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Sarah Klee Hood

Column: Who is Sarah Klee Hood and why are Voters so Excited About Her?

By Ron Klopfanstein | Columnist   “The status quo is not working,” Sarah Klee Hood says. “We need change and we need energy.” Klee Hood is running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York’s newly reconfigured...

Revived Democratic party in Rural Westmoreland : By Ron Klopfanstein

Revived Democratic party in Rural Westmoreland: By Ron Klopfanstein  On a warm fall evening in Westmoreland, the rural town’s Democratic Party, and perhaps democracy itself, jolted back to life on Bernie and Denise Szarek’s picturesque...

New faces seek to fill the void left by Anthony Brindisi by Ron Klopfanstein...

By Ron Klopfanstein and Ethan Pavlus New faces seek to fill the void left by Anthony Brindisi      On Thursday, June 24th, Syracuse.com broke the news that former United States Congressman Anthony Brindisi would not be...

The First Time We Had Pride

By Ron Klopfanstein   The first swell of rainbows, the Utica Gay Pride Parade of 1998 Twenty-three years ago,  That Place on Bleeker Street was the “gay bar” in the area and the only safe space to...

Streaming Something Rotten, Utica College Theatre Department meets the challenge of COVID

By Ron Klopfanstein Cailee Blackington is a freshman at Utica College. She is majoring in Communications and Media with a Theater concentration and Animal Behavior. You can catch one of her performances this weekend. It...

Faces of COVID Vaccine Diaries

Faces of COVID, pt. 6: Vaccine Diaries By Ron Klopfanstein I am writing this column on Monday, March 29th. Sweat is running down my back, yet at the same time, my hands are cold as I...

The Curious Case of Rose Grimaldi and Carolann Cardone

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By Ron Klopfanstein Two days after the failed coup attempt in Washington, Patrick Lohmann, a reporter for Syracuse.com broke staggering political news closer to home. “700 votes were tossed in Oneida County. Officials ignored state law...