I have always lived close to the water. My wife Margaret and I moved to Saranac Lake 10 years ago, and we have lived in the Moody Pond neighborhood ever since. For the 20 years before that, I lived on Lake Chautauqua in Western New York, a much larger lake, surrounded by homes, orchards ...

Even in our community, which I love, I am an outlier. Thanks to history, luck and having chosen the right parents, I ended up white, American and educated. Thanks to all three, I have made a good income, and at 79 I am still working, but only because I love it and can give away most of what I ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in 2020. Whitmer gives Democrats their best chance of winning nationally on Nov. 3. Personally, I’m partial to Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, but I would honestly prefer to have Sen. Warren ...

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin wasn’t just pinning George Floyd to the ground. This wasn’t simply restraining a person. This was incapacitation with intent to harm. Autopsy results are still pending as of this writing, but what I see in the video, is an officer with his knee on ...

Several weeks ago, the leadership of the Lake Placid Business Association became aware of the initiative to close one lane of Main Street for the months of July and August to allow for expanded dining and retail in an effort to help our local businesses. During these unprecedented times, we ...

America is like an alcoholic waking up face-down in the gutter. We wonder how we became a fearful nation with 100,000 dead from COVID-19 as the disease spreads from big cities into small towns. Major corporations are going bankrupt right and left, while a third of small businesses are at risk ...