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BY NORBERT RUG I ran a handyman type business part-time for 35 years until health problems caused me to quit. I put an ad in the paper for just one week and was as busy until the day I closed

BY NORBERT RUG I do Sudoku puzzles, crossword puzzles and write 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. I feel that keeping my brain healthy is as important as keeping my body healthy. I recently found some support for

BY NORBERT RUG In the 60’s and 70’s, the drinking age was 18 in New York, which meant I was sneaking into bars when I was 16, and I was not the exception. Live music was everywhere. I learned a

BY NORBERT RUG In early November there are two things that occur that I think should be eliminated. One is a throwback from days gone by. It is the switch from daylight saving time to standard time. The first Saturday

BY NORBERT RUG During the fall, food banks all across America remind people that hunger never goes away. Around the holidays they will see an increase in donations because people feel more charitable then but it is a twelve month

This week, the Empire Center for Public Policy released its annual Benchmarking New York report, comparing and ranking government tax, spending and debt levels for hundreds of counties, towns, cities and villages throughout New York. The Center also updated its unique Benchmarking New York web

BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Europe is at the center of a worldwide debate and conflict over the role of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the emergence of 5G technology. Within Europe, Germany occupies the most significant decision-making focal point. Germany has

New York’s Excelsior Scholarship, now offering tuition-free public college to students from families making up to $125,000 a year is “deeply flawed,” and the $119 million the state now budgets for Excelsior would be better spent on expanding the state’s

BY NORBERT RUG I have decided to age gracefully. Sure I have a few health problems, I need hearing aids to hear, glasses to see, I use a cane to walk, I have Peripheral Neuropathy and cancer. But these are

BY NORBERT RUG As a redhead, I was bullied when I was a child. Even today I can still hear the chants “Redhead, redhead fire in the woodshed”. This is the only one that was yelled at me that can

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior figures in his government — including Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould —  and several of his principal political operatives have been hounding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with appeals to censor a newspaper this week.

BY LUMA MUFLEH As the Trump administration continues to reduce the number of refugees the U.S. will admit each year, our leaders should look to Ohio for examples of how states should welcome and resettle refugees. With strong initiatives in

BY NORBERT RUG I was sitting, looking out my window one morning recently, watching the falling leaves fluttering by, and waving goodbye to the summer when my thoughts turned to Halloween at the end of the month. I am sure

In his early to late-20s, Justin Trudeau had a robust and wide-ranging sexual appetite — most especially for costumes and role play, a former classmate tells The Chronicle.  The two young men were close during their studies at McGill University and

BY BETH AKERS The Narrative “[My plan] forgives all student debt and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of getting a college education.”[1] — Bernie Sanders“The result [of rising college

BY E.J. McMAHON The billions of dollars funneled from New York’s treasury to movie and TV producers had no statistically significant impact on the industry’s employment in the Empire State through 2017, according to a new multi-state study of such tax incentives.

BY NOBERT RUG I have peripheral neuropathy from chemotherapy. This is customarily associated with symptoms like numbness pain, and tingling but there are other symptoms as well. The peripheral nervous system is composed of three different types of nerves. They

BY NORBERT RUG The day I decided to live my life to the fullest, to seize the day, and stop coasting through life was the day I was diagnosed with cancer over ten years ago. When my doctor informed me