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Opinion

Listen to your constituents

Letters to the editor

To the editor: The following is an open letter to Elise Stefanik. Dear Congresswoman Stefanik: Now that you are back on the job for NY-21, it is imperative that you do your part to safeguard the wellbeing of your constituents and their families. As you can see from the tremendous ...

We shouldn’t do away with fluoride

Letters to the editor

To the editor: It’s so painful to hear that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water. I’m old enough to remember what it was like visiting the dentist before there was such a thing as fluoride ...

Unnecessary photo on the front page

Letters to the editor

To the editor: With due respect for Lance Cpl. Farnsworth’s recognition for his exceptional service to our country, I am critical of the editorial decision to place a photograph of a young child with his finger on the trigger of an assault rifle on the front page of the April 15 issue ...

The best decision ever

Guest Commentary

April is a time of beginnings. It is the traditional start of the baseball season, the opening of trout season and, in the North Country, the beginning of spring. It is a month that symbolically and literally recognizes the impact of investments made today on our future, individually and ...

History of depression

Letters to the editor

To the editor: “Black Thursday,” Oct. 24, 1929, was the worst depression in history. President Hoover did not understand the plight of Americans — so much for a “business man” trying to run our country. In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected by a landslide. He ...