Opinion

Dear Editor, Has Donald J. Trump truly become king? Trump has usurped both the law-making and appropriations powers of Congress like kings do. Trump has installed the legal basis of monarchy (“The King can do […]

Letter to the Editor by Martha Marshall. I have a simple question for Will Barclay. He currently represents the 120th Assembly District, which includes Oswego County; the Cayuga County towns of Ira, Sterling and Victory; […]

Dear Honorable Legislators, As we continue responding to the significant snowfall across Oswego County, we want to update you on our ongoing efforts and provide key information to share with residents. Current Actions: Severe Snowfall […]

The light reflects off the water. Snowflakes fall under the gently moonlit sky. Tomorrow in Oswego it will be sunny. The day after it will rain. Meanwhile, the fires in Southern California end only for […]

President Trump’s new “National Garden of American Heroes,” a sculpture garden, must include the queen of all American sculpture, NY’s model Audrey Munson (1891-1996), who is buried here in this county. Fellow NY model Hettie […]

The Epistle of James 2:6 asks, “Is it not the rich who are exploiting you?” This question remained relevant from the New Testament, to David Hume, to 1776, until today. In his essay “Of the […]

Dear Representative Tenney, What is going to happen to the federal funding received by the schools in your congressional district when the President shuts down the United States Department of Education? Do you support his […]

Does Elon Musk have the proper security clearances for access to agency personnel records and government payment systems? Of course he does. People have forgotten the new theory of presidential authorization floated up in the […]

This week, Fulton 6th ward City Councilman Ryan Taylor had to resign his seat due to serious errors made by the Oswego County Board of Elections. It turns out he wasn’t a resident of the […]