Finding Ulysses

The graph shows a drop in EMS calls of about 10% in Fairfax County VA, after the fees were imposed. We get about 600 calls per year. Lets say that our calls drop 10% – 60 calls. Lets say that half of those are nuisance calls (I don’t believe it, but some libertarians with a [...]

Jonathan wrote about the National Guard at the Fair.  The next day we have a armored Humvee in our Fireman’s parade?  Is this part of a program of increasing militarization of our society?  I don’t remember this in other years. One of my neighbors kids has signed up, and will probably deploy to the Middle [...]

Why did National Guard recruiters let elementary school children handle guns, pointing them at other children, at the Trumansburg Fair?

How can any decent, freedom-loving Trumansburg Democrat continue to support the Arcuri re-election campaign, when Mike Arcuri has joined in the hateful anti-Muslim crusade?

Over 200 people turned up to put together the Trumansburg playground this weekend, and almost all of them were volunteers. They didn’t need “market forces” to motivate their work. They came together because they care about Trumansburg’s kids… and many of the volunteers don’t even have kids in Trumansburg’s schools anymore… or yet.

Tomorrow night at 7:00, the Philomathic library here in Trumansburg will host a concert of “acoustic folk and bluegrass flavored music”. Has anyone here tasted bluegrass? At noon on Wednesday, there will be an open discussion of the book Message in a Bottle. Also, the library is soliciting “adult book reviews”, which will “be entered [...]

If Congressman Arcuri had been paying attention, he would have thought twice before voting to end the protections for the Gulf of Mexico.