Photography by Rich Gigli
Stairway to the Stars

By Michael Kaufman
Idi Amin, Mickey Mouse, a conspiracy to fix the price of wooden toilet seats … and more.

By Beth Quinn
If there is anyone in the world who was probably thrilled at the news of Michael Jackson’s death last week, it had to be Mark Sanford. Jacko didn’t quite push Jackass off page 1, but his death did divert the media’s attention from the weepy South Carolina governor for a few minutes.

By Beth Quinn
I fear we are all losing the will to live. For those of you outside the mid-Hudson, we’ve had six days of sunshine since life began on Earth. When I look at the National Weather Service map, I see only pictures of Thor throwing tiny little lightning bolts and God bowling in heaven.

By Bob Gaydos
The problem in this country is that we talk too much about problems, not enough about solutions. Are you listening cable heads?

Paintings by Carrie Jacobson
Fireflies

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Within every crisis is the opportunity for growth, and the current economic crisis offers a chance to build our local economies after decades of building credit-bubble economics.

By Carrie Jacobson
Chapter 4
“The Travels of Zoe, the Wonder Dog” is a fictional serial that follows Zoe, a mostly blind lhasa apso, as she looks for love and a home in the mid-Hudson Valley. This is a fictional serial. Though it takes place in the Mid-Hudson, and many of the places are identifiable, the story and the characters in it are fully fictional. Any resemblance to real-life people, events or businesses is purely coincidental.

By Jeffrey Page
The boys and girls of the State Senate are having fun at our expense.

Photography by Rich Gigli
Hands That Touch