In one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite books of all time, "Ball Four," its author, former New York Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton, makes the observation that if you were to die in a plane crash in Cleveland, better that it be on an incoming flight. The ...

You couldn't tell there's a crisis in the housing market by taking a ride on my road.

Nowhere does it see that officials act more childish than when it involves development. Grown men and women capable of running intricate municipal bureaucracies turn into vindictive 6-year-olds when they're fighting to bring a new business or residential development to town.

Some of the response to the tragic death of Eight Belles at the end of the Kentucky Derby is doing more to hurt the cause of animal rights than help.

OK, just to show that I am not completely a homer, I'll start right off by saying we dropped the ball big time this weekend on the big downtown fire in Fonda. While it may not have been as big a fire as the one that took down three old ...

It's kind of disheartening in looking back over my career to think how things haven't really changed that much.

I'll give you two reasons why we out in the sticks are being hit harder by the increase in gas prices.

A couple stories have caught my eye over the past few days as I slowly return to the land of the living (I would recommend a sinus infection only slightly more than root canal ... without an anesthetic). In Gloversville, there's word that one of the bellwethers of downtown, Dave ...

I'm spending the day in bed fighting off a nasty cold that doesn't seem to want to go away, but I wanted to pass along a brief bit of good news. As I was cuddled up under a comforter in my recliner this morning, I had a knock on my ...

I've been meaning to get around to this all week, but had other pressing things that kept me from it, so I'll leave this for everyone to chew on over the weekend. A very interesting letter to the editor showed up in The Leader-Herald last weekend from a woman who's ...