Crime

  — Calvin Luther Martin, PhD . Richard Matt.  Dead.  Three slugs to the head.  High velocity, trans-cranial lead therapy.  (A pity it never occurred to the man to perform this procedure on himself.  Like, maybe at age 15, if newspaper accounts of his youth are accurate.  The man is reported to have had a high

—Calvin Luther Martin, PhD This is a story about a Malone neighborhood which is saying “No!” to violent behavior and violent language in our neighborhood. It’s a story about a neighborhood group which is pushing back against the “trashing” of our community by young men and women and teenagers (and even, believe it or not,

—Calvin Luther Martin, PhD Write down that phone number.  I’ll explain why, shortly. In Part 1 of this series, we examined Malone’s drug epidemic, with emphasis on the abuse of “psycho-therapeutics.”  That being the name for prescription medicines for pain or attention problems or sleep problems or panic attacks or anxiety. Many of the psycho-therapeutic

Malone’s drug epidemic and what to do about it —Calvin Luther Martin, PhD . Let’s call him Sean.  I mean the young man in the image, above.  Not so long ago he looked like the picture on the left.  Now all that’s left is the ponytail.  His parents received it in the mail soon after

“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

Detail from Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam,” Sistine Chapel, The Vacitan Zufer Cecunjanin Franklin County Jail Malone, NY Dear Zukie, The parking lot is empty, save for the Mercedes gathering dust.  The building is dark, as if abandoned.  Nothing stirs.  Sorrow, like fog, silently engulfs the place.

—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin ©Press Republican Last week, Burke’s prayers were answered.