Syracuse Blogs

Column | Bipartisan Band-Aid: Parties must compromise on health care

If representatives make a health care plan with bipartisan support, maybe the very issue that established our modern political division can be...

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Column | Sears’ Sad Legacy: It treated its employees too well

The demise of retail giant Sears after it filed for bankruptcy in October 2018 is an example of what happens when you...

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Column | 3 Men and a State Budget: Albany’s March Madness

This year, a whole bunch of policies were lined up for the New York State Budget process, but that’s not the way...

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Column | Trump plays Great Lake residents for suckers

President Donald Trump has taken credit for raising funds for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — something he originally wanted to slash.

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Blog | Timing is everything for UFO observations

As a UFO researcher and journalist, folks frequently ask me about when people observe UFOs. I usually smile and reply, “That’s not...

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Column | Ante Maim: NYC casinos will deal huge blow to Upstate economy

New York City may be the next gambler — and next victim — to ante up to the delusion that casinos are...

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Column | The rise of pro-socialism shows where capitalism needs fixes

“Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” President Donald Trump said in his State of...

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Column | JCOPE ethics panel fails as government watchdogs

"JCOPE? More like JOKE. The panel, unsurprisingly, is appointed by the very politicians that it is supposed to include in its oversight.

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Blog | Is ‘The 37th Parallel’ really the UFO Super Highway?

My gut opinion has been that I didn’t think the theory of "the 37th Parallel" would hold up to statistical science. I...

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Column | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Upstate, Downstate Divide

Splitting New York State in two isn't a new idea, but it may be more complicated -- and potentially damaging -- than...

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Column | So-called political crises can lead to abuses of power

An emergency room is appropriately titled. We are always there for something serious and urgent. We don’t call it a “mild illness...

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Column | Bernie Sanders is being underestimated — again

Bernie Sanders, the candidate who captured progress hearts in 2016, is more than capable of doing it again in the 2020 presidential...

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Blog | UFO Data: What it has and doesn’t have on what’s out there

When Linda Miller Costa and I published our UFO Sightings Desk Reference book in spring 2017, a curious thing happened. We began...

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Column | End career politicians by implementing Congressional term limits

The people of the United States will always disagree on how large a role the federal government should have. But they’re much...