Click on the image, above, to play. In the new window that pops up, click in the middle of the red box, where it says “Play.” (Ignore the website itself. This version of the cartoon was widely available a year ago, Xmas 2007, but seems to have disappeared from the web this year–except on this […]
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—Op-Ed by Jack Sullivan, MS Editor’s note: This article is reprinted with minor revisions from The Empire Page, 12/13/08. Our appreciation to Mr. Sullivan and TEP. Adapted from www.plataformahorta.org, with appreciation Many NYS politicians, members of the media and environmentalists see wind power as an all-encompassing solution to global warming, energy independence, and much needed job
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—Carl E. Person, JD Editor’s note. The following article was submitted by Attorney Carl E. Person after several months of correspondence between him and RCM. Mr. Person’s local bailout package is a provocative concept. “Radical” would be another way to describe it. As would “populist” (in no way a pejorative word). Anyhow, read it and
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—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin Amish community building (photographer unknown) The New School Blues. I’ve got ’em bad. The “new school” being my shorthand for the Malone School District’s two-phase school renovation & construction project. Whose advertising blitz in the Telegram is surpassed only by the daily series of approving articles by Connie Jenkins, the
—Calvin Luther Martin Watercolor (artist unknown) First, click here to listen to this tape-recorded message. I took it off my telephone answering machine a little over a week ago.
Roosevelt’s Brain Trust vs Obama’s Brainiacs —Steve Fraser Historian Steven Fraser compares our present economic crisis to the Great Depression. Along the way he discusses President-elect Obama’s options with those available to FDR. Fraser’s essay is worthwhile reading for us in the North Country as we contemplate our future, both near-term and long-term, and as we
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