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Guest Commentary

How has the pandemic affected alcohol use?

As we all know too well, COVID-19 has affected our lives on so many fronts — losing employment, determining how to safely educate our children, and having limited access to family and friends, to name just a few. Underlying all of these changes are additional stress, anxiety and emotional ...

My town

I was saddened and disappointed at the Tupper Lake town board’s decision to be silent on whether displaying the Confederate flag on one’s private property is in the interest of the community. I make no judgments about the rights of individuals to do so. It’s their property, and the ...

Our health is at stake in election

This is not an exaggeration: Your health and the health of everyone you know is at stake in next month’s election if Donald Trump and his Republican supporters in Congress are reelected. Three situations justify this alarming statement. First, more than 210,000 people have died from ...

Stefanik waits for the party line

From late June through September, I asked Elise Stefanik the following questions via her congressional website. All were acknowledged as received. All were ignored. 1. President Trump made the following tweet on June 9. “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. ...

The vice presidential candidate matters less than you think

The myth surrounding the power of vice presidential candidates to sway voters is deeply ingrained in American politics. It is true that, once in office, vice presidents can make policy changes and create lasting impressions on voters, which is helpful if they decide to run for president in ...

America at the crossroads

I would like to begin with a partial quote from a commentary that I wrote in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise more than two years ago, back in Sept. 18, 2018, entitled, “Americans must break with Trump,” largely because it was, at it turns out, a portent of things to come, of where we are ...