I am a member of the Maine-Endwell Music Boosters. Our major fundraiser to help high school students pay for music trips, solo and ensemble adjudications and other non-district related music costs is a fruit sale. Every January, the high school music students go home with the flyers and the beginning of February, the fruit comes.… Continue reading The Fruits of Our Labor
John McCain, the frontleader for the GOP presidential nomination, made a huge mistake yesterday. His mistake is compounded by the fact that earlier in the campaign he admitted the economy was not his strong suit. Then, yesterday, he missed the US Senate’s roll call vote on the economic stimulus package. True, his vote would not… Continue reading Who will capitalize on McCain’s mistake?
A law per se. Should elected officials running for re-election or, in this particular case, for higher office be required to meet certain benchmarks – I really wanted to use timetables as I am thinking of John McCain but I will refrain – of their current office? I realize that every elected official will miss… Continue reading Should there be a rule?
Yesterday morning, I was having an online chat with my mother. I was discussing a CNN reporter who was interviewing African-American voters in Harlem, NY as they came out of the polling location. My mother insisted they would all vote for Hillary Clinton. She stated Bill Clinton’s office being in Harlem as one factor. She… Continue reading The Race Question
When will the rain stop? Less then five days ago, my driveway and the road in front of my house were covered with ice and snow. We were in the middle of an ice storm. The driveway just became more driveway and less ice yesterday after 25 to 35 pounds of salt and two blisters… Continue reading Rainy Days and Wednesdays?
Let me start by saying, if I had to vote right now for one of the four GOP candidates still in the process, I would vote for Mike Huckabee. That being said, I think he needs to get out of the race. Number one, Huckabee doesn’t have the deep pockets that are going to be… Continue reading Scary Prospects
Usually when you hear the words “morning after,” you think hangover. I guess that is what US politics has after a day like yesterday. Super Tuesday was – in the eyes of those in charge – suppose to help both parties but mostly the democratic party know definitively who the nominee was going to be. … Continue reading The Morning After
Okay, I have voiced my concerns about the fact that downstate NY – NYC and the surrounding counties – have six more hours than upstate NY to vote. This may have been the way it has always been but that does not make it any less wrong. Now, the story about my mother and step-father’s… Continue reading Voting Irregularities
I am reprising a blog entry I wrote last year just before Mardi Gras. Okay, so it is French. And we all know that Mardi Gras is coming. Right? Anyway, Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez translates literally into Leave the Good Times Roll . I don’t remember every celebrating a real Mardi Gras – real… Continue reading Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez
I will admit, if I had paid attention to local news today, this would probably have not been an issue I found worthy of time putting to publication. Unfortunately, I didn’t and I am rather annoyed. The weather here in the Southern Tier of NY is ugly. We have had ice storms as recent as… Continue reading What is Up in NY State?
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