Opinion

Letter submission: Explain the law? Why doesn’t the Supreme Court majority explain itself when it hands out massive victories to President Trump on things like dismantling the Department of Education? It is clearly because there […]

Dear editor at Oswego County Today, I’m very disappointed in every legislator who voted for one of the most harmful bills in history, Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Many people in our state and nationwide […]

Karoline Leavitt called the catastrophic flooding in Texas “an act of God.” President Trump told reporters, “Nobody expected it. Nobody saw it.” Yet, the New York Times said Kerr County was “a part of Texas […]

July 3rd and July 4th, 2025, marked a pivotal time in the history of our American Democracy. The passage and signing of the so-called BBB will  now affect every American While some cheered its passage, […]

Letter submission: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise recently announced, “We are at the precipice of the new golden age of America.” The last golden age was the era of the Robber Barons in the late […]

Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote that the 2008 Financial Crisis “brought the world economy to the brink of collapse and cost millions of innocent Americans their jobs and/or houses.” Krugman explained public outrage was […]

Letter submission: President Trump is currently trying to bend justice in favor of his friend Netanyahu in Israel. Netanyahu is on trial for a variety of crimes. Trump is implicitly threatening to stop military aid […]

Two decades ago, at the 2005 World Summit, global leaders committed to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). The world agreed to act to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. […]

In my 30-plus years as a news reporter, I have never recalled a political candidate declaring victory before the election results were certified. This isn’t mere overconfidence; it’s a calculated effort to create the illusion […]