I’ve battled migraines since my senior year of high school.
I got off the school bus and the first thing I noticed was the freshly raked driveway.
(TNS) — The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier, as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting data on exactly how much protection vaccines provide. Amid the fog, we mustn’t lose sight of a crucial truth: Vaccines still work, and they’re …
First observed in October 1981 as a national “Day of Unity,” Domestic Violence Awareness Month is held each October as a way to unite advocates across the nation in their efforts to end domestic violence. Community and advocacy organizations throughout the country connect with the public and…
In becoming governor Aug. 24, Kathy Hochul told New Yorkers: “A new era of transparency will be one of the hallmarks of my administration.”
A federal court Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s vaccine mandate for the state’s health care workers. There it is: Less than a month in office, the new governor faces a major challenge.
Progressive Perspectives
The following editorial was written by the Daily News Editorial Board of the New York Daily News:
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen back out into the atmosphere, which in return helps the environment “breathe.” That is what science class taught us. So, cutting down trees, acres of trees to install solar arrays for “green energy,” where solar panel arrays don’t release oxygen…
Back in 1928, Herbert Hoover wanted a “car in every garage”. If he were alive today, with that goal realized, his new slogan might be a “kayak in every garage.” Kayaks are everywhere. It seems like everyone has one.
I read with interest Doug Miller’s letter to the editor concerning professional sports athletes, characterizing them as “monkeys truly running the zoo”, in The Daily News (“Bills brotherhood has become a zoo,” Sept. 8).
The 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States brought messages from a variety of elected officials.
It’s easy to overlook all those who serve in the background to make our lives better.
This was written 20 years ago. It seems as if it happened yesterday and it seems as if it happened so long ago.
I wasn’t working as a reporter 20 years ago. Instead, I was in the 5th grade at Eden, a 10-year-old a month away from turning 11.
Text of President George W. Bush’s address to the nation on September 11, 2001
Honor Those Who Died on 9/11 by Vowing to Never Forget
(TNS) - Statistics from Dr. David Prezant, the FDNY’s chief medical officer, show that three out of four firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians who labored on The Pile in the days, weeks and months after 9/11 where the World Trade Center once stood now suffer health ailme…
Saturday will mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States that killed 2,977 innocent people in New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa. One of the victims, Melissa Vincent, was a Le Roy native who worked in the World Trade Center. S…
NEW YORK — In March, a Chinese military satellite appeared to spontaneously disintegrate in orbit, leaving a trail of debris high above the Earth.
All the pressure good-government groups can apply to state lawmakers over the Open Meetings Law can’t reverse the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a clear and present danger. The delta variant has made the coronavirus more contagious and therefore more dangerous.
Some comments and concerns about the front-page headline – “My Body, My Choice” – in the Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, Daily News.
This editorial was published by The Editors of Bloomberg Opinion.
GEORGETOWN, Texas (Tribune News Service) — Generally, I’m not impressed by descriptions of current phenomena in terms of the past.
So you like our present American president? Why? He allows any foreigner into our country with no standards regarding health, allegiance, anything! All these intruders are law breakers and money takers. What help are they to you or I?
No one should have been surprised when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently against the Biden administration in its attempt to implement a moratorium on evictions.
I just loved Bob Confer’s piece, “Newspapers are still indispensable” in The Daily News on Tuesday, Sept. 7. There is nothing like holding a physical newspaper in your hands and reading it. I hope that newspapers never fade away. I subscribe to many of them and enjoy them all.
As you know sports journalism is cluttered with clichés which flaunt a multitude of mysteries which have resulted in athletic achievement. Regardless of the sport, athletic team success is very often hailed as resulting from . . . “the brotherhood of the team”, or the fact that “we are famil…
As summer comes to a close, an old ritual has returned to the GLOW region.
Last week, one of the newspapers I write for, the Lockport Union Sun & Journal, featured a glossy magazine celebrating 200 years of the newspaper.
On this Labor Day, U.S. employers face serious challenges in their quest to resume a normal routine.
(Scott DeSmit is on vacation. Here is a still timely column from 2014. Go DOGE!)
Lies and misinformation campaigns have fueled the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 618,000 Americans — and counting. Social media posts have promulgated conspiracy theories about the origins of the coronavirus, the severity of the pandemic, treatment options, and, of course, vaccines.
This editorial appeared in the Star Tribune on Aug. 30:
Gov. Kathy Hochul wants state health officials to establish COVID-19 testing requirements for unvaccinated school teachers and expand vaccine requirements for health staff. These proposals come with a significant caveat: Hochul wants localities to set their own policies with minimal advice f…
Since state legislators passed the Child Victims Act two years ago, more than 9,000 lawsuits were registered in New York’s e-filing system against sexual predators and organizations accused of enabling them.
(TNS) – Unfortunately, Barack Obama was wrong when he blamed pundits for trying “to slice-and-dice our country into red states and blue states.
The Paycheck Protection Program implemented by the federal government has been a lifeline to many businesses, particularly small operations.
Just about every elected official in New York state has promised transparency when it comes to conducting the public’s business.
Today, we completed the U.S. military evacuation of civilians and the removal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
How does a man promise to provide his personal information, including his name, employment and income to a potential landlord, yet never respond to repeated requests to provide it, remain in the residence for at least 15 months and stiff the renters out of thousands of dollars without fear o…
It’s been a trying time for first responders in Gasport.
On Aug. 9, Canada finally reopened its border to allow fully vaccinated Americans to visit.
(This column originally ran in 2016.)
This editorial was written by the Baltimore Sun Editorial.
