Cary Brunswick
- Cary Brunswick
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- Friday, February 26, 2010
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Proposal to close parks a pointless budget cut
How much does it cost a year to own a couple thousand acres of tax-exempt land that requires virtually no maintenance?
- Saturday, February 6, 2010
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‘Greening’ of America could be greater
Who would have thought, 40 years ago, that being ``green’ would come to this? For ``this,’’ of course, you can substitute the fact that just about everybody and everything wants to be seen as caring about the environment.
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'Greening' of America could be greater
Who would have thought, 40 years ago, that being ``green' would come to this? For ``this,'' of course, you can substitute the fact that just about everybody and everything wants to be seen as caring about the environment.
- Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Foothills must work to secure a new foothold
With the community reeling from the personnel and financial crises at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, it is past time that the board of directors calls a public meeting to explain what has or has not been going on at the center.
- Saturday, January 16, 2010
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Foothills must work to secure a new foothold
With the community reeling from the personnel and financial crises at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, it is past time that the board of directors calls a public meeting to explain what has or has not been going on at the center.
- Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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’10 Census likely to cause area dustups
Three months from now, households across the nation should have received their packets in the mail from the U.S. Census Bureau. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be any easier in this decennial count to make sure everybody is tracked down _ or is in the place where they’re supposed to be.
- Saturday, December 5, 2009
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Time to look within our borders, not at more war
Here we go again. Thirty billion more dollars and 30,000 more troops for a war that's really just taking sides in a civil conflict of our own creation.
- Saturday, November 14, 2009
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In new rules, DEC should ban 'fracking'
More than three years ago, I said energy production was becoming the overriding issue of the early 21st century, and that this region was smack-dab in the middle of the battleground. And that was before drilling for natural gas in Marcellus shale surfaced as perhaps the biggest bout yet between energy producers, state regulators and the people.
- Saturday, October 24, 2009
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E-books bring ease but lose familiar thrill
I don't care what anybody says; when I read a book I want to hold cardboard and paper, and turn pages. I want to use a bookmark and lay the book on the table when I take a break.
- Saturday, October 3, 2009
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Obama has chance to keep peace with Iran
With Iran, it's starting to sound awfully like seven years ago, when Bush and Cheney were waving their swords at Iraq as their campaign of lies and deceit was under way leading up to the invasion. It seems the only phrase we're not hearing is WMD for weapons of mass destruction.
- Saturday, September 12, 2009
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Springsteen, breaking news and 'roll' models
Do you know The Daily Star is probably the only newspaper in the world that has had a front-page photograph carrying a Bruce Springsteen photo credit? And I'm the one responsible for it.
- Saturday, August 22, 2009
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What works for people, not the insurers?
It is hard to believe that the national debate over health-care reform has become so nasty. Our invasion of Iraq didn't create such a stir _ as if that, too, didn't affect everybody in some way.
- Saturday, August 1, 2009
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The mystery of Mud Lake
Does Mud Lake really exist? We found ourselves asking that question a lot during a recent hike that was supposed to go there and back.
- Monday, July 13, 2009
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A changing of the guard at the border
- Saturday, June 13, 2009
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Don't bug me about being liberal
Who would have thought my boyhood fascination and handling of toads, frogs and other amphibians would predetermine my so-called liberal beliefs later in life? Some recent studies allegedly show just that.
- Saturday, May 23, 2009
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There's still time to end those wars
Memorial Days are never joyous times, for obvious reasons. And this year, the occasion is especially dour for those of us who supported Barack Obama, not only for all the other reasons, but because we thought he was a peace candidate who would put an end to our misguided wars.
- Saturday, May 2, 2009
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Flu may be the revenge of the critters
You know, in many ways it all comes down to the way we raise our critters for food. We should realize that the animals might come back to haunt us somehow. Now it's swine flu. Why not just call it pig flu; do they think swine makes people feel any better? And the pigs surely think they're getting a bad rap, since they got it from chickens or some other fowl.
- Saturday, April 11, 2009
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Use caution instead of credit cards
Do you realize that now there's double-digit unemployment in this area to go along with the longtime poverty rate in double figures?
- Saturday, March 21, 2009
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School merger questions will be asked
Now that a state commission has called on Albany to push _ if not force _ schools to merge, the fiscal crisis surely will put the merger issue on the table again during the next few years.
- Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Let's chart a new course economically
As usual when it comes to the economy, nobody knows exactly what to do about it. This time, let's turn that to our advantage.
