To the Editor, On April 8, 2014, I attended the Clarkstown Town Board Meeting. I was absolutely dismayed about what I learned. For several months there have been rumors that the town is considering the sale of Middlewood Village in Nanuet, the only town-owned senior housing complex. Because of this rumor, I began attending town […]
Open Letter to Buffalo School Superintendent Pamela Brown, I implore you to have the decency to resign immediately. You have only added to the chaos and dysfunction of the Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) since your arrival. Morale in every constituency can’t get lower. You do not have the ability to be a Superintendent. On the […]
To the Editor, April 6 – 12 is National Volunteer Week and the American Heart Association would like to celebrate the important work of our dedicated volunteers. This year, our advocacy volunteers in You’re The Cure celebrated the passage of the Pulse Oximetry Law in New York State, which protects the smallest hearts in our […]
To the Editor, A recent prayer request in a small religious magazine brought my own urgent concern home to me. “You can imagine the stress both physical and mental,” the writer commented as she described “moving slowly” out of the family home where she and her brothers and sisters had lived since 1957. In the […]
BY CHERYLYN HARLEY LEBON A New Visions Commentary After he has made such a spectacle of himself in professing that voter protection laws are unnecessary, it was unsettling for Al Sharpton to publicly hug a convicted perpetrator of vote fraud at a public event. Yet, there was Sharpton — hugging Melowese Richardson on March 20. […]
BY PAT BUCHANAN In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond. Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting […]