Journalism takes its practitioners to some strange places. It took me to Willits one gray winter morning almost 30 years ago in response to a…
Posts published in July 2023
There are those who would argue that the West should have been left pretty much as it was. At the distant other end of the…
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In late April Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that he is running for President, challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination. In May a poll…
As a kid I loved carnivals. They were bright, flashy and noisy, and everywhere you looked there was a promise of instant gratification: eat this,…
(The late professor John ‘Joe’ B. Neilands, his wife Juanita who retired and lived in Philo for years, and their son Tor were good friends…
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It might come as a surprise to some readers of this space that there were a couple of genuine, if minor, bright spots in Tuesday’s…
The turn-off from New York State Route 86 towards the parking lot at the northern entrance to the Adirondacks High Peaks Wilderness comes in the…