Opinion & Blogs
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5.1KColumn | Despite financial hardships, people still want local journalism
When a newspaper closes, it’s just as sad as when the big factory in town closes, or when that family restaurant on the corner is...
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7.7KColumn | Cuomo will never win a popularity contest, yet he keeps winning gubernatorial elections
It’s been just seven months since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sailed to a third term as chief executive of the Empire State. And he’s...
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6.0KColumn | Never Forget: Sacrifices made by the Greatest Generation on D-Day led to 75 years of world peace
In the news headlines of June 6, 2019, was an American president’s state visit to London, an agreement between the United States and Japan...
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5.3KColumn | It’s time for Trump to release his tax returns
In the last few weeks, we’ve heard President Donald Trump say repeatedly that he is “the most transparent president in history.” The...
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9.1KBlog | Love Thy Celestial Neighbor
For more than 70 years, our government has been tight-lipped about the nature of UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence among us. In...
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5.0KColumn | NY should take the slow road on marijuana legalization
In February 2017, soon after states like neighboring Massachusetts and Vermont had legalized recreational marijuana, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reiterated his...
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4.7KColumn | Protect workers; amend the WARN Act
No one would ever want to show up to work one day, then find out that their place of employment had suddenly closed its doors and that...
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11.2KBlog | UFO disclosure numbers tell a story
So this guy comes up to me and says, “Hey, Costa! You’ve got no PROOF of real alien craft coming here.” I...
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5.4KColumn | State law should strip funds from corrupt politicians who abused their power
It was four years ago this month when New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested along with his son...
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5.2KColumn | Squabbling over community grid proposal will only delay I-81 problem
The New York state Department of Transportation has released its long-awaited draft environmental impact statement that named the community grid as its...
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4.8KColumn | Party leaderships want to discourage challengers, protect incumbents
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from an absolute nobody to one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year after defeating...
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7.9KBlog | The UFO Comfort Factor: How close is too close?
Recently I was a speaker at the weeklong immersion event UFOMegacon in Laughlin, Nevada, where I spoke with lots of attendees and...
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4.6KColumn | Georgia’s proposed journalism ethics bill would interfere with government accountability
For quite some time now, many people in power have launched seemingly never-ending attacks on the media, from denouncing anonymous sources, to...
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3.7KColumn | Mass shootings are not as far away as we are led to believe
Maybe our failure to curb mass shootings in the U.S. is because we rely on that “it can’t happen here” sentiment, even though it keeps...
