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Why should men be given a free pass?

State Rep. Chris Rabb definitely got our attention. Is he serious about forcing men over 40 or with three kids to get vasectomies?That鈥檚 a little unsettling. Many of us get really alarmed at talk about forcing a man to do anything with his own body 鈥 wear a mask or get a vaccination, let ...

As much as we look back with gauzy nostalgia on the days when mom was waiting at home to greet children when they returned from school, that鈥檚 not something that happens all that much in the United States anymore. Part of the reason is that a large slice of American families simply can鈥檛 ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The Rev. Tracey Gardone of Greene County has coordinated a creative fundraising initiative that will help others in their fight against cancer, as well as honor the legacy of his daughter, Tiffany Rose, who passed away in 2019 following her ...

In the early 1960s, when President John F. Kennedy was fruitlessly trying to get Congress to implement a plan to provide federal health insurance for America鈥檚 seniors, more than half of them did not have any coverage at all and were left to fend for themselves as medical costs inexorably ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> W.A. Young &amp; Sons Foundry and Machine Shop in Rices Landing, Greene County, recently wrapped up a major renovation project that consisted of multiple phases, including replacing broken windows and a sagging interior wall, ...

Sometimes abstention is right call

People attending a school board or municipal government meeting often are puzzled when a member of one of those elected bodies chooses to abstain from voting on a particular agenda item or issue.Perhaps, most of those people soon learn that the abstention was the means by which the member in ...