Whatever happens on November 8, come January at least two of the Mid-Hudson region’s county executive offices will be managed by a relatively young, dark and toothsome gentleman sporting a haircut you can set your watch to. Call it a trend. The greater Hudson Valley, and particularly this region, is becoming renowned for fast-tracking young, [...]
Volume III No. 4
Executive indecision
AN INTRIGUINGLY MATCHED PAIR OF YOUNG CONTENDERS VIE TO LEAD DUTCHESS COUNTY OUT OF STEINHAUSIAN STASIS
Steve Hopkins • November 3rd, 2011
Road Warriors
After The Press, an independent Internet news organization based in Kingston, challenges mainstream, corporate media
Steve Hopkins • January 27th, 2011
Paul Joffe sits next to the distraught cancer survivor, Tracey Heinlein, on her Beaver County, PA living room couch, just steps from the dining room chair occupied a few weeks earlier by CNN’s patronizing, flannel-shirted Carol Costello. He’s showing Heinlein and her mom a videotape of CNN’s production of their story, purportedly a scorching exposé [...]
The Green Tea Manifesto
A bid to forge a way forward through the Left/Right divide
Steve Hopkins • January 27th, 2011
The not-so-great midterm election season is over, and everybody’s still angry, including me. A few tea-partiers chipped away at the hated (and pretty much mythical) Liberazi firmament, while the Democratic faux-populists who remain are as committed as ever to the maintenance of our soul-crushing corporatocracy. This piece was originally melded into the Hudson Valley Chronic’s [...]
Dear sick-deviant-Paladino-hater-editor
Don T. Askington goes to bat for Carl Paladino -- or rather bends over for his bat ...
Don T. Askington • January 27th, 2011
I guess you think you have outsmarted me by printing my letters, but I am having the last laugh because I put secret messages in them that say that I hate you. I hope you go swimming in a sausage machine. I hope you try to kiss the inside of your snow blower. I may [...]
The Day the Earth Stood Still
... or Kingston, anyway, as Paladino & co. assault the heart of the Hudson Valley’s gay mainstream in a pre-election blitzkrieg
Steve Hopkins • January 27th, 2011
The money shot: in the above photograph taken on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 in Kingston NY, GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, flanked by Ulster County Republican Party chairwoman Robin Yess, ignores a friendly hello from farmer/activist Billiam Equality van Roestenberg as they give a wide berth to the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center while touring [...]
Big Government: Boogieman
Samuel Claiborne • January 27th, 2011
Big government is the new boogieman. Or should I say the old one. Ronald Reagan famously said that government is the problem, and this simplistic statement has found resonance with generations of conservatives, from the greedy elites, who adore the fallacies of trickle-down economics, to the angry populists of the tea party movement. When it comes to the tea [...]
It’s a dirty business
The fight for Zero-Waste in Dutchess County
Scott Patrick Humphrey • January 27th, 2011
Dutchess County has a lot of waste, a fact to which its fabled Resource Recovery Agency (DCRRA) can certainly attest. Yes, there’s waste in the form of 250,000 tons of trash produced annually by county residents and businesses. But more troubling is the millions of dollars the agency seems to mismanage each year, and the [...]
Beginning of an Era
Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market moving to Walkway, Pulaski Park in 2011
Steve Hopkins • January 26th, 2011
The Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market plans to relocate to the eastern entranceway of the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park and Pulaski Park in the City of Poughkeepsie next year as organizers seek to expand the popular market to reach more shoppers. The significantly larger market will be offered concurrently in two locations, from 3 [...]
