To the editor: While skiing in Fowler’s Crossing this week, my credit card decided to take its annual sabbatical in the snow. On any given day, my coat pockets tend to contain a mixture of loose change, my credit card, a Walgreens receipt, a green Skittle, and a crumpled yellow hallway ...
Democrats, historians, independent journalists and concerned citizens are raising the alarm. “Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes didn’t really happen, our democracy is lost.” The Republican Party continues to reshape visual truth with rhetoric ...
To the editor: Last Sunday, P.S. Letters for Ceasefire hosted a viewing of “No Other Land” at the Saranac Lake Library. This documentary offers a heart-wrenching depiction of the destruction of West Bank Palestinian communities by the Israeli military, and the story of an unlikely ...
As the locals know, the Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected state park, at six million acres. Because it is so large and widely protected, taking care of it is very important for wildlife, the environment and local communities within it. The small town of Saranac Lake is in ...
Recent commentary about village board meetings has focused on tone and personalities. That framing avoids the real issue. The true measure of effective local government is not whether disagreement is comfortable, but whether it is handled through a fair, fact-based and consistently enforced ...
To the editor: In 2009, Peter Thiel wrote in an essay for the Cato Institute: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Peter Theil is the founder and head of Palantir Technologies, a software company with billions of dollars of government contracts. Palantir ...