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An eyesore at our gateway To the editor: I was pleased to read in this past weekend's newspaper that someone, albeit a federal agency, HUD, has finally addressed the appalling conditions that exist within the Highland/Holland apartment complex. I ...
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A quarter-century ago, 65 percent of Americans thought interracial marriage was unacceptable for themselves or for other people. Yet in the span of a generation, as intermarriage has become more common and the United States has grown more racially di ...
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By Heather E. Harris The Baltimore Sun Oscar nominee Viola Davis is featured on the cover of the February issue of the LA Times Magazine. While the article focuses on her work as an actor, mentor and soon-to-be producer, I think the real stor ...
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There's an old joke about putting money in your pocket with your left hand, removing it with your right and then counting the transaction as savings. That anecdote illustrates the fallacy of President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for 2013, w ...
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By DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times When this year's presidential campaign began, Rick Santorum looked like a fringe candidate, consigned permanently to the outside edge of an overcrowded debate stage. But as earlier conservative front-runners ...
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Tired of taking a political beating over a soon-to-expire cut in payroll taxes, House Republican leaders announced last week that they're willing to keep the lower rate in place through the end of 2012 with no strings attached. That means the temp ...
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A lot of you probably knew the late Robert Harold, aka Bobby O'Brien, who at one time hosted an Irish and country music show on local radio and owned the Millenium Music store on Route 30 in the town of Amsterdam. He was also a fan of the local blog ...
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One of my earliest Adirondack adventure memories is going on the "big-game hunt" with my cousin, Roy. He was a few years older than I was, and, in many ways, was my mentor. He shared much of a boy's life with me. It was a big treat for a little cousi ...
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A lot of you probably knew the late Robert Harold, aka Bobby O'Brien, who at one time hosted an Irish and country music show on local radio and owned the Millenium Music store on Route 30 in the town of Amsterdam. He was also a fan of the local blog ...
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By JOHN METALLO For the Recorder Last week, President Obama officially declared the federal No Child Left Behind legislation dead. The administration of President George W. Bush sold N.C.L.B. to the legislature in 2002 with an eye on bringing ...
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We're encouraged to hear that a combined public-private partnership is making progress on a marketing plan aimed at promoting Fulton and Montgomery counties. The partnership involves the public Montgomery County Industrial Development Agency and th ...
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Out of money; out of time To the editor: Attached is a copy of an open letter I have sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Dear Gov. Cuomo: I am writing to you today to request your assistance. This year, my district and other small rural school distric ...
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The big-picture reasoning behind President Barack Obama's 2013 budget is solid: This economic recovery is too fragile, and too many are teetering on the edge of falling out of the middle class, for immediate government austerity. The president is c ...
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Yahoo education writer Terence Loose probably didn't expect a firestorm when he published an article entitled, "College Majors that are Useless." The young man, whose Facebook page claims that he studied film and TV at UCLA, probably didn't expect an ...
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It has been a month since Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that he would draft his own system to root out bad teachers if the state Education Department and teachers unions didn't make a deal on substantive reform. He offered a one-month deadline. Time's up. ...
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Amsterdam City Controller Ronald Wierzbicki walked into quite a mess when he took over in January as the city's chief financial officer. In fact, it's so bad that City Hall doesn't even know how much money it has to get through the fiscal year, nor c ...
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The train has run off the tracks To the editor: As we tick toward Election Day 2012, there seems to be a fairy tale type mantra being told by our media. When someone becomes an elected official, the things they say in front of the cameras, q ...
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Ah, the middle of February. We all know what that means: Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue has arrived. And that means some folks, such as those in the American Decency Association (ADA), will voice concerns about exploitation of women. "Sports ...
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Given the continued carnage in Syria, and given Russian and Chinese obstruction of a plan to have Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside, the Arab League, Western nations and the United Nations secretary-general are scrambling to identify other mea ...
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Just as scientists are announcing a breakthrough in their understanding of how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain, robbing its sufferers of memories and cognitive functioning, the Obama administration is proposing a dramatic increase in federal fu ...
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It seems to me that what is missing in the top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination is passion. While Ron Paul speaks with passion of the Federal Reserve and Rick Santorum speaks with passion about life, Newt Gingrich speaks pa ...
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Taxpayers can't afford more To the editor: I recently read the article in which the Broadalbin-Perth School Superintendent was whining about not having enough money in the budget this year and how he cannot possibly come under the cap as proposed ...
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Once again, Catholic bishops -- and conservative Republicans -- are trying to make a "religious liberty" issue out of the provision of nondiscriminatory health-insurance coverage to women by falsely equating contraception with abortion. In a policy ...
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Get this: men and women are different. Italian researchers made this "groundbreaking" discovery in a recent study. According to Psych Central, the study, led by Marco Del Giudice, Ph.D., of the University of Turin, used "new and more accurate met ...
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By JOHN METALLO For the Recorder It has become obvious that Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to dismantle and reconstruct the public school system in New York state. Further, he wants to implement his own version of teacher evaluation. It is also insta ...
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