On Election Day, I exchanged e-mail with an irate Niskayuna Democrat who reached me indirectly. She said that she wasn’t going to vote this year because she was fed up with robocalls.

I love our county library. It is as simple as that.

The holiday season will soon be upon us, and the spirit of giving will hit its yearly pinnacle. I would like to share some ideas to provide Schenectady with a small economic boost yet create a big impact on those in need.

I really did not want to write another article concerning hydrofracking, but after seeing the latest Viewpoint column by Patricia O’Reilly Rush suggesting we should fear developing natural gas energy, I felt compelled to reply.

What do the young think about their government when they read of these cases of Hiram Monserrate and Joe Bruno?

“I’ll be glad when this is over.” I hated hearing those words. How could you not want to hold on to life?

Memory is a funny thing — enigmatic, selective, nebulous, concrete — a source of wonder to the scientifically untrained mind such as mine. You are the sole custodian of your memories and memory can be very selective. A story told many times may be embellished, even myth-like, if there is no one around to challenge your recollections.

Judges make decisions that affect all of us, yet when it comes time to vote for them, most of the time I don’t know enough about any of them to cast an intelligent ballot.

I wasn’t cut out for this. By “this” I mean the dreary outpouring of information, misinformation and disinformation around the subject of drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale.

While I do not pose as an expert on all aspects of the health care reform debate, there are several useful contributions that I can make to political sanity regarding comparisons with the Canadian health care system. My family and I have been traveling to our northern neighbor for over a quarter century. We join into a cooperative program with a group of Canadians for our vacation each summer.

The Capital Region has dodged the housing meltdown bullet so far. I would not count on this lasting much longer.

Before you call for more school time, you need to consider what experts want us to do with the time we already have. And these days, everybody’s an expert.

In fall, everyone celebrates the bright colors, the fresh nip in the air and the ear-catching sound of geese flying south. And I do share that joy of a Northeast autumn. I just wish it did not come with mice.

It first occurred to me during the ceremonies surrounding Walter Cronkite’s death and was then reinforced with the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy: Almost all of the major events that have happened during my lifetime have taken place in black and white.

For the second time this year, New York’s northernmost citizens face a special election to fill a seat in the House of Representatives.