By Carrie Jacobson
Usually, I have the idea before I choose the canvas. But sometimes, the canvas dictates the idea.

Summer came into town so quietly, I hardly noticed. But soon, the summer sun is going to start to set earlier.

By Bill Hogan
Two Takes

By Jeffrey Page
This doesn’t sound revolutionary. In fact, it sounds like what most responsible parents would serve their children.

By Michael Kaufman
By the time anyone is finished trying to unravel the seemingly endless tangled web of deceit involved, it seems nearly certain that Orange County will soon be home to a lavish, world-class casino resort hotel. The only question is where it will be built, and some of the options are frightening.

By Jeffrey Page
One estimate: There’s 1,500 tons of radioactive waste at Indian Point and no place to put it.

By Bill Hogan
Extra special talking heads.

By Michael Kaufman
Orange County residents were led to believe that any new casinos designated for construction in our region would be erected in Sullivan County, still reeling from the demise of the great Borscht Belt hotels of yore, or in neighboring Ulster. Perhaps this is why Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus kept his mouth shut until after the election before he began shamelessly extolling the advantages of Orange.

By Bill Hogan
Hard choices

By Michael Kaufman
The thing that annoys me most, however, about baseball this season is not the overbearing advertising or the Mets changing radio stations. Rather, it is the increasing use of video replays to determine if an umpire has made the correct call.