News Flash! Ladies & gentlemen, there’s a new mayor in town. I mean, a new breed of mayor. Mayor Todd LePine. Since publishing the article, below, RiverCityMalone.com has learned that Mayor LePine had himself deputized as a part-time Code Officer. Over the past week, Officer LePine and Officer Charlie Robert have been inspecting slum housing […]
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—Calvin Luther Martin, PhD Have you noticed Malone is dying? Our village has a malignant tumor. We’re being devoured by a cancer killing us street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood. It’s called “slums.” The above building is familiar to most of us. It’s hard to miss. It’s the Jack & Elvira Stewart rental property on
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Reality Check for Malone Municipal Elections —Calvin Luther Martin, PhD . Take a close look at the cartoon. Keep it in mind when you go to the polls November 8th. Courtesy of the Toronto Globe & Mail What’s the take-home message? We elect people to serve on the Village and Town Board, and we expect
· · Joe Riccio. Former Editor of the Malone Telegram. Currently the Communications Manager at the Adirondack Medical Center, Saranac Lake. Several points are immediately obvious. (1) The guy can handle a great mass of information. Digest it, sort it out, weigh its merits, discuss it, present it intelligently and intelligibly, and do it all
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“Smile! You’re on Mandated Camera!” —Op-Ed by Michael Fournier In 1949 George Orwell published “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a fictional portrayal of a totalitarian regime which oversees a collectivist society in a land called Airstrip One—a place of perpetual war, government surveillance, government mind control, and the end of civil liberty. The book was a bombshell. The
Just when you thought you’d seen the last of Hinckley & Quirke—they’re back! No kidding! Same two guys. New gig. Different wheels. (We hope they bring back the Hummer. Made them real easy to spot. They were worth keeping track of.) Charles “Chuck” Hinckley, lately of “Noble Environmental LLC” They call themselves American Wind Capital.
Okay, here’s a quiz. What’s the difference between this . . . Hotel Flanagan, Village of Malone And this . . . 69 Fort Covington, Village of Malone
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Robert Bryce Once you’ve carpeted the wilderness with wind-farm turbines, and crushed any guilt about the birds you’re about to kill, prepare to be underwhelmed and underpowered. —Trevor Butterworth, Wall St. Journal 4/27/10 (with appreciation) Al Gore has a dream, a dream increasingly shared, according to opinion surveys, by people all over the world. It
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Just when you thought you knew Councilman Jack Sullivan—he suddenly stands up at a town meeting—rips open his shirt—Oh My God! The Man of Steel! RCM did some old-fashioned, Clark Kent kind of investigative sleuthing, and we’ve got the evidence. (Once again, RCM scoops The Telegram!) . . .
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“I would compare my relationship with the wind developer to a relationship with the Devil himself. [Sheldon] is another example of why industrial wind farms do not belong anywhere near people”—Glenn Cramer, Town Councilor (Sheldon, NY). Editor: The following letter was written 10/30/09 by Sheldon, NY, Town Councilman Glenn Cramer, responding to a letter (click
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One day a North Country farm girl went off to college and was pleased as punch. Mary Scharf goes to college Notice the stack of books. And the smile. This was one determined kid. The kind who earned awards like this (mind you, the task of merely getting to school was often a challenge in
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· Ron Benware, candidate for Malone Town Highway Superintendent This man plays with these . . .
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A warm summer evening. Fair Week. The stands jam-packed. The excitement is palpable. A rhythm & blues legend is about to perform. The crowd explodes in applause as four young men take their position on stage. Four singers who will be inducted, seven years later, into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of
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—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin Timothy Chase lives in Chateaugay in a house with big fat liens on it. And I warn you right now this is going to be a sad story and if you don’t like sad stories stop reading right now.
Frank Cositore, President Flanagan Hotel UICC Holding LCC Malone, NY Dear Frank, I think you’re not telling this community everything we need to know. Plus, I think you’re beginning to harm this community. Hence this letter.
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» To the Franklin County Fair Board: We, the undersigned, ask that you switch the location of the beer tent. From its usual spot to a new one, such as the other side of the grandstand (near the entrance in front of the NCCC campus). Doesn’t matter where, so long as it’s moved from its
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The exploding and burning of Noble Environmental’s turbine was not its first disaster. Cheryl LeClair (Altona, NY) describes an experience equally calamitous.
—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin A day or so before Thanksgiving, ComLinks CEO Nancy Reich was pulled over by a trooper during a pre-holiday traffic check—a public safety measure aimed at keeping the roads safe for the family, above, from the homicidal threat of drunk drivers.
—Michael Fournier, Guest Editor President Obama makes many a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous admonition, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” Being the great orator he is, Obama has taken FDR’s line and edited it a bit. The words from this President that will be remembered for the next generations are, “We have
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—Floyd Norris, Chief Financial Correspondent, NY Times ©The Towerlight (Photo by Jennifer Szymaszek/Associated Press) February 9, 2009 I’ve been looking at the unemployment numbers that came out Friday [2/6/09], and a couple of things stand out. Even though unemployment is rising rapidly—meaning there are a lot of people losing their jobs—long-term unemployment is also up a
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—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin Adapted from photo © Jochen Siegle (TechShowNetwork), with appreciation If someone polled Americans with the question, “What’s the best federal agency of all,” the hands down winner surely would be the United States Postal Service. Yup, the Post Office. If the man pictured above gets his way, the Post Office
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—Calvin Luther Martin, PhD Detail from dust jacket of “The Horse in Art,” John Baskett David Minnich, Director of the Wead Library, was honored this week by a gift of books from Dr. Nina Pierpont (my better half). Pierpont made the gift to celebrate Mr. Minnich’s century of service as Librarian. (If not a
—Mike Fournier, Guest Editor “The Silent Grey Fellow” (1909). Good on gas. Good on global warming. Find one. Ride one. USA should manufacture them. Creates jobs. In his essay on “FDR and the Great Depression,” reprinted below, Russell Baker says, “Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he [Roosevelt] was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted
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—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books The following article appeared in the NY Review of Books 2/12/09 issue, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Russell Baker. As America plunges into a deep recession which leading leading economists (including Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman) believe could resemble the Great Depression in severity, it’s worth taking stock
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