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Guest Commentary

How crime victims keep their offenders behind bars

Victims’ testimony, a time-honored part of the American criminal prosecution process, has sent thousands of New York offenders to prison. But justice is not advanced when, years later, crime victims are called again to give emotionally charged encores, moments before parole panel members ...

A cold air blast from the past

Take a moment and try to place yourself in the spring of 1976. You might not have known it, and you probably wish you did, but Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne form Apple Computer. Other events include the $2 bill is reintroduced in circulation by the United States Treasury. And, the ...

Camelot we are not

Joe Biden’s inauguration fell on the 60th anniversary of perhaps the most famous presidential inauguration, that of John F. Kennedy on Jan. 20, 1961. With political and cultural divisions roiling the nation, one can be forgiven for nostalgically looking back at the former event. ...

Non-union businesses locked out of bidding to rebuild Olympic oval

(Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a letter Jeff Luck sent to Matthew Lynch of the state Olympic Regional Development Authority and Christian Calabrese of Gilbane, regarding Luck’s construction company’s bid to reconstruct the Olympic Speedskating Oval in Lake ...

Let’s Red Ball the vaccines

My father, Capt. George Weber, commanded a field company of what was known as the Red Ball Express in World War II. Formed to sustain continuous supply lines for Gen. Patton’s Third Army and other American forces as they raced across Europe toward Germany, the Red Ball Express took men like ...

Raising honest children

St. Bernard’s School has a prayer service led by one of the kindergarten through fifth grades each Friday to crown the week. The fifth-grade students in Mrs. Danielle Fitzgerald’s class recently focused on the school’s monthly virtue of honesty. In preparation, each student had drawn ...