To the Editor: I watched the Cortland County Legislature meeting of Jan. 26 and was surprised, and dismayed, to see that the motion to allow legislators to claim unlimited mileage reimbursement …

To the Editor: This letter is in response to the reader who defined herself as a conservative. She also managed to disguise her anti-liberal rant as a “non-rant” using tongue-in-cheek …

To the Editor: Saturday, Jan. 28, is the 37th anniversary of that tragic day on which the US Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in midair 73 seconds after lift-off, killing all seven astronauts on …

To the Editor: Mr. McCarthy made enough deals to rise to the speaker position he felt he deserved. Leadership should be earned not deserved. His acceptance speech remarked the concessions were …

To the Editor: In this new year I lift a glass for a toast: Here’s to the Cortland Standard Opinion page! May it continue to print all opinions on the issues of the day, whether liberal or …

To the Editor:Is the “No smoking” ban on absolutely necessary? Shouldn’t the real issue, which is garbage, be addressed instead?It’s proposed that the law doesn’t want …

To the Editor:Thank you for two insightful articles on the solar project being developed in Homer, Cortlandville and Solon. I have been following this project for several years, and I continue to be …

To the Editor: Perfect timing. Did you happen to read the article in the Jan. 6 Cortland Standard? Local business are struggling to meet their IDA’s required PILOT staffing protocol. Mind …

To the Editor:Kudos to the City of Cortland Environmental Advisory Committee and to Bruce Adams for his role in keeping the group alive. I had the privilege of being one of the EAC’s founding …

To the Editor: I notice with regret that as a nation we are getting further away from understanding what an argument is. In fact, argument is not a “rant,” as a letter writer recently …

To the Editor:In the Jan. 10 Cortland Standard in the “Good Old Days” there was an article from Jan. 10, 2013 about a company wanting to install a wind farm on land in Homer, Solon, …

Solar bonanza really a money grab To the Editor:I had a chance to watch the video of the Cortland County Legislature’s October 2022 meeting. My main reason to watch was regarding the PILOT …

To the Editor:In his Jan. 5 letter (“Enough already”) John Carroll described my criticism of a recent Hitch cartoon as a “rant.” What makes it a rant anymore than his letters? …

To the Editor: A recent article in this paper has compelled me to write today, to remind your readers all milk is safe, wholesome and antibiotic-free. How can I be so confident? The U.S. Food and …

To the Editor:I am responding to John Carroll’s letter of Jan. 5, in which he praises the editorial cartoonist “Hitch” and objects to the letters from Jim Weiss which have …

To the Editor: To New York state legislators, the next time you decide to vote yourselves a pay raise, (making you the highest paid legislature in the U.S.), could you do it before an election and …

To the Editor: The county legislators will again be voting on the PILOT for solar projects in the county. The current rate is $7,000 per megawatt, many believe that price should be lowered to attract …

To the Editor: What a joke! The joke is on us hard-working Americans. Republicans take control of the House and don’t even have enough respect to start out with some resemblance of an orderly …

To the Editor: Mr. Weiss (Cortland Standard Dec. 30) has subjected the many readers of the Cortland Standard and in particular myself and Mr. Kabat to his ongoing rant. Whilst you find the cartoonist …

To the Editor: I read the article of Dec. 22, about the firefighter who rescued the man trapped in his truck. Thank goodness Mr. Alteri was near by and could act, or the outcome for Mr. Robinson …

To the Editor: The word “nun” is simply the letter “n” doing a cartwheel. If even/odd parking is ostensibly for snow removal, why does the city write tickets in the summer? …

To the Editor: On Nov. 30 I criticized the Cortland Standard editor for publishing another disgusting Hitch cartoon. This one was a perversion trifecta in which Hitch ridiculed all in one cartoon …

To the Editor:Thank you Gen Z for voting in large numbers in the mid-term elections. But according to AARP, the older generations also made a significant contribution to the outcome that will be …

To the Editor:I agree in part to the Cortland Standard’s Our Opinion of Nov. 3. I hope that we are “falling back” for the last time. I believe that standard time should be permanent …

To the Editor:Why, in order to pay school taxes for my local school, do I have to send my school tax payments to Albany? Why do I never get a paid receipt mailed to me after requesting one?For two …