Morning, everyone.\u00a0 Here’s our weekly look at the weekend’s opinion pages. We’ll start off with the looming public hearing for the Adirondack Club & Resort project in Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n
In a nuanced bit of thinking-out-loud, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> supports the project.<\/p>\n But the newspaper also asks everyone to take a deep breath and focus as calmly as possible on the decisions that need to be made, without all the heated rhetoric.<\/p>\n Both sides’ readiness to fight comes from passion for what they deeply believe in. We respect that and hope others do, too. Having everyone get through this decision without hating each other will help keep this fight from dragging on for generations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Watertown Daily Times<\/a>, meanwhile, lauds the Supreme Court for its free speech decision last week, allowing the toxic Westboro Baptist Church to continue its protests at the funerals of American service-members.<\/p>\n Chief Justice John G. Roberts wrote in his majority opinion on Westboro: “Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and \u2014 as it did here \u2014 inflict great pain.<\/p>\n “On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speakers. As a nation we have chosen a different course \u2014 to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n