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Local Commentaries

A Garden Vegetable?

First of all, I believe rhubarb is technically a vegetable since it has no seeds in it. Once again, my rhubarb is ready to pick. I have already made sauce and one pie. I have only two plants. But that is enough for me. When one of my son’s employees wanted to get rid of her rhubarb, I ...

NY Should Offer EV Rebates To Low- Income Residents

I commend the editors of The Post-Journal for suggesting higher electric vehicle rebates for those with lower incomes. The benefits would be many for all the people of New York. Combustion vehicles exhaust into the air we breathe such gasses as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon ...

Retirement Security: A Silent Disaster

After World War II, most employees in America were covered by pension plans. No longer. Pension plans were “defined benefit” plans, meaning the plan would owe you a monthly pension you could be certain of based upon your years of service to your employer. In 1970, for example, over ...

Thirty Years With The National World War II Memorial

This past Memorial Day weekend in Washington, D.C., we commemorated the 20th year of the dedication of the National World War II Memorial. It was a special time. For me, it had all started in 1994, thirty years ago, when I had been first appointed by the President to the commission responsible ...

Court’s Reasoning Is Odd In S.C. Challenge

South Carolina has prevailed in the Equal Protection Clause challenge to the Palmetto State’s congressional-redistricting plan after the 2020 census. There can be no dissecting of the whole U.S. Supreme Court in one column. Yet it’s possible to look at part of it. ı ı ı The ...

Legend Of The Dogwood

This year my two dogwood trees have been particularly beautiful with white blossoms lasting more than two weeks. Last year the flowers were spotty so I thought maybe my tree was dying, but this proved that wrong. Years ago, my husband and I went up on the back forty and found these two ...