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GUEST APPEARANCE: The war on poverty — An early battle

Truth be told, I was not born with a skepticism toward government spending. Family archives (“baby’s first words” and the like) indicate that...

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Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: A 'Community Honor Roll'

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,...

05.10.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Big Al storms Saratoga

Another summer and another two-week sojourn to Saratoga Springs. A highlight this year was seeing sometime local trainer and all-the-time fellow...

31.08.2024 2

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Walking into the woods

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...

03.08.2024 3

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Are suckers born or made?

20.07.2024 5

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: A soldier’s diary

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,...

06.07.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Teaching the children well

Choosing among candidates vying for a position on the Canandaigua City School District board of education usually rises to the intensity level of...

15.06.2024 5

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Threats to democracy — both local, not-so-local

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...

01.06.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: This is insane — Public school funding 'uphill both ways'

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...

04.05.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Trying to get untracked

“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...

20.04.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: 'STAR' gazing

In his novels, Charles Dickens creates a cast of characters whose eccentric behavior provokes both laughter and a knowing nod of the head. Richard...

30.03.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Being worth more never felt so bad

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...

16.03.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Getting into the batter's box

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...

10.02.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: 'Big Al' offers some advice

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...

20.01.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: The dignity of making up your own mind

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....

06.01.2024 20

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: The Butterfly Effect

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...

23.12.2023 6

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: From punctuation to taxation — A Christmas Story

My evolution from a humble teacher who regaled students with lessons on the comma splice to a modest guest essayist who mesmerizes newspaper readers...

09.12.2023 9

Finger Lakes Times

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