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I was interested in last week’s comment urging NV residents to attend meetings. Over the years, I’ve spoken to a number of citizens who would like to be engaged, but they’ve given up. Why? Because their voices are not welcome and will not be heard. Additionally, transparency and truthfulness are in rare supply from our local politicians. The Mayor can spend taxpayer money on items he wants. He has always said he likes to spend money on big items, even when many village taxpayers cannot afford their tax bills. Think I’m wrong? Remember the tax increase of 21% a few years ago?
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I don’t believe that the vaccine mandates in schools in New York are right. Why did they take away the religious exemptions? In 2019, so many kids got thrown out of public and private schools. Is there anything anyone can do about this? I am in the 7th grade, so there’s not too much I can do about it, but I’m sure there are some people and politicians out there that might. Thank you!
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Congratulations to all the athletes and the athletics department in Owego for finally bringing our sports program back to the top. It’s definitely a credit to the athletic director and his current staff and coaches for turning this program around.
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I was going to buy/install two heat pumps, but with the way my electric bill has been lately, I just said no! After the Scamdemic, every company has just gotten greedy.
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A thought came to me about getting rid of the penny. TAXES come to mind. I realized that taxes wouldn’t go lower. They would have to go higher because instead of 8% they would jump to 10%. That means property, school, income, along with sales tax. So, if you think you don’t have enough money now, wait until the penny is gone.
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Attention Ukulele Players: The Tioga Ukulele Group’s next adult jam session is scheduled for June 14, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Coburn Free Library, Main Street, Owego. All levels of players are welcome to join us, from beginners to accomplished ukulele players. For more information or to receive music ahead of the jam session, please contact us at (607) 321-8815 or (607) 743-9803, or send an email to TiogaUkuleleGroup@yahoo.com.
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It’s so great to hear military aircraft flying around overhead just doing their normal testing and work to keep us all safe. To all the military folks who are in the area, thank you very much for taking care of us in our country. God bless you! Everybody have a great day.
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I thought at one time that in the state of New York that the elderly could get the internet at a cheaper rate. I was at a gentleman’s house the other day, 69 years old with COPD, Frontier is charging that guy $90 a month just to have Wi-Fi. Can you imagine? Where are all your elected officials? Something’s gotta happen! What is wrong with this state? You gotta step up and protect your people. Frontier should be ashamed of what they’re doing.
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I’m calling about the pull tabs that someone was saving to donate to the Ronald McDonald House. I would be glad to take them. You can call me at (607) 621-7106.
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Praise Jesus, He will be coming back very soon to save His people.
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I attended the Rivers of Imagination art show last night. It was so good! There was a great turnout, and there was so much great talent from these young artists. The displays were great. I just have two suggestions for next year. One, we need some music and maybe some order or direction on where to find an age group or class. I would guess the randomness was to encourage us to look at everything. But I saw many disappointed little faces because they couldn’t find their masterpieces. Thank you.
National Political Viewpoints
Who decided that a state or city would be a Sanctuary state or city, was there a vote by the citizens who would be impacted or lobbies and politicians?
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If brains were gasoline, democrats couldn’t run an ants go-kart around a cheerio. — Studebaker Hawk
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“The GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bind,’ one of the most spectacular feats Republicans in Congress have managed to achieve, is coming up with a spending bill with the potential to grow the deficit and starve children.” — Vanity Fair, May 29, 2025
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If the richest man thinks this bill is a bad idea, maybe the President should listen. Isn’t that why Musk was brought in, to help make the government spend money better?
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I would love to see them investigate how many Democrats have stocks and shares in the climate green deal. Somebody, please check that out. I will guarantee you that all the Democrats have stocks and shares. That’s why it’s pushed so hard. They are going for some kind of big prize, some kind of big trophy. That’s what this is all about. We all know it’s a bogus bunch of crap, but somebody needs to investigate it and let the public know just how many shares these Democrats have. That’s why it’s pushed so hard.
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If anybody needs to be voted out of office, it’s Nick Langworthy. He has done nothing but vote 100% of the time for Trump’s stupid, illegal functions and bills he puts out there, and everything else. All he is is a yes man. Why do we even have him? Why don’t we just let Trump have one more vote and save the $2-$300,000. He’s good for nothing. He doesn’t do what the will of the people wants; he does just what Donald Trump wants. So, get rid of him! Let’s get anybody else in there; I don’t care who it is.
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Now that bully Trump likes to give people nicknames, I see he’s got one for himself called Taco. Trump always chickens out when referring to all these tariffs. First he wanted a 150% tariff, then half that, then half that again. So he got himself a new nickname, and it’s getting under his skin. You can see it’s quite obvious. So what goes around comes around.
