MY VIEW

An attempt to control what gets reported is an attempt to control what you know. You can fight back.

When someone in a position of power moves to punish or shut out independent reporting, it’s often viewed as another media story—an argument between politicians and journalists, happening …

A critical lifeline

‘Axing landline service is like building a passenger ship with no lifeboats’ [Ed. note: Thomas Steed, chairman of the Association of BellTel Retirees (which represents thousands of retirees …

Counterpoint: China’s not a competitor, it’s an adversary

Is China a competitor—or an adversary? The distinction matters because competitor implies a contest governed by rules. Competitors agree to play the same game, use common …

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Jonathan Fritz

Point: China is a competitor for now

Xi Jinping sees the United States as the primary obstacle to China’s ultimate ambitions: communism’s victory over capitalism, the forced “re-unification” of Taiwan, and China’s return to …

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25 years later

The first plane is already ash. You sit outside the school gathering your wits, your breath, your heartbeat to present yourself to your daughter being beckoned right now by her teachers to gather her …

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Letters to the editor

Lend a hand in return

I want to publicly recognize two people who have quietly made a big difference in the lives of local residents here in Wayne County. From the early days of June, 2026, when the threat of …

Gillian Kaiser endorsed in Forestburgh

As Forestburgh representatives on the Sullivan County Democratic Committee, we want our neighbors to know that Forestburgh Democrats have endorsed Gillian Kaiser for town supervisor on the ballot in …

Concerning the elimination of copper landlines

We have submitted a comment letter to the FCC concerning Verizon’s application to discontinue copper-based landline telephone service (Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS) in the State of New …

Public hearings need to be held

Assemblyman Joseph Angelino is calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) to hold public hearings in the wake of the news that Verizon is …

Time for competence, honesty in Congress

I’m supporting Paige Cognetti for Congress because she has proven she knows how to stop public corruption. As mayor, she ended the need to have “connections” to get city contracts or a …

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OPINION

Scouting opportunities available at PEEC

DINGMANS FERRY — Many people think of the Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) as a place for school trips or as a hiking area; however, PEEC also offers many opportunities for Scouts. …

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The purpose of the Circle of Aunts and Uncles is to create a funding ecosystem so new, small and local businesses can get on their feet.

The Circle of Aunts and Uncles

What’s a micro-loan fund? Let’s find out. In 2020, right before COVID-19 transformed communities across the globe, The Wayne County Community Foundation established the NEPA …

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COLUMNS

river talk

Autumnal equinox sightings

ramblings of a catskill fly fisher

The other river creatures

in my humble opinion

The autumn leaves…

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Reap what you sow

Otto Scharmer, of the Presencing Institute, has coined the phrase the social soil. For as much as we all understand that the biosphere.keeps our environment healthy, enhancing the social …

Time, time, time

With the rate of change, time seems to be moving very swiftly. For me, weeks fly by in the blink of an eye. According to social scientist Peter Russell, the experience of time is due to …

Falling down. Getting up.

I was fortunate to go on a pilgrimage to Turkey in 2008. It was part of my seminary education -- and a group of 14 or so seminary students traveled to Istanbul and Konya in December to study the …

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BLOGS

The hard choice

I have often been told that misery loves company, and agony can be your best teacher. Not surprisingly, according to psychologist Noam Shpancer, the outcome of a tough dilemma is predicated on our …

Creating a market

Someone recently told me, when complaining about the overreach of federal mandates, most specifically phasing out gas stoves in new construction among other ideas, that these types of changes ought …

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