Adventures in Obamacare IIby Seth Rogovoy By now you’ve undoubtedly heard all the horror stories about how the online exchanges aren’t working or worse. This hasn’t