Reader's opinions

To the Editor: I am writing in regards to Carleeta Edwards’ letter of May 19, “What has happened?” I will be 63 years old in December, and so I can relate in …

ECG LETTER- Weiss 0522 via email To the Editor: According to a recent Cornell study, as reported in the May 11 Cortland Standard, almost half of upstate New Yorkers oppose utility-scale …

Death and taxes

To the Editor: The inevitability of “taxes” is part of the responsibility and reality of home ownership. Federal, state, county, town, library and school taxes …

To the Editor: Water, water everywhere but not in my yard. One of the items that land developers and home builders don’t understand at the time of …

To the Editor: Where did the days go when respect was important, people had time to smile, customer service was more than accepting payment, people actually talked to one another with their …

To the Editor: When you think of truly great American artists, how many of them that come to your mind are, or were, female? Outside of Georgia O’Keeffe , probably not many, if any at all. …

To the Editor: Publishing an article on the front page about community colleges, and an overwhelmingly negative one at that, (‘Waste of time’: …

To the Editor: I urge citizens of the 19th Congressional District to call their Congressperson Marc Molinaro. Tell him to vote for the budget extension …

To the Editor: The lion’s share of Cortland Free Library’s operating budget — that’s the part that keeps the lights on, staff paid, and the historic building in good …

To the Editor: In the April 21 paper, Mr. Shiffer cites many news articles from the past in an attempt to prove that climate change is false. Citing old …

To the Editor: I strongly support Daniel Mulligan, David Peck and Heather Williams for School Board. I am concerned by calls by some to cut back …

To the Editor: The state of affairs within the United States government at present is untenable. There is not space enough to outline the lunacy in a letter to the editor. We have an ex-president …

To the Editor:New Yorkers do our part to recycle and reduce our waste, but we can’t recycle, reduce and reuse our way out of the 15 million tons of plastic waste produced in New York annually. …

To the Editor: In his April 21 letter, Gary Shiffer uses cherry-picked isolated “facts” (some true, others not), tries to show contradictions in them and thus prove all climate science is …

Journalism 101

To the Editor: Dominion Voting System’s out-of-court settlement with Fox News brought to mind a quote from Thomas Jefferson. In 1788, when the proposed First Amendment was under …

To the Editor:Really? Are the politicians and judges so foolish as the think the American people would believe that when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they didn’t know …

To the Editor:Recently two different stories appeared in the news — one about the dire flooding and famine in Sudan, and the other about the Supreme Court’s abortion pill case.Dr. Anthony …

“We”

To the Editor:We have men and women who joined the service and go to another country to protect our home land.We have men and women who join the police and go out and run to the sound of gun shots to …

To the Editor: Arctic ice seen receding since at least 1918. (NY Times - 1923) Glaciers in Greenland are rapidly melting. (Harrisburg Sunday Courier - 1939) Possible rise in the surface of the ocean, …

To the Editor: Gamble’s cartoon in the April 15 Cortland Standard was interesting, even if it had nothing to do with domestic or world oil production issues. The United States is far and away …

To the Editor: In the April 8 Cortland Standard article “Planting for tomorrow,” Amanda Barber, manager of the Cortland Soil and Water Conservation District, gives advice about what kinds …

To the Editor:On Easter Monday, the columnist Robert Knight reminded us that 3,500 years ago God, through Moses, set forth the ultimate human choice: “See, I have set before you . . . life and …

To the Editor: I read Bonnie Carlson’s letter in the April 5 paper about Pets-A-Plenty and shared a similar, nostalgic sentiment. I read that they were closing and wanted to take my five …

To the Editor:Cortland’s Assemblywoman, Anna Kelles (D-125NY), testified before the US Senate Subcommittee of Ed Markey (D-Mass.) about the environmental problems caused by cryptocurrency …

Missing local pet store

To the Editor:On March 23, when I happened to be walking down West Road, I decided to go to Pets-A-Plenty, as I had not been there in a while. I noticed that their double-sided sign was not by the …

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