The main purposes of a “sanctuary city” is to help law enforcement and give immigrants the ability to work on the books so they can pay taxes and Social Security.
Immigrants can’t collect Social Security even though they’ve paid into Social Security.
Immigrants are going to be there. When they witness a crime in a sanctuary city they can cooperate with police, without being deported.
There are NO illegal immigrants on Medicaid.
Please remember, fox paid 3 quarters of a billion dollars for knowingly and maliciously lying about the 2020 election. Why do you believe fox when they tell you MSM outlets are fake news.
Paying $787,500,000.00 for knowingly spreading lies about the 2020 election is the textbook definition of fake news?
Ivan Hunter, the right-wing extremist who started the Minneapolis police station fire during the George Floyd protests. He also admitted to firing 13 rounds into the Minneapolis police station. Tried to frame BLM and ANTIFA landed in prison.
S. Carrillo and A. Justus, 2 right-wing extremists who assassinated 2 of the 3 cops killed during the George Floyd protests. They were trying to frame BLM and ANTIFA and start a civil war. All 3 are boogaloo bois.
They worked with proud boys during the George Floyd protests. Patriot Prayer Group, Joey Gibson. They caused most of the riots in Portland during the George Floyd protests.
A couple of weeks before Homan sent gestapo to kidnap immigrants going through the legal immigration process, Trump called Enrique Tarrio to Mar a Lago. Coincidence? I think not.
Immigrants at Ambiance Apparel and leaving their asylum hearings were taken to detention centers by Trump’s gestapo.
No hyperbole here, immigrants were taken as they left their asylum hearings. The “bad hombres” aren’t the immigrants working as seamstresses or showing up for their asylum hearings.
Ambiance owner said he only hires immigrants with legal work status. They took 46 from his factory.
Now the Trump regime is defaming this company.
They’re saying Ambiance Apparel was laundering money, they only took immigrants going through the legal process. No arrests for money laundering.
I sure hope the Strawberry Festival doesn’t count on strawberries from California. Trump’s Gestapo are chasing those “bad hombre” strawberry pickers, through fields.
I’m not for the criminal immigrants Trump told you were coming to America.
I’m trying to explain that trump lied about the “bad hombres” coming to America.
Republicans have obstructed bipartisan immigration reform bills back to Bush in 2006.
Those House Republicans obstructed bipartisan immigration reform that passed the Senate – 62-36.
In 2013-14, House Republicans blocked a bipartisan immigration reform bill that passed the Senate – 68-32.
In 2024, Trump told Republicans to block a bipartisan immigration reform. A bill that one of the most conservative members of the Republican Party worked on and strongly endorsed.
Now we’re violating Posse Comitatus like there’s no such thing.
If you watched any of the budget hearings with Hegseth, he proved me right. He’s a junior high bully, liar and a Christian crusader bent on attacking Iran.
It is hysterical how the Republicans who swear they’re good Christians are the worst, most flagrantly disrespectful liars we’ve ever had as a group in Congress. DEI hire Hegseth leads the way.
Trump makes Nixon look like a choirboy, W. Bush look like a genius and Benedict Arnold look like the hero of the American Revolution.
It wasn’t us libs or MSM outlets lying. Trump and his propaganda machines are still lying to you.
I find it a little confusing. Some MAGA who voted to go to war with Iran said if I had a full tank of gas,,blah blah blah. Are you kidding me. MAGA doesn’t have a brain the size of a damn Cheerio yet the pennysaver is allowing MAGA to continue to spew antagonistic rhetoric when there’s Marines ILLEGALLY deployed to Los Angeles. THIS ISN’T A GAME.
10-USC-12406 requires a request from the governor.
Hegseth spent nearly $1 billion in weaponry during his 40 day, private Christian crusade in Yemen. That’s not counting 7-8 Reaper drones at $30M a piece and 3 F-18 Hornets being destroyed. $67M a pop for the Hornets.
Hegseth is bragging, not 1 commercial ship with an American flag has gone through the Red Sea since.
Iran attacked American troops with 13-16 ballistic missiles in Iraq after netanyahu got trump to assassinate Soleimani.
Trump pulled out of JCPOA when Iran was complying 100%.
netanyahu got trump to pull out of JCPOA.
netanyahu couldn’t go to war with Iran if they had no weapons grade uranium.
netanyahu is the only world leader who wanted Trump to pull out of JCPOA.
Yo MAGA, you really owned us libs, huh!
I told you trump was kidnapping immigrants going through the legal process. Now we know that was correct.
TOLD you we’d be going to war with Iran. It’s here.
I bet those great recruiting numbers end and many MAGA Christian crusaders who joined to go after their fellow Americans are going AWOL before they get to boot camp. They didn’t sign up to go to war for netanyahu or against a real military. They thought they’d be doing what trump is trying to get Guard troops to do in Los Angeles.
You’re not a tough guy when you run around threatening a civilian population like the radical islamic terrorists do. You’re American Taliban, talibangelical.
Dude, no one is reading your lengthy posts. Attempt to be more concise and precise.
This isn’t to antagonize Christians.
I believe the story of Lot is proof God is pro choice.
God told Lot to take his wife to a priest to use bitter water if he suspected his wife was carrying another man’s child.
That’s not an interpretation, it is the story of Lot.
Instead of saying I couldn’t drive an ant sized go-kart around a cheerio why not tell me why you disagree.
By the way, you’d be right, even though I’m not too big, I’d crush an ant sized go-kart if I tried to drive around a cheerio. I’d probably eat the cheerio,, love me some Cheerios,lol. I’m interested why people disagree with me about God being pro choice. I want to awaken critical thinking in people who use a media outlet that paid 3 Quarters Of A Billion Dollars for knowingly and maliciously lying.
Lot was told to get an abortion if he thought his wife cheated.
There are 10 Republican states that force rape and molestation victims to carry her rapist’s kid to birth.
I don’t know about you but to me, rape is much worse than a cheating wife.
Republicans started catering to the ultra rich Americans under Reagan.
Every Republican administration has left America in a recession. Each recession has gotten worse.
That’s why the Republican Party uses culture wars to get votes.
The Republican Party started using abortion around the time Reagan met alone with Gorbachev.
That is also around the time Reagan introduced Trump to Gorbachev, 1987.
When Reagan destroyed the tax code in favor of the billionaires of now.
The billionaires, both Bushes and Trump passed a tax scam for. A tax scam that led to a recession.
If you disagree about Reagan and the timeline, please use the encyclopedia in your phone.
We need to stop falling for the division billionaires pay the right-wing propaganda machines to deepen. Deepen so we don’t realize the greedy billionaires run the Republican Party and their propagandists.
Marines in the streets should be a red line for every American.
MAGA, you need to be very ashamed of yourselves. Especially MAGA Christians. Read the Beatitudes. Notice how your talibangelical preachers ignore the Beatitudes or pretend they’re being what Jesus speaks about.
Here’s what you did to legal Did you honestly believe Trump’s claims about countries emptying their prisons and asylums to send them to America?
Judges are dropping legal asylum claims so Trump’s gestapo can arrest them at the court house.
The “bad hombres” don’t go through the legal immigration process.
Trump’s gestapo are taking whole families who are going through the legal process. Grandma seamstress, 46 were taken from Ambiance Apparel.
Immigrants who have been contributing to America for decades in some cases, their employers are heartbroken.
Most Americans can’t live up to the requirements a DACA recipient must.
I think it is ridiculous to offer DACA recipients free college, we don’t give Americans free college. Dems are trying to make that happen. Republicans are attacking college. If you believe that little Nazi, S. Miller is concerned about antisemitism on college campuses, Google Miller. They’re trying to fulfill a Hitler goal. The youth, they’re trying to control the youth with indoctrination in schools.
Remember, fascist playbook 101, accuse your enemies of what you’re doing. Then believe your own eyes and ears.
Who said Dems wanted a new world order?
The Republican Party did
Who is actually destroying America’s alliances that have lasted anywhere from a decade or 2(Iraq) most are 80 to 250 year old alliances.
DEI hire Hegseth wants to pull out of the AUKUS Agreement.
That alliance is to keep China in check. It is an extremely important treaty.
MAGA,, please start calling your Reps.
MAGA can’t name 1 Republican policy that helps all Americans. Because there are none.
Forcing rape and molestation victims to carry her rapist’s kid is very unpopular, like 80% of Americans know it is nazi behavior.
Did you happen to see what a fool Stefanik made of herself while trying to attack Hocul?
Stefanik is so clueless she started reading names of immigrants who committed crimes in NYS expecting Hocul to know who they were. Google, crime rate for immigrants compared to American citizens. We far out distance immigrants in crime. It’s a matter of averages, there’s many more Americans than immigrants in America.
Then Stefanik brought up some criminal immigrant in the Chenango County jail.
She blamed Hocul for the MAGA, Chenango County sheriff who broke NYS law by not turning the immigrant over to ICE.
It was a set-up, the MAGA Chenango County sheriff knew the hearing was coming so he threw a wrench in the works. He personally stopped ICE and violated NYS law.
I’d love to hear the conversation between Hocul and the Chenango County sheriff, the day after the hearing MAGA boi sheriff was forced to publicly announce he had ICE coming for that immigrant.
Who votes for people like Stefanik, Gaetz, Stefanik, MTG,, Boebert, Comer Pyle, Gymmy Jordan?
Ckaudia Tenney and Lee Zeldin work for Koch brother,, not Americans.
Look at what Zeldin is doing to clean energy in NYS.
We’re not backwoods people who don’t know the need to transition from fossil fuels to green energy.
Southern, lost in the woods MAGA actually buy Trump’s lies about “when the wind isn’t blowing your electricity shuts off if you’re on an energy grid using wind turbines. Same with solar panels. Trump has brainwashed a lot of MAGA into believing you lose your electricity on a cloudy day. That wind turbines cause cancer.
I’m not trying to be insulting to backwoods MAGA, I’m telling you what they’re saying online, it is hard to avoid being insulting with people living in a universe that only exists in MAGA brainwashed mind’s. I’m not talking about typing these insane thoughts, they’re talking like that.
There are YouTube channels where MAGA are verbally holding these thoughts and beliefs about green energy.
ParkerGetAJob is one of those YouTube channels.If you want to see how brainwashed some MAGA are, watch Parker try to get truth into the backwoods MAGA you vote with, NYS MAGA, you’re not them, they’ve been damaged by lying Republicans and their local news who cater to Trumputin and his Russianpublikkkan Party of Nazi insurrectionists.
Why would anyone hate Sesame Street, MAGA politicians have been trying to end PBS since before 2017 they’ve just been trying harder with trump in the Oval Office. An educated population is crushing to a dictator.
We’re way past day 1 and trump illegally deployed Marines and Guard troops using a US code that requires a request from the governor.
Yesterday I saw Nazis wearing Marine uniforms.
Hey Troop, you’re a Nazi if you follow Trump’s unlawful orders to detain American citizens. That’s what Hitler’s Nazis did. I’ll bet Hitler’s Nazis wished they could wear a mask to hide their identity like Trump’s Nazi ICE troops are wearing.
Hitler’s Nazis couldn’t get out of Nuremberg by saying, “I was just following orders” like Trump’s Nazis think they’ll be able to do because we don’t know who or what is behind the masks of Trump’s Nazis.
Have you seen Trump’s promise to stop WWIII by bringing peace to Ukraine and the Middle East?
TRUMP gave Putin permission to kill more Ukrainian civilians by saying something about Putin is going to retaliate bad for operation “Spider Web” which was that attack on military targets deep inside Russia.
I saw the day trump gave netanyahu permission to attack Iran. If you watch that press conference from the Oval Office. Tell me Trump’s wasn’t acting squirrelly.
I had hoped that Hegseth losing 7-8 Reaper drones and 3-FA18 Hornets might stop netanyahu’s attack on Iran and keep American troops out of war.I knew that was a fruitless hope because netanyahu has been actively trying to get America to attack Iran since 2017. The Soleimani assassination and talking trump into pulling out of JCPOA were attempts.
If trump doesn’t pull out of JCPOA, there’s no way the American people would support going to war with Iran.
Our great friend, Israel, made sure to announce the Trump regime was fully onboard and complicit in netanyahu’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities.
There was no reason for that declaration of war on Iran.
MAGA Republicans told you to look at the “pallet of cash” going to Iran when President Obama negotiated JCPOA.
You watched fox, you may not know Iran gave up all their weapons grade uranium for JCPOA.
Iran complied with JCPOA 100%. IAEA verified Iran was complying 100%.
Iran was only enriching uranium for energy.
*Energy grade uranium is less than 4% enrichment.
*Weapons grade uranium is over 90% enrichment.
Iran wanted peace so much they complied with JCPOA for a year and a half after trump pulled out of JCPOA.
The war in Iran was intentionally caused by netanyahu. He was the only world leader against JCPOA.
You see, netanyahu couldn’t use a 3,500 year old book written by Jewish people to simply take Iran, so netanyahu has been doing anything and everything he can think of to get America to go to war with Iran.
Can I have your house if I have a 3,500 year old book written by Jewish people that says the entire Middle East belongs to me? I’m not antisemitic, I am anti-zionist. You can’t have my home if you bring a 3,500 year old book written by Jewish people. There are zionist Catholics and Christians, they’re the ones supporting netanyahu’s murderous actions in Palestine. You know, so Jesus can return. Jewish people and zionists are not the same.
What would happen if Russia displaced 750,000 Americans because of a 3,500 year old book written by Jewish people.
That’s what happened in Palestine in 1948. Except it wasn’t Russia who displaced 750,000 Palestinians, it was America and our allies.
That started somewhere between 1905 and 1913 when the newly released version of the Christian Bible called the Holy Lands Palestine. By 1913 that Bible was scrapped for a Bible calling the Holy Lands Israel.
I didn’t think the Bible was reprinted every 8 years, did you?
It is very hard to say, people who claim to be a Christian are the biggest liars in America. Unless it’s true.
Mike Johnson is a traitor and an arrogant liar. I hate that he thinks Americans are stupid enough to believe some of his most flagrant lies.
He was an architect of the Russianpublikkkan court battles over the 2020 election.
60 cases in front of over 80 judges said 2020 was a free and fair election. At least 8 of those judges were appointed by Trump.
A larger number were appointed by a Republican, Reagan and both Bushes.
moses Johnson actually said God raised him up to be Trump’s Moses.
That is delusional bordering on mental illness.
On a lighter note.
Why did the Speaker of the House cross the road,, answer next week lol.
Answer,, Mike’s johnson was stuck in the chicken.
Bad dad joke I stole from Bruce Willis in The Last Boy scout. Modified it a little, too.
MAGA it is past time to stop pretending you believe anything from the Russianpublikkkan Party of Trumputin. Trump and moses Johnson are knowingly and maliciously lying about Trump’s economy being the best. Obama and Biden economic numbers crushed Trump’s. You thought it was great because fox and the Republican Party tell you the economy is bad under Dems and great under Republicans.
Every statistic proves you’re brainwashed or too lazy to research if you believe the Republican Party is better for the economy.
You can do research using full questions or “key words” in what you’re researching.
If there is a terrorist attack in America you can be sure of 1 thing.
The first words out of Trump’s mouth, every Russianpublikkkan will echo, it’s Biden’s fault.
Patel is dismantling our FBI intelligence department.
Noem thinks her job is dress up Barbie outings.
Bongino just saw very disturbing things in the Epstein files. I tend to believe he didn’t know how involved trump and Epstein were. I thought he was going to cry during the interview about the Epstein files.
Trump’s agency heads are shuttering all kinds of intelligence capabilities at the FBI..
Patel said he was going to end FBI intelligence departments. If you want to know why, Google, Patel caught talking to American adversaries. Not just caught 1X or with only 1 adversarial country.
If a terrorist attack happens, use your head. Biden is not in the Oval Office.
Iran put out a statement, they will hold the American government accountable for netanyahu’s attack on Iran.
They know America is complicit.
Did you know American military engineers modified the bombers Israel used?
They were modified so they didn’t need midair refueling. Iran likely read the same unclassified article I read this morning.
Nobody had to say Americans were involved in the modifications. They did that so Iran would know America is complicit and an open target for Iran.
Early on I commented, MAGA knows not what they’ve done to America.
You’re about to start finding out.
MAGA, you have to live with what you’ve done to everyone that means anything to you. You are responsible for what’s coming. You didn’t own me, you screwed us all.
I’m pretty sure there’s something about a military draft in Project 2025.
Were they psychic or planning this attack on Iran.
You put trump in the Oval Office,he makes hateful people feel empowered to commit the violent acts. No protestor violence at any “no king” protests. There was a few MAGA violent attacks over the weekend.
YouTube channel, Meidas Touch put out a video showing why the right-wing propaganda machines are still talking about Biden.
It shows some of the dementia moments trump had while fox was going on about Biden.
I tried to get truth out. I think many knew the truth and pretended they didn’t.
You may have put the world on a horrible course.
Tariffs are a tax on Americans. Trump knowingly and maliciously lies about tariffs. He knows we pay the tariffs not China or any country.
Trump tells you China pays the tariffs then he tells Walmart to eat the tariffs. Huh.
That’s knowingly and maliciously lying about tariffs, while showing how little respect he has for his voters and America.
Hassett said tariffs are permanent.
Bessent and Ludick are bragging about how much they’re making from Americans paying Trump’s tax/tariffs. Billions.
Today at the G7 Trump told us tariffs are in place until he’s out of the Oval Office. His words.
You voted for someone attacking the G7 because Putin isn’t part of the G7 anymore.
I know Russia was kicked out of the G8 for illegally annexing Crimea, Ukraine in 2014.
Why doesn’t the wannabe dictator in the Oval Office know that?
Dirt in our face, Russians were also banned from the White House in 2014.
The first Russian in the Oval Office was in 2017, when trump gave Russians highly sensitive classified intelligence in the Oval Office.
Some of you hated so much that’s what you did to yourselves.