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Editorials and columns

A lesson learned at Rockport

Rockport State Park Recreation Area is a beautiful place to spend time. Hiking, biking, fishing, swimming, lovely views, and much more. I’ve visited Rockport many times, often to hike or bike to the sinkholes or visit a sandy beach that’s tucked away. The path to the sinkholes is ...

Thanksgiving without SNAP

Are you putting food on your table for Thanksgiving? For the 1.4 million state residents who rely on federal food assistance to answer that question, at this read the answer may be no. On Friday of last week that's how this week's installment was headed and it was not going to be ...

Freedom of speech goes both ways

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Before freedom of ...

Mamdani win will ravage entire state

Zohran Mamdani's win Tuesday should send tremors far beyond New York City. A Mamdani victory will ignite wholesale legislative attacks on property owners, charter schools, law enforcement and businesses all across New York state. From Buffalo to Amagansett, nothing will be spared. In New ...

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. On Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned grocery ...

Catalog Season & Christmas Wish List

While growing up this was one of my favorite times of the year – Catalog Season. Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Wards and Spiegel catalogs arrived. Each a couple of inches thick with all the stuff a young lad could need or desire. Over the next month, I’d search those catalogs and make a ...