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Past articles by Tom:

Letter: I love my all-electric home

Dear Editor, Building electrification is a necessary part of mitigating the climate crisis, but the fossil fuel industry is putting out a lot of misinformation, like: “The grid can’t support … → Read More

Letter: Help with Snow Moon Festival in Saugerties

Dear Editor: We have been working hard to plan our events to “light up Saugerties” during the Snow Moon Festival February 3 to 5, 2023. So, we are asking for a little help. We would lo… → Read More

Mid-Hudson Valley meetings schedule: Week of Dec. 19, 2022

Ulster County Monday • Laws, Rules and Government Services Committee, 4 p.m., Karen L. Binder Library, sixth floor, Ulster County Office Building, 244 Fair St., Kingston. • Energy, Environment and … → Read More

Tom Purcell: Truth is, we like to be lied to

My dog Thurber has been lying to me. It only figures, because it’s impossible to avoid mistruths these days. We just exited a miserable election cycle in which truth-stretching, name-calling and vo… → Read More

Cartoonist’s take: Dec. 3, 2022: COVID misinformation

Cartoonist’s take: Dec. 3, 2022: COVID misinformation → Read More

Cartoonist’s take: Dec. 2, 2022: Tree warmth

We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law,… → Read More

LETTER: Trump haters won’t turn MAGA Americans against him

Dear Editor, For your information, all the Trump bashing, the digging, the hatchet panels, the kangaroo courts, the microscopic dissections, the haters will NOT turn MAGA Americans against him, so… → Read More

Cartoonist’s take: Sept. 11, 2022: Water is high

We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law,… → Read More

The Capitol Connection: Suozzi takes the gloves off in primary contest with Hochul

You gotta like Tom Suozzi. I know that I do. He really wants to be governor of New York. If he were on a Little League team, he would be the kid described as having “a lot of heart.” He gets up the… → Read More

Michael Reagan: Thank God I was adopted, not aborted

Forget inflation, forget Ukraine, forget the crashing stock market. Thanks to a troublemaking leak by some jerk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion is dominating the front pages of our media ag… → Read More

Michael Reagan: Boo-hoo for Hollywood

What happened the other night at the Academy Awards show really saddened me. After all, I’m a child of Hollywood as much as I am a child of politics. My mother, Jane Wyman, was a major player in Ho… → Read More

Letter: Raise state’s income cap for senior tax break

Dear Editor, This year, tax exemptions for limited-income seniors are lower than ever. Each year, annual cost-of-living adjustments increase Social Security incomes. But for limited-income seniors … → Read More

Letter: We’re in this together, but only if you can hear

Dear Editor, The recent ice storm outing power in Ulster County was a wakeup call for access for deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) people, which includes the elderly with hearing loss who are largely… → Read More

Letter: We need to save Standard Time

Dear Editor, We need to end Daylight Saving Time (DST) and restore permanent Standard Time in our state. This is federally pre-approved by the Uniform Time Act. Enactment can be immediate or contin… → Read More

Letter: Daylight Savings Time euphoria probably won’t last

To the Editor: The euphoria over the U.S. Senate decision to make daylight savings time permanent should last about eight months. That is when we will be going to work and school in the dark. Your … → Read More

Mid-Hudson Valley arrests report: Feb. 14, 2022

Ulster County Monday • Ulster County Community Services Board, 5 p.m., online teleconference via Zoom. Meeting ID: 843 9989 2283. Passcode: 897625. By phone, call (646) 558-8656. • Ulster County Bo… → Read More

Letter: We cave to the whiners at the nation’s peril

Dear Editor, I’m angry and disappointed that officials are ignoring the science and ending the mask mandate. We are in a deadly war, but keep caving into the whiners. We have over 900,000 killed. T… → Read More

Letter: Democrats deliver, Democrats build

Dear Editor, President Biden’s poll ratings currently are suffering, in large part because of the mess he inherited and the huge task of extricating the country out of it. The process will take tim… → Read More

Michael Reagan: Here’s to the freedom fighters

It’s not masks that those rebel Canadian truckers are against. It’s not the COVID vaccines or boosters one, two and three, either. The truckers (who reportedly are 90 percent vaxxed) and millions o… → Read More

Alan Chartock: Time for your annual mid-year exam from the Professor

Okay, here comes your mid-year exam. This will be a true or false test. Mark your papers T or F, and please, keep your eyes off your neighbor’s paper. T or F: As per most political observers believ… → Read More