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.

By Jeffrey Page
Some would call it child abuse and they would be right.

By Patrick Gallagher
The first steps towards clean and sustainable energy independence are going to have to come from a sea change in how we subsidize the choices we make.

High Flyers

By Gretchen Gibbs
Northerners didn’t need slave labor the way the plantations needed it, but that didn’t prevent them from using it when they could.

By Carrie Jacobson
I’ve learned there was a hobo in the family – and it explains a lot to me.

By Bob Gaydos
How do nearly 300 girls get kidnapped in Nigeria and and no one hears about it?

By Jeffrey Page
The official line: America is where a Jew can be a Jew, a Sikh can be a Sikh.

By Michael Kaufman
The lawsuit, filed by Michael Sussman on behalf of Valley View residents, employees, not to mention most people in Orange County, has yet to be decided. But the last time the county legislators tangled with Sussman they didn’t do so hot.

Help me name this painting!