Monday, October 27, 2025

LONG LIVE A FREE PRESS

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  Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” Think of the con...

The Great Dictator

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  Last night while channel serving, I was thrilled to stumble onto Charlie Chaplin’s brilliant 1940 anti-war, anti-fascist satire, The Great...
Monday, September 29, 2025

SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION

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  Words and photo by F LoBuono Authoritarian regimes, dictators, despots are often, but not always, fools. But none is foolish enough to giv...
Monday, September 1, 2025

ONE SMALL ACT

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  On another one of my frequent sojourns into the heart of the village of Nyack, I walked past an older woman sitting in front of one of the...

PRINCIPAL FINDS A PRICE

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  Hmmm. Let’s see. the Trump Administration sues the Paramount Corporation , the parent company of CBS , for $20 billion (yes, that’s BILLI...

A CONEY ISLAND MEMORY

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   HOT POTATO KNISHES, ICE COLD COKES HERE!   Words and photos F LoBuono Every summer, when we were kids, my mother would pack up my older s...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

For The Love of AC

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  Words and photo by F LoBuono We just weathered the first heatwave of the season, i.e., 3 or more consecutive days of temperatures above 90...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

MEMORIAL DAY REFLECTIONS 2025

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  F LoBuono Another Memorial Day has come and gone. My feelings towards that day, which have always been profound, have become even more so...

Born Different

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  F LoBuono I was born left-handed. I had no choice in the matter, it just was. As simple as that seems to most, it does qualify me as just ...

TAKE PRIDE

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  Words and Photo by F LoBuono June is PRIDE MONTH when we celebrate out brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, friends and lovers from the L...