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Joe NaccaDaily Messenger (MPNnow) |
Truth often arrives in the simplest, most direct terms. Perhaps this is an odd admission coming from one who asks readers to indulge his sometimes...
Truth be told, I was not born with a skepticism toward government spending. Family archives (“baby’s first words” and the like) indicate that...
You may not be interested in taxes, but taxes are interested in you. Just as television fare exists in order to serve as a platform for advertising,...
Another summer and another two-week sojourn to Saratoga Springs. A highlight this year was seeing sometime local trainer and all-the-time fellow...
Talk about unusual ways to celebrate July 4. On that day in 1845, Henry David Thoreau journeyed into the woods near Concord, Mass. His purpose was not...
I got lucky on D-Day. Elmer Nacca was a second-generation Italian immigrant. Like so many young men of the WWII era, he rushed off, at the age of 22,...
Choosing among candidates vying for a position on the Canandaigua City School District board of education usually rises to the intensity level of...
Call me small minded. Or naïve. Or partisan. I lay claim to little bits of all three attributes. Any one of which may account for my railing against...
Some of this “when I was a kid” stuff is creative exaggeration. However, it is fact that my friends and I walked a Rochester city mile in all...
“He has a one-track mind.” That’s an expression I used to hear frequently but less often these days. It has an earthiness lacking in more...
In his novels, Charles Dickens creates a cast of characters whose eccentric behavior provokes both laughter and a knowing nod of the head. Richard...
How “old fashioned” am I? Well, I still look forward to the daily mail delivery. The stuff derisively referred to as “snail mail.” I actually...
If one had any doubts concerning my ability to make sound predictions, a perusal of my wagering history with DraftKings would settle the matter. The...
Several years ago, the arrival of a new year prompted a resolution: I resolved to resume a former practice of reading an old-fashioned print newspaper...
When writing guest essays, I often use the nom de plume The Inquiring Taxpayer. However, my sphere of inquiry extends far beyond matters of taxation....
Philip Spencer was born in Canandaigua in 1823. He was hanged at sea in 1842. For Mutiny. Or so said ship’s captain, Cmdr. Alexander Slidell...
My evolution from a humble teacher who regaled students with lessons on the comma splice to a modest guest essayist who mesmerizes newspaper readers...