BY DIANE DIMOND It is way past time to overhaul the U.S. prison system. I’m not talking about a little tweak here and there. I’m talking about throwing a massive metaphorical hand grenade into the entire system and starting over from scratch. We should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing the system to have morphed […]
BY MICHAEL JAMES BARTON The United States is the new Saudi Arabia. At least with regards oil and natural gas deposits. To take full advantage of our nation’s energy bounty, however, the federal government must allow the same kind of careful, responsible exploration and production now occurring on private lands to take place on public […]
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 […]