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In the last three weeks, we have asked you to support community newspapers, to vote with your heart and values, and to support the local business community by recognizing and expressing your …
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By LAURIE STUART
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11/11/20
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In the last two weeks, we’ve used this space to ask you to vote for local papers: to become a subscriber and to support the businesses that advertise in our pages.
We asked you to vote …
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By LAURIE STUART
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11/4/20
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It’s ironic to me, as I reel from the plethora of political messages, that it is the foundational law that makes our democracy that has the capacity to destroy it.
What law?
The First …
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By LAURIE STUART
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10/28/20
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Newspapers face another big election.
It’s about them.
While the United States is riveted by a most unusual presidential election, the newspaper industry is running to win the hearts, …
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By TOM SILVESTRI
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10/21/20
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There are many people who watch over the town.
It starts on the town level with the town board: the elected officials who do the business of the town. These folks receive a stipend. They are our …
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By LAURIE STUART
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9/23/20
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The importance of the Census cannot be overstated. The demographic information that it collects determines who gets how much political power in Congress and in the states. The numbers steer more than …
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By LAURIE STUART
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9/16/20
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The smell of money was in the air.
In December 2015, with great fanfare, Millennium Pipeline announced its Eastern System Upgrade. They boasted that they would be spending $275,000,000 on the …
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By GEORGE BILLARD
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9/9/20
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{Editor’s note: This article was originally published by The Poynter Institute and The International Fact-Checking Network and is republished here with permission. We offer this to readers as …
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By HARRISON MANTAS
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8/26/20
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Last week, we asked our Facebook followers what they thought about mail-in voting. The answer was: a lot. Mirroring a conversation happening on a national scale, many responded that mail-in voting is …
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By OWEN WALSH
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8/19/20
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COVID-19 brought with it considerable stress and, as the months have unfolded, more than a few points of contention. Coping with contention is difficult even when not in the midst of a public health …
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Guest editorial by EDWARD CREMO
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8/5/20
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The Wild Wild Web is giving up one of its core values. The tech industry is abandoning the concept that it exists to provide a forum for all ideas, no matter how toxic. It is giving up its …
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By LAURIE STUART
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7/8/20
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To wear or not to wear a mask is the question.
With it, we weigh whether we approve or disapprove of some outside authority telling us what to do. With it, we weigh our sense of whether we are …
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Within the journalism community, there’s outrage over the assaults our fellow journalists have endured covering the unrest in America sparked by the death of a black man, George Floyd, in …
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By JUDY PATRICK
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6/10/20
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There is a fork in the road to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. One path is surrounded by protests and outrage, its direction swayed by ideology and politics—travelers are defined as “us” …
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They say that no one can tell us what life looks like after the pandemic. It is true, but this much I know: Life after the pandemic, and during the pandemic, will have its greatest potential if we …
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By LAURIE STUART
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5/26/20
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The 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival of Music and Art has come and gone without the major disruption to local communities that accompanied the original, which played out in 1969. The …
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8/21/19
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Ellen Cohen: Manhattan, NY I was from Beachwood, Ohio at the time. I was still in high school and went with my best friend Karen. Our parents thought we were at Ohio State orientation with an older …
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3/6/19
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A few weeks after Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (BWCA) announced it would hold a three-day event in honor of the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival, promoter Michael Lang …
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1/23/19
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