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Crime, and punishment


“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences” — so wrote (maybe; the attribution is unclear) Robert Louis Stevenson. On Tuesday morning, Jarrin Rankin, known on the streets as “...

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On demand


Will the U.S. default on its debt in a few weeks, causing an instant cash-flow crisis, interest-rate spike on bonds and a double-dip recession? Almost certainly not ... there aren’t enough kamikaze...

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The vision thing


What makes Kingston different from the other small cities in the mid-Hudson region? Though many people will offer an answer quickly, they’re probably wrong. The fact is that we don’t know the entir...

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Sanctimonious scorn and reverse schadenfreude


They wanted that bitch dead. You know who I’m talking about. Casey Anthony. The one who got found by a jury of her peers not guilty of the murder of her daughter. As soon as the verdict dropped, y...

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A farewell to Billy Costello


You can always call a guy who won a world title in boxing, ‘Champ.’ They never get tired of hearing it. You could call Billy Costello ‘Champ’ and you might see him, almost imperceptibly, swell with...

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Kingston’s blue Monday


Mondays are rarely days to inspire anyone to get on top of a suitcase and do a happy dance, but the city’s past Monday was as saddening as they get. Early in the day was the press conference at co...

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The greatest governor in New York history


One might think that of Andrew Cuomo after this week, and one might be justified. After all, he got a budget passed before the April 1 deadline, and now he’s managed to do the unthinkable — get a p...

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Is this last issue of this paper?


Well, even if the rapture does go down at 6 p.m. local time, as predicted by a man who runs a Christian radio network and has produced an elaborate (and to me, undecipherable) Bible-based justifica...

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My Swedish sojourn and what it taught me about America


It’s neither fair nor intellectually valid to draw a direct comparison between Stockholm, where I just spent a wonderful 10 days with my girlfriend Marleen in her adopted hometown, and Kingston. St...

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What ‘we’ are thinking


The editorial “we” is a little baffled this week. We figured that the idea of having one person in charge of collecting all the monies the city collects from its various nickel-and-dime (and quarte...

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