Did you know this column appears in what is called the “Opinion” section of the newspaper? That means I get to share my opinion about things.
However, I have discovered many people don’t want my opinion. Or, they only want my opinion about certain things, not others.
I get a steady stream of positive feedback through my website, emails — even at the grocery store — about certain columns. Dead silence about other ones. Even though I am busting a gut to write about some things — because I am an opinion columnist, after all — I have narrowed what I write about.
For example, I would love to write about that Barrett, Bunnell, and Hicks Finger Lakes Times series that was supposedly about high taxes but instead was a thinly veiled plea to develop public spaces on the waterfront commercially. I chuckled each time they claimed........