call for compromise

At a recent special Wilmington town board meeting there was much talk about working together and repairing the tension and division that have surfaced in town. If our town board is serious about this desire, it has the opportunity to take a step toward the many Wilmington voters who believe ...

Wilmington deserves clarity

Wilmington deserves clarification about topics raised in a recent column by town Supervisor Roy Holzer. Those who read the supervisor’s column (titled “Standing by our approach to STR regulations” and published in the Enterprise on July 14) may have the impression that he is willing to ...

A bogus crusade for political power

While members of the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty (BJCRL) and members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) do not have much in common, they ardently support the separation of church and state. Their joint report on Christian nationalism (CN) and the Jan. 6, 2021 ...

Contemporary populism

I find Mr. Edelberg’s guest commentary “An attempt to revise history” (Enterprise, Aug. 12) to be misleading. Yes, Thomas Jefferson was a great founding father of our country, but he did own slaves and fathered several children by one. Yes, Kate Smith called for racial tolerance in 1945 ...