Newspaper schedule will affect Sophie most of all
Stefanik joins forces with Marjorie Taylor Greene for trip to fantasyland
By Ken Tingley
Paige Mudd sent me a letter this week on Post-Star stationery.
Although I worked at the newspaper for 32 years before retiring in 2020, I do not know Paige or her role at the newspaper. Her letter didn’t say.
Her letter reiterated the news we already knew about our daily newspaper. Beginning next month, it is going to be printed just three days a week and will be delivered by the post office.
That last part concerned me because I knew Sophie might be upset.
After lunch on Saturday, I took Sophie aside - our mail carrier comes around noon - and told her we needed to have a chat.
Sophie doesn’t say much.
She talks with her eyes.
I pulled out the letter and she sat down in front of me, interested but unconcerned. That is how she approaches much of life.
“Sophie, I have some bad news,” I started.
Sophie listened intently as she does during her classes at school.
“You and I are always the first up in the morning and I really enjoy our time together,” I said.
Sophie wagged her tail.
“I got a letter from Paige Mudd today,” I said while showing her the letter. “I know you don’t know who that is, but neither do I, and it doesn’t really matter.”
Sophie stopped wagging her tail.
“Sometimes I think the best time of your day is when you are waiting for me at the door, leaping high in the air with anticipation as we get ready to do our morning walk.”
Sophie was wagging her tail again.
I told her I looked forward to our morning walk down the driveway to get to the newspaper.
I told her it was a great way to start the day, except those days during the winter when there is a sheet of ice blocking our way.
Sophie looked back at me with those big serious brown eyes. She knew I was being serious.
“We’re not going to be able to do that anymore,” I told Sophie. “The newspaper is only going to be delivered three times a week and even then it won’t arrive until lunchtime.”
Sophie barked at me as if she wanted me to get to the point.
I then read part of the letter from Paige as Sophie sat perfectly still.
“Each print edition will be an expanded newspaper with more content, more sections and more pages. You’ll get to dive into a newspaper that’s bursting with local news and opinions, investigative and watchdog journalism, personalities and profiles, sports stories that take you well beyond the results of the game, and a deep look at the businesses and market leaders in your community.”
Sophie didn’t seem to care.
She started to look around for Gillian.
“Our lives - for both you and me - are going to change dramatically next month. We aren’t going to have our morning walk to the mailbox.”
I swore there was a tear in her eye.
It’s because of Paige I told her.
“Life is constantly changing, evolving,” I told Sophie “so we need to evolve and change with it.”
“We will be able to read the newspaper online anytime,” I told Sophie.
Sophie was unimpressed.
“If you hold it until lunch time, we can do our walk to the mailbox then,” I told Sophie. “And then you can have breakfast. We humans call that brunch.”
Sophie did not wag her tail.
Her eyes burned a hole into my soul.
Sophie got up and walked away.
Stefanik fantasyland
Rep. Elise Stefanik joined with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on two resolutions that would expunge the impeachments of Donald Trump.
It would be like they didn’t happen, even though they did happen.
Ironically, the move comes as the evidence continues to mount about the former president’s role in the January 6 riot and trying to overturn the election. It is possible the former president may be indicted by the end of the summer in a couple more cases.
Reviewing both impeachments, there is plenty of evidence to implicate Trump.
The fact that Rep. Stefanik believes otherwise shows she lives in some sort of political fantasyland.
Luzerne resignation
The recent controversy and bitter fighting at the Rockwell Falls Public Library has led one member of its board to resign. She cited doctor’s orders because it had become too stressful.
Consider that for a second. It had become too stressful to serve on a local library board In Lake Luzerne.
Pat Lewandowski cited the presence of new board member Josh Jacquard because he has “threatened employees to be fired” and “harassed them” Lewandowski said in her letter. Jacquard is the pastor of the Victory Bible Baptist Church in Lake Luzerneand ran for a position on the library board after the recent drag show reading controversy.
Jacquard has said publicly he believes drag queen story hours “sexualize children.”
Unfortunately, the Rockwell Falls Library Board refused to make Lewandowski’s letter public when asked by the newspaper. Within a short time, someone sent a copy of the letter to the newspaper.
There is going to be more controversy in Lake Luzerne and the library needs to be totally transparent.
The public has a right to know.
I am puzzled by what the MAGAs think the end state is for them. They are alienating more and more of the electorate. You are right that this is pure fantasyland. Unfortunately we are caught in the insanity.
Stefanik and Greene: new level of political depravity for NY21's congression representative.