On Tuesday at an Astoria City Council work session, community members and the city council listened to a presentation by Jordan Schnitzer, president of the Friends of the Astoria Column. He was there ...

David Brooks recently retired from writing his regular column (twice weekly for about 30 years) in the New York Times. He was a wise, principled conservative — neither a right-wing nor a left-wing ...

Do you have rules that you live by? Think about it. While we have been snow-bound I have used some of that time to go through my book shelves and discard, read, re-read, donate or otherwise glean my ...

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