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Guest Commentary

Border Patrol Agent murdered

Last month David “Chris” Maland, 44, U.S. Border Patrol Agent and a Veteran, was murdered in the line of duty in Northern Vermont. Last week was the Chinese lunar new year. Time for story in David’s honor and memory. In the summer of 2011 (or 2012?) I was driving to a monthly drill ...

A better approach to child care

Children start to learn in utero, months before birth. They hear their mother sing or talk, and their brain neurons connect to identify separate sounds, or phonemes, like “ma.” During their first year they learn that connected phonemes have meaning, like “mama” means mother, and then ...

Group therapy

Winter Carnival is good group therapy. I thought about this last week as I drove out to Bloomingdale to work on our parade float. I thought about how Carnival brings people together across the many things that divide us. You might go down to Lake Flower to cut and stack ice with friends and ...

Update on Adirondack Health’s sustainability and access to care

With the new year underway, I wanted to provide a general update to our community concerning the work we have been doing to bolster Adirondack Health’s sustainability and expand access to care. As previously communicated, Adirondack Health posted an operating loss in fiscal year 2022 of ...

What is woke?

There has always been a segment of the political class that has maintained power by keeping people frightened and angry enough to vote accordingly when they are promised protection. The United States has plenty of real enemies, but when they are no longer sufficiently scary, politicians invent ...

Peace — it’s not political

I don’t know about everyone else, but I have felt my anxiety rising this week. Whether you are happy or not about the coming change of government and administration of our country, we could all agree that there is still a certain experience of division that lies ahead. Division of beliefs ...