Finding Ulysses

We need people in our town and village governments who understand the importance of online microenterprise to the local economy.

The footprints, walking, undisturbed in the street, are not mine. Where was this person walking to, at such an hour?

On Friday January 26th at 7pm, Back to Democracy will have Wayles Brown from Amnesty International, speak to us at the Fire Hall, and then take questions on the Military Commissions Act, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Habeas Corpus, and the Geneva Conventions. Amnesty International has been putting pressure on rogue regimes which violate internationally recognized human [...]

It would be easy, given the human structures of the village of Trumansburg, to drive right down Main Street and not realize that a creek is there. The Trumansburg Creek has been at the heart of our village’s development, but it has been obscured by development, and is often forgotten, even by residents. I’m making [...]

Our Back To Democracy film this month was “The Ground Truth” a documentary of the experiences of the soldiers before, during, and after combat in Iraq. It is a very powerful film. From the discussion afterward, it seemed everyone was deeply touched. The film pulls you into their troubled lives. Some of them lost limbs, [...]

Inclimate weather? My dictionary says that there is no such word as inclimate. Maybe there ought to be, though. The definition for this new word would be: Unseasonable weather due to climate change.

Don Ellis sends out an email announcing his plan to run for re-election.

When it is 1:15 in the morning on January 5, and the temperature outside is 50 degrees, I am unnerved. I look at the radar maps, and see rain, not snow, and it’s coming from the southwest. I haven’t yet shoveled my driveway, and though I rarely look forward to that work, it doesn’t feel right to miss it.