Did your IRA or 401k double in value in 2023? Sounds impossible? Not if you’re a member of Congress. In 2023 there were more than $1 billion in financial transactions made by members of …
In the New York hush money trial, Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records relating to hush money ($130,000) Michael Cohen, Trump’s then-attorney and “fixer,” …
Once again Vincent Ferro has reared his homophobic head in these pages by referring to the Annual White House Easter Egg Roll as “President Biden’s pornographic and blasphemous …
In Germany, seventy-nine years after World War II, it is illegal to use the language or symbols of the Nazis unless they are used in some sort of educational depiction of how the Nazis were …

Oxymoron

Merriam-Webster defines the term as a combination of contradictory or incongruous words. The Department of Homeland Security was created in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, …

New York Health Act

If you have easy access to your doctors and have consistently good insurance coverage, count yourself among the fortunate. Medicine is in flux; big business has invaded the profession and profits …

Public comment - Not in Montgomery

The first act as Mayor, Mayor Hembury, abolished PUBLIC COMMENT on April 2. I am not aware of any village or town in Orange County that does not allow PUBLIC COMMENT. What a guy, a firm supporter and …

We’re better off with Trump

In his diatribe of April 11, Peter Ericksen deplores Mr. Trump’s promotion of the King James version of the Bible during Holy Week. (Admittedly as a traditionalist Catholic, I would like to see …

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Editorial
In the realm of medical challenges, few adversaries are as formidable as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This relentless neurological disease, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, …
It should be no surprise that the protests over the war in Gaza that have engulfed college campuses across the nation have found their way to the Hudson Valley. SUNY New Paltz is just one of …
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released its 2023 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, an annual assessment aimed at estimating the number of Americans, including veterans, who …

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