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BOOK REVIEW: 'Forever and Ever, Amen'

Randy Travis is a country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor who, since 1985, has recorded 20 studio albums, charted more than 50 singles...

13.11.2024 4

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Joel Freedman

BOOK REVIEW: 'Scoundrel'

“Scoundrel” is a powerfully written, thoroughly researched true story of how Edgar Smith, while on New Jersey’s death row for the murder of...

30.10.2024 6

Finger Lakes Times

Joel Freedman

GUEST APPEARANCE: The Bachelor and The Bachelorette in an alcohol dependent society

19.10.2024 7

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Charlie Hustle'

(Ed note: Joel Freedman read and reviewed this book before Pete Rose’s death Sept. 30.) When 19-year-old Pete Rose, aka Charlie Hustle, arrived in...

10.10.2024 10

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GUEST APPEARANCE: A place for prayer at public schools

First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit Christian organization, represented Joe Kennedy in his legal battle against the school board of Bremerton, Wash.,...

05.10.2024 10

Finger Lakes Times

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BOOK REVIEW: 'My Father & Atticus Finch'

24.09.2024 5

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Death Row Welcomes You'

Award-winning journalist Steven Hale was the leading reporter on the execution of seven Tennessee inmates after that state, in 2018 — following 10...

17.09.2024 5

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: 2024: America’s continuing nursing home tragedy

I am disappointed that during this election season, no candidate — neither Democrat nor Republican — is addressing the need for nursing home...

31.08.2024 5

Finger Lakes Times

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Hillbilly Elegy'

30.08.2024 5

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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Many Lives Of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing and Healing'

13.08.2024 3

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Was Trump’s life saved by divine intervention?

When former President Donald Trump holds a rally, he usually does not use charts to illustrate his message. But at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on...

03.08.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Trial Of The Century'

In 1925, Dayton, Tenn., high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for violating a Tennessee law that prohibited public schools from teaching “any...

16.07.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Writing to politicians — An exercise in futility?

I recently sent Sen. Pam Helming a copy of pages 21-23 of the April 2024 Humane Society of the United States Horrible Hundred report, which describes...

13.07.2024 4

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BOOK REVIEW: '1776'

“1776” is a highly readable account, based on David McCullough’s research in both American and British archives of the year 1776 during the...

02.07.2024 10

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule'

Georg Elser was a 36-year-old cabinetmaker from Württemberg who hated bullies and who had a profound sense of justice. When Adolf Hitler came on the...

18.06.2024 10

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover’s Story Of Joy And Anguish'

In 1998, constitutional lawyer and nationally syndicated broadcaster Mark R. Levin and his family adopted a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel...

11.06.2024 10

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Is Trump trial outcome another miscarriage of justice?

I recently read “Smoke But No Fire: Convicting The Innocent Of Crimes That Never Happened” by Jessica S. Henry, who was a public defender for 10...

08.06.2024 9

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II'

Daniel James Brown’s “Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II” is about tough challenges faced by Japanese...

21.05.2024 30

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GUEST APPEARANCE: New York needs to crack down on substandard puppy mills

18.05.2024 20

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Saving Simon'

In the spring of 2011, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz received a phone call from an animal control officer. During an investigation, she...

23.04.2024 20

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Our endangered lakes — preserving them should be a sacred trust and honor

The Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association, in response to a significant outbreak of harmful cyanobacterial algal blooms in Canandaigua Lake last...

13.04.2024 10

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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions'

As in her book “Dead Man Walking,” “The Death of Innocents” is Sister Helen Prejean’s account of accompanying two condemned death row...

09.04.2024 10

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BOOK REVIEW: 'If You Want Something Done: Leadership Lessons From Bold Women'

Who could have predicted that when Nikki Haley’s parents met the challenges of immigrating from India to the United States that one of their...

26.03.2024 20

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BOOK REVIEW: "Of Time and Turtles'

In her introduction to Samantha Glen’s “Best Friends: The True Story of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary,” Mary Tyler Moore wrote,...

13.03.2024 8

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Thoughts on the teaching of history

In considering the overall good quality of history courses at two-year and upper-level colleges in the State University of New York system, I would...

09.03.2024 5

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BOOK REVIEW: "The Other Wes Moore"

By the end of his fourth day as a plebe at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa., Wes Moore had run away four times. Sgt. Austin, Moore’s...

27.02.2024 10

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Ethical issues in biology education, research

When students at a high school Participation In Government class were asked to invite outside speakers to discuss controversial issues, I accepted the...

17.02.2024 6

Finger Lakes Times

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BOOK REVIEW: 'When Truth Is All You Have'

In his highly readable and spellbinding memoir, Jim McCloskey describes his first assignment as a chaplain at New Jersey’s Trenton State Prison,...

12.02.2024 10

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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Happiest Man on Earth'

When Eddie Jaku was an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, he suffered from the effects of beatings, slave labor, malnutrition, freezing weather...

29.01.2024 20

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BOOK REVIEW: King: A Life

“King: A Life” is a highly readable and engrossing account of the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and of the moral and spiritual...

15.01.2024 10

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GUEST APPEARANCE: Thoughts on transgender controversies

I agree with John Murtari and a previous Finger Lakes Times column of his that schoolchildren need to be protected from harmful transgender policies....

14.01.2024 10

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BOOK REVIEW: 'Outside The Game: A Collection of Inspirational Stories'

Jim Mandelaro’s story “Bobby Greco: A Passion for the Game” looks at the life of Geneva resident Bobby Greco, who was born with a rare...

02.01.2024 4

Finger Lakes Times

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BOOK REVIEW: 'A Higher Call'

Four days before Christmas 1943, the lives of two pilots — one American, the other German — would be changed forever during a brief encounter in...

19.12.2023 30

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BOOK REVIEW: 'A Matter of Honor'

By the end of November 1941, military decoding experts in the U.S. had broken Japan’s secret codes and intercepted communications that a Japanese...

07.12.2023 5

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