Posts by Jordan Phillippe

For the **Date:** 01-20-25 --- I’m heading ‘round the far turn and in sight of the finish line. Me, not the work. The work isn’t close. Soon there will be…

Let’s Share a Song of Fellowship **Date:** 12-24-24 --- *Someone's crying, my Lord, **K**umbaya** Someone's dreaming, my Lord, **K**umbaya** Someone's singing, my Lord, **K**umbaya**** ****Oh Lord, **K**umbaya* It’s often sarcastically…

It’s **Date:** 11-26-24 --- If you compared small and medium sized upstate New York cities, you might be shocked. Despite all our gnashing of teeth over the budget, financially we…

Our **Date:** 10-29-24 --- *An important note: This is your mayor’s vision. The Council will decide. * Pressure makes diamonds. But it’s in the carving that a diamond shines. There…

600 words **Date:** 10-01-24 --- Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize It *can* be done, and Oneonta can show others the way. In these days of rancor, we can be…

**Date:** 09-09-24 --- 643 words As the Seasons Change, So Can We Soon the hills will be resplendent in a blaze of vivid colors. On some the earliest harbingers of…

Damn **Date:** 09-03-24 --- Sixty-four years ago, I was a first grader riding the bus and awed by the “big kids” who laid claim to the wide bench seat in…

And Now, Here We Are **Date:** 08-06-24 --- It’s taken awhile for the concept of the “Oneonta Downtown Renaissance” to take hold in the public’s imagination, but I believe we’ve…

Succeeding in the Age of Disinformation **Date:** 07-09-24 --- *"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - **George Bernard Shaw* The observation is nearly one hundred years…

In Pursuit of Collaboration and our Better Angels **Date:** 06-11-24 --- The depressing reality that informs our every day is a national disconnection from what should be shared truths, and…