By Bob Gaydos
Ten years ago, I wrote a column about what I see as the synchronistic connection between myself and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, beginning with the fact we share the same birth date, May 29. The key point in the column, at least to me, was my pledge “to remember to honor him not on the date he died, but on the date we both were born.”

By Bob Gaydos
This column is clearly an intersection of synchronicity and what an editor once told me a long time ago: Every story is local.

By Bob Gaydos
Routinely scrolling through my daily emails, I was surprised to find a message that was the highlight of the week: An invitation to dinner with a former president of the United States of America. Wow, I thought, that doesn’t happen a lot. In fact, it’s never happened to me.

By Bob Gaydos
The Biden campaign message is that he will save democracy now for the younger, more energetic Democrats who follow him to improve on a little later. Be patient.

By Bob Gaydos
Maurice Hinchey built a reputation in his 17 years in the State Legislature as the premier champion and defender of the environment in New York State. His legacy is unassailable.

By Bob Gaydos
Participatory democracies don’t do well on dumb and lazy. They wind up being ripe for exploitation by authoritarian thugs.

By Bob Gaydos
How, in the name of basic common sense, could a young man apparently unable or uninterested in making vital national security distinctions be granted access to so much “secret” information?

By Bob Gaydos
The CDC notes that “studies show a relationship between underage drinking behaviors and the drinking behaviors of adult relatives, adults in the same household, and adults in the same community and state.”

By Bob Gaydos
Getting arrested because a porn star tried to shake him down and he had his lawyer pay her off to keep her mouth shut so he could steal an election and get to live in the White House? That’s a made-for-TV movie. That’s Trump’s entire life in a mini-series.

By Bob Gaydos
Catching up with other news while on Trump indictment watch: Holding hostages hostage for Reagan; Republican ageism; Power Slaps! and pornographic Michelangelo. Only in America.