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Sullivan County Museum — "24th Theme Tree Exhibit" a

Judge Burton Ledina is the sort of ethical jurist Sullivan County needs and deserves.

Re-electing him means voters get to choose the next Sullivan County Court judge three years from now instead of a decade hence. His youthful opponent seeks to use Ledina's age against him, which is ageist and unfair.

Unlike the opposition, Ledina offers the benefit of 40 years judicial experience.

Your Jan. 3 item about the Monticello gym being closed because of violent intergang rivalries there did an injustice to the organizer of the free community basketball league whose players have lost out as a result of a few criminals.

I have known Jesse York for 19 years and feel that to say he "gets his street credibility by showing off his motorcycle and decked-out Nissan Armada and talking of his stint in prison for drug dealing" is shallow, inadequate, and plays to stereotypes.

At first glance, the prominent

The desperation given eloquent voice by Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans speaks to the ineffectual leadership in Washington. It's unfortunate that Nagin is not sitting in the White House rather than in a city in ruins.

Bush took advantage of 9/11 to rationalize his looting and conquest of Iraq. He led us into a pointless war against a country that had not attacked us, and has wasted billions of dollars and thousands of barrels of innocent blood to portray himself as a patriotic "wartime president" while pursuing imperialist objectives in the Middle East.

It's good to see some positive cove

For the Village of Monticello and T

Monticello's new bicentennial journal is well-produced and written, but disappointing. While historian John Conway deserves credit for his original narratives, village officials with final say over the book's overall content have reduced it to a promotion for local good ol' boys. We could have seen more (even anything) on the role of people of color in building Monticello, 1804 to present. Apart from paid ads, the only black face in the book is that of Chubby Checker, who once visited.

What will be the cost of this war of aggression that our appointed president proposes? And who will benefit?

Global alliances are shifting. Coalitions of Eastern nations — uniting radicals with "old" European friends — are born amid a tide of outrage at American recklessness. As populations shift, is Europe's future predominantly Muslim?