Until he retired, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wavered in his support of both the right-wing and the left-wing blocs. His vote was the tie-breaker in several contentious five-to-four split decisions While Kennedy admirably sided with the right-wing bloc on some decisions I believe he ...
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness month and although many may not realize it, trafficking happens here in our communities. Human trafficking is nothing less than a form of modern day slavery. Its victims are forced, coerced, defrauded and exploited for sexual purposes, compelled ...
Abuse of power! Abuse of power! It’s the Democrats’ new battle cry. Yet, assuming that Trump had abused his power in the first place, such abuse is not a criminal matter let alone an impeachable offense. (I’m aware that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, for one, was impeached for corruption ...
In Virginia, a racist governor who would violate his Hippocratic Oath by allowing late-term aborted live babies to die, and the Democrat-controlled statehouse, seek to “steer the state to the left on abortion, gun control, public benefits for illegal immigrants, LGBT issues, taxes and ...
“Make America Great Again”? Hah! The world considered Nazi Germany to be the “evil empire” when they locked up Jews in concentration camps. What does this say about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border, families fleeing drought, starvation, and violence, and locking the ...
My son said, “we need the earth but the earth does not need us.” So true. What are you doing to help the earth? Mowing, she doesn’t like. A perfect lawn isn’t perfect. She likes wild flowers like we use to have. Daisies, buttercups, violets, dog tooth violets we picked in the woods when ...
I read with interest “GJSD staff stays active in community” (Jan. 13 issue). I wholeheartedly commend the dedication of these Johnstown teachers beyond the classroom. I appreciated that the Leader-Herald highlighted their contributions. I would like to call your readers’ attention to ...
There are now bills that have been introduced in both houses of the New York State legislature, S1278 and A7348 (see https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S1278) that propose to enact “The Automatic Voter Registration Act.” Illegal and legal immigrants who have New York drivers ...
While the middle class in Upstate New York suffer under fiscal programs that seem to only benefit New York City, our governor has decided to visit Puerto Rico to tour the recent earthquake devastation. As a taxpayer, I need to ask, why the governor of New York needs to travel anywhere except ...
On Friday, Jan. 24, buses from the Capitol District area will be bringing people to Washington, D.C. to join in the annual March for Life, in remembrance of over 61 million babies whose lives brutally ended in abortion. Locally on Wednesday, January 22 (the 47th year of Roe vs. Wade), ...
The following narrative, though old, ancient and very true contains some profound truths on faith. I must write about it because like one of the protagonists in the narrative, we at some points in our lives doubted the reality of Jesus. To begin with, for several sorrowful frightened ...
On behalf of Fort Plain Free Library staff and members of the Board of Trustees, I would like to express my deepest appreciation to all of the local businesses, families, and individuals who made contributions in support of our specialty basket raffles and our holiday open house on Dec. 1. ...
If you could prevent cancer, wouldn’t you? You can. In fact, there are two ways to prevent cervical cancer — vaccination and screening. Most cervical cancers are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Being vaccinated against HPV could prevent most cervical cancers. The HPV vaccine is ...
It was a normal Sunday on Dec. 29, early afternoon in Hannaford, an impending ice storm for the next day or so, where I was astonished and overwhelmed to tears when a young lady and her husband in line ahead of me surprisingly paid for my groceries. I had gone to the 14 items or less line in ...
I read a story about the pay of the governors for the United States. Wow what a pay difference between the lowest paid governor to the highest paid governor based on 2019 information! ($70,000 — Maine to $201,680 — California) with New York Governor Cuomo making $200,000. According to the ...
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and the Cancer Prevention in Action Program (CPiA) wants you to know there are two ways to prevent cervical cancer — cervical cancer screening and vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Cervical cancer screening begins at age 21 and ...
What a wealth of talented young people in the Gloversville school system. Once again it was demonstrated by the recent well-crafted production of “Elf Jr.” performed at the Gloversville Middle School. Capably directed by Mrs. Jennifer Flynn, with the assistance of Mrs. Zavadil and Mrs. ...
On Dec. 19, at 8:30 a.m. Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputies Cody Sweet and Jerrica Smith responded to an ADT alarm at out home. Finding a basement door unlocked, they proceeded to inspect our home. Finding no one home, they went to talk to our neighbors who told them of our morning routine of ...
Congratulations to the Leader — we can now list you among those putting out misinformation. The editorial in the Dec. 21-22, edition rants about the cadillac health insurance tax. The editorial states “proceeds from the 40 percent tax were used in a futile attempt to make it appear ...
Trump is impeached! And when Speaker Pelosi announced the results of the voting, she bit her lip to hide her smile, — and when she raised a stern finger cautioning her Democrat children to stifle their applause because the appearance of gloating was unseemly, the House melodrama was at long ...