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Stonewall National Monument’s Digital Erasure

February 21, 2025 by Editorial Staff 5 Comments

An Executive Order issued by President Trump has caused the National Park Service to remove mention of transgender and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage and other Park Service webpages associated with LGBTQ+ history.

Transgender and queer people led the Stonewall Uprising, which began on June 28, 1969, in response to what was then routine police raids on gay bars. The Stonewall Uprising is a key turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights movement in this country and around the world. [Read more…] about Stonewall National Monument’s Digital Erasure

Essex and Saratoga Counties Have Picked The Winner In The Last 7 Presidential Elections

March 9, 2024 by Peter Bauer Leave a Comment

2024 is a Presidential election year. It’s worth noting that we’re seeing something highly unusual in American life in the North Country. Two Adirondack counties, Saratoga and Essex, are among a handful of counties of more than 3,100 counties across the United States to have voted for the winner in each of the last seven Presidential elections from 1996 to 2020. [Read more…] about Essex and Saratoga Counties Have Picked The Winner In The Last 7 Presidential Elections

Big Cheese Politics: Federalist Cows Need Not Apply

November 15, 2023 by Milton Sernett Leave a Comment

A huge cheese is said to have sealed the election of Thomas Jefferson, who occupied the White House on January 1, 1802, after a bitter contest with his rival, the incumbent president and Federalist leader John Adams. It is an oft-told tale.

Upset by Puritan denunciations of Jefferson, Elder John Leland of the Baptist Church of Cheshire, Massachusetts, organized a communal effort to demonstrate support for Jeffersonian Democracy. [Read more…] about Big Cheese Politics: Federalist Cows Need Not Apply

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