2013-06-19T10:24:15-04:00 urn:uuid:42e62926-b587-4084-a294-93bfe7dcb987 -- urn:newsml:ONEO1601259:s 2013-06-19T09:00:49-04:00

It has been anything but a smooth ride for Edmond Marchi, who resigned last week as administrator of Otsego Manor, the county's nursing home, and the end of the ride hasn't exactly been easy, either.

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1601374:s 2013-06-19T09:00:46-04:00

Hello Washington! Is anyone working on the IRS scandal, our financial crisis or Benghazi? Who is managing the Executive Branch? How about some honest answers from the White House?

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1591071:s 2013-06-18T09:00:43-04:00

To Cherry Valley Fire Department, Lucy Ford and Jason's Run.

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1596827:s 2013-06-17T09:00:49-04:00

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1589290:s 2013-06-17T09:00:49-04:00

It is easy for Americans to congratulate ourselves over how far we have come since the Jim Crow days of segregation and other examples of racial and religious prejudice.

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1586370:s 2013-06-17T09:00:43-04:00

Senator Jim Seward has called public financing of campaigns "Dead on arrival in the Senate." This is not true. It isn't dead, it is still knocking on the Senate door. The Republican caucus won't let it in.

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1586138:s 2013-06-17T09:00:43-04:00

I recently received a letter from the town of Davenport surveying town residents regarding the proposed Constitution Pipeline, which, if allowed, will cross about 128 properties in Davenport alone.

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1579629:s 2013-06-15T09:00:46-04:00

Revelations that the National Security Agency has been monitoring our communications in apparent violation of the Fourth Amendment is causing quite a stir, but partisans are already trying to use it for their own ends. If that happens, the republic will have lost an important opportunity to set things right.

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1586183:s 2013-06-14T09:00:46-04:00

With the cost of living constantly on the rise, with our governments cutting back on services, even furloughs, increases in property taxes, income taxes, utility bills and especially the cost of gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, etc., then why is it that the Otsego County Sheriff's Department allows all their deputies to take the county police vehicles home so they can travel to and from work?

-- urn:newsml:ONEO1583713:s 2013-06-14T09:00:46-04:00

I went for my mom's prescriptions at CVS on Cooperstown's Main Street at 10 a.m. and there wasn't a parking slot to be had. I parked in an illegal spot and ran for it. When I got Mom's medications, I politely told the checkout girl I will be transferring my business to a location with easier parking access. She said she'd heard the same words from other customers. When I returned to my car, a business owner was outside in the rain clearing his business spots of unauthorized vehicles.