Category Archives: Commentary

The Time Tunnel

3/7/2013 – 3:06 pm

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Hot New World, Toxic Old World

2/28/2013 – 4:53 pm

In the New Yorker magazine a few weeks ago, Ian Frazier wrote about the effects of Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island. His report mixes the heartache and loss suffered by the community with the cold, wet facts of climate change and other injuries we’ve inflicted on our surroundings.  At one point, Mr. Frazier (whose nickname […]

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Letters to the Dead

2/21/2013 – 11:18 am

As I mentioned two weeks ago, this month I’m spending a good deal of time with my friend Joan, who died in February 2003. We worked together at a newspaper and became friends, correspondents and opponents in a stimulating two-decade debate. When she passed, the editors of our old paper graciously printed a memorial I’d […]

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Me… We

2/14/2013 – 7:06 pm

I’m a me person.  It sounds egotistic; I don’t mean it that way (although an honest person could argue it’s true).  What I mean is the story of my life is mine alone. It’s true, like Alfred Tennyson’s Ulysses, I am a part of all that I have met.  I have, like most of Americans […]

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Gimme A Call

2/7/2013 – 3:44 pm

In the dim and distant ‘80s, as a newspaper reporter, I had to call a certain mayor – a longtime and fairly cagey politician – and ask him a difficult question I’d neglected to bring up when I’d interviewed him earlier.  I fretted for a while at my desk, did a couple role plays in […]

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A Piece of My Mine

1/31/2013 – 8:25 pm

A colleague, an attorney, began her career in the Monroe County, New York Public Defender’s Office.  I’m from Monroe County.  I told her the name of my town. “Hmm,” she said. “We didn’t work by town, we worked by zip.  What was your zip?” “One four six one seven,” I said. “Oh yeah, I know […]

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A Bit of Everything

1/24/2013 – 7:42 pm

I spent a good portion of last weekend happily skating on the Pine Street Barge Canal near my house.  It was perfect winter exercise and recreation, just what I needed to bring a healthy glow to my cheeks.  (I’m a crappy skater, but I enjoy it.)  Gliding over the rough patches near the beaver lodge, […]

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