December 2019

Dec 1-31, 2019 / Vol. 22 / No. 32
Some stories covered in the November issue are food and drink, home and garden, health and wellness, outdoors, community pages, arts, and horoscopes. This month’s issue features are ‘A Slumlord in Newburgh’, ‘The Good Fighter’, and ‘Emerging Artists 2019’.

For Delgado, Politics Is the Art of Showing Up

Cairo, New York is not Antonio Delgado country. The town of about 6,500 people voted for his Republican opponent, John Faso, by a 34-percent margin in 2018. In Greene County as a whole, Delgado fared scarcely better: He got clobbered: 55.4 percent to 41.2 percent, one of his weakest county results on an otherwise victorious…

The Long-Awaited Arrival of Bail Reform

Days before his 17th birthday, Kalief Browder was arrested in the Bronx during a stop-and-frisk, booked, and charged with second-degree robbery: He had been accused of stealing a backpack. His bail was set at $3,000, which his family could not immediately pay. (Later, after they had borrowed the money, Browder’s bail was denied because he…

Food for Thought

Cafeteria workers in Minnesota have thrown children’s food in the trash in front of them. Elementary-school children in Alabama have had their arms stamped “I Need Lunch Money.” A teenager in Illinois was banned from the homecoming dance after racking up lunch debt because of a school accounting error. In one of the most extreme…

The Promise and Peril of Cow Power

The Hudson Valley is one of the most productive and oldest agricultural regions in the United States, but, like farmland everywhere in America, ours is increasingly threatened. A 2018 report, “Farms Under Threat: the State of America’s Farmlands,” by the American Farmland Trust and Conservation Science Partners, attempted to determine how much agricultural land was…

Fentanyl in the Hudson Valley

This article is copublished with The Other Hudson Valley, an independent news site. It was 18 years after Tim Gallagher* first tried opioids that he overdosed. His first taste followed a medical procedure when he was 14. In his later teenage years, Gallagher’s mother would sometimes give him a five milligram Percocet—a mild opioid painkiller—from…

A Rundown of Hudson Valley Events

Conversation about immigrants’ rights, musical events, and holiday hubbub—as always, there are so many happenings here in the region to work into to your itinerary. COMMUNITY Chronogram Conversations in Kingston Immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, are facing perilous conditions as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to target all undocumented immigrants and has recently stepped up…

We Paved Paradise

Parking is not an issue many people give much thought to—until they can’t find a place to park, an increasing problem in certain cities and towns in the region (one reason why many new development projects include building more parking spots). But you can’t write about forward-thinking development, especially in urban and suburban areas, and…


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