Cary Brunswick
- Cary Brunswick
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- 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.
- Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Outwitted by a gruff Billy the goat
She'd been checking around about getting organic, unpasteurized whole milk (you know, from the cow to you), wanting to find a source a bit closer to Oneonta. Finally, she heard back from a farmer not far away.
- Saturday, January 17, 2009
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With Bush years over, what now?
It's hard to believe, but it's true. After eight years and dozens of these columns critical of the president, Bush finally is leaving office Tuesday.
- Saturday, December 27, 2008
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A reading list for the coming year
Over the years, I’ve often bowed to the closing of a calendar year by offering my alternative Top 10 books of the year.
- Monday, December 8, 2008
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The holidays create a web of dangers
I think there was a time when people in general enjoyed themselves and had fun around the holiday season. I'm not sure when it was, however, because it's been a while.
- Saturday, September 13, 2008
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Haunted by a thousand similar faces
I have to confess, all squirrels look the same to me. Everybody seems so down these days, she said, because of the way people are being taken in by that Sarah Palin. Why don't you cheer people this time?
- Saturday, August 23, 2008
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We can't allow history to be whitewashed
It occasionally happens that people will call or e-mail The Star with an odd request: They want us to purge the historical record (can you imagine it?) of facts that may not reflect well on them.
- Saturday, August 2, 2008
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Let's not fuel any paranoia about Obama
After the controversy over The New Yorker's mockingly racist cover of July 21 has faded away, we still will be asking ourselves how many gullible voters were affected by it.
- Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Bush builds upon legacy of ineptitude
It is difficult to believe that, just six months ago, I figured there was little more damage that President Bush could do to this country _ despite our powerlessness to stop him.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008
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In politics, don't put faith in facts
It amazes me that we have heard or seen so much bull about pastors and churches and religion in this year's races for president.
- Saturday, May 31, 2008
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This time, let's control our energy
Now that gasoline has reached that $4-a-gallon plateau, which we'll find is more of an ascending slope than we thought, most people are not reacting with the anger or resolve that I had expected.
