Football. Anyone? Karla Alwes With the arrival of September come school, autumn, and for some, the obsession of football. I watched my token game of football …
To the Editor: A history professor from Cornell University said that The Central New York Living History Museum is “The best little museum in America, and it is not so little.” …
To the Editor: Despite the fact that I will be 63 at the end of the year, I can still vividly remember when I was three years old, my sole sibling patiently teaching me how to read. My big …
To the Editor: Concerning the Cortland County retiree health plan switch to the United Healthcare Medicare Advantage plan: Just the facts, as this retiree understands them to be. Speaking …
To the Editor: Once again the complete idiocy of a Hitch cartoon pollutes the pages of the Cortland Standard (Sept. 7). Hitch depicts John Kerry holding two signs: “Save the Planet” and …
To the Editor: There are two lessons to be learned from the Albany Times Union editorial on future heat waves, published in the Cortland Standard Aug. 29. The first is on the issue of …
To the Editor: I speak only for myself, though I think I’m joined by more county retirees than I may know. To say I’m beyond disgusted with the county Legislature is an understatement. …
To the Editor: Real numbers for city of Cortland finances are not being shared with the public, and this is concerning. The 2021 audit should have been completed and released over a year ago, …
Not long ago, while strolling through Homer’s Glenwood Cemetery, my eye caught sight of an intriguing gravestone. What attracted me was that it was clearly a …
To the Editor: When Cortland County retirees were invited to a meeting about health insurance, they were assured during the session and repeatedly thereafter that the Advantage plan was being …
To the Editor: The American healthcare system is a broken one. Compared with other major industrialized countries, we spend twice as much per capita on health services and pay nearly three times …
To the Editor: In response to Marathon Central School having the electric bus proposal shot down, I would like to know how many people that think this is a great idea were at the meeting.? I …
To the Editor: The city of Cortland is pleased to offer a beautiful new tree for the planting in the city’s right of way. The choice of trees is now available on the city’s web page …
Retired Cortland County employees have for decades retired under a contract that promised them they would, upon becoming age-eligible for Medicare, be provided with secondary health insurance to …
Thomas Lickona The sexual revolution normalized pornography. The Internet made it ubiquitous. In The New York Times (Sept. 6, 2021), Catharine MacKinnon, a feminist scholar and University …
Valerie Patridge No matter who we are or where we come from, we all know at least one person affected by opioid use disorder. OUD is a medical disorder characterized by an inability to stop …
To the Editor: News reports of horrifying climate change destruction are almost a daily occurrence. It’s like being in a war. In fact we are in a war — a war with nature. The media lists …
To the Editor: How did we allow the governments of the United States of America to become disgraceful? Do you remember anything like what is going on in the last few years happening before? …
To the Editor: I searched in vain for “Hitch’s” signature on the Aug. 1 Opinion page cartoon. Perhaps the paper cut the copy short. Or, perhaps even Hitch is now embarrassed to put …
To the Editor: Some of us remember the Cortland battle against a low level radioactive waste dump back in the 1990s. Certainly, we recall some of the facts we learned about nuclear power and …
To the Editor: I would like to respond to comments made at the most recent public hearing regarding Parker School. As of now, I have made it clear regarding my concern of turning the green …
To the Editor: Thank you to my neighbors and fellow residents of the 2nd Ward who had the courage and compassion to speak at the Aug. 1 public hearing as well as the previous one objecting to …
To the Editor: I am writing in reference to John Tucker’s letter of July 26, regarding saying “no” to the building of any more Section 8 housing. I can fully understand where you are …
To the Editor: The city of Cortland woefully underestimated the cost of the new trash collection system. They are almost at the budgeted amount only 7 months through the year. Trash collection …
To the Editor: How did we allow the governments of the United States of America to become disgraceful? Do you remember anything like what is going on in the last few years happening before? …
