About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
I'm sorry, but the largest pool of criminals comes from those who have never committed a crime. Why not take everyone's DNA? If that's offensive, then, in my eyes, it is no less offensive to take it from those who have committed petty offenses.
There was a time in America when educated people considered it unwise and impolite to degrade the religious beliefs of others. Many considered attacks on these to completely unproductive.
I acknowledge that there have always been people who have earned their livings by mocking and confronting taboos, and I completely defend their right--at least inherent if not God-given--to do it. But ignoring taboos usually has consequences and I expect, Mr. Strock, that you're about to suffer some more of those. It's a professional hazard, I know, but a well deserved one.
Speaking of the post office, it took 10 calendar days for the post office to deliver a 1 ounce, first-class letter from 650 miles away in Ohio. What's up with that?
Why should the state pay the costs of preventing local school districts from cheating? The cheaters are in the local school districts, not the state, hence, the local school districts should pay the reasonable costs of cheater prevention.
Every school district in Schenectady County should pay a fee to the county attorney's office to pay for legal services and end the practice of hiring private attorneys.
The issue is, or should be, TOTAL taxes, right? Sales, use, property, excise, Social Security, medicare and local, state and federal income taxes. Add it all up. The people who pay the highest percentage of their incomes on taxes are generally the lowest paid workers having just enough income to disqualify them from government assistance and tax credits. This should surprise nobody. These people don't have lobbyists or unions. They get little representation from legislators. They absolutely get the worst deal of all.
I support tax increases with spending cuts but the tax increases must only be used to pay off the debt. They must not be used to raise the salaries and benefits of federal employees.
There is no right to be free from religious influence.
People of faith have a right to express their viewpoints and to have them enacted into law as long as they don't constitute an establishment of religion.
Posted on January 10 at 7:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm sorry, but the largest pool of criminals comes from those who have never committed a crime. Why not take everyone's DNA? If that's offensive, then, in my eyes, it is no less offensive to take it from those who have committed petty offenses.
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