Sunday opinion:
Flooding is still on everyone’s mind this weekend, as waters continue to rise in some places while receding in others.
The Adirondack Daily-Enterprise praises its reporters for their hard work covering the story and gives special thanks to everyone pitching in during a crisis:
Enterprise workers’ efforts are little compared to those of the business and home owners who have fought the waters constantly these last few days, hoping only to mitigate the water damage somewhat; or the firefighters who drove an hour from northern Franklin County to make and lay sandbags in Saranac Lake; or the police officers and workers who painstakingly monitored the water across state Route 3/30, a crucial North Country passage that would take two hours to detour; or the public-service workers who stayed up all night pumping out basements, evacuating houses, protecting structures and fiddling with dam releases; or the people who had to evacuate and are now staying in hotels, or imposing on friends and family.
Meanwhile, the Glens Falls Post-Star slams NY Attorney General Eric Schneidermann for intervening in the Adirondack Park Agency’s dispute with Essex County resident Sandy Lewis:
In a move that smacks of the kind of arrogance and oppressiveness for which it is often vilified, the leaders of the Adirondack Park Agency are using “the people’s lawyer” to try to bully a state judge into vacating his own legal order in a lawsuit in which a citizen defeated the APA in court.
Pivoting on actress Catherine Zeta-Jones’ disclosure that she’s being treated for bipolar disorder, the Plattsburgh Press-Republican calls for an end to stigmas surrounding mental health:
The sad fact is that mental illness is still not looked at the way other ailments are; the stigma that you don’t see associated with people who have cancer or heart conditions still remains for those who have an illness that affects the brain.
The paper did a terrific series on mentahl illness and its impact on children and families several years ago.
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Concerning Sandy and his law suit against the APA, I really don’t appreciate it when anyone sues the state, any of its agencies, or any of the various local governments because who of who pays. It’s the tax payer who pays, that’s who.
So I never wish anyone luck with their law suits.
Concerning mental health, the stigma might go away if people would just realize the brain is just another organ in the body and like any organ, it can malfunction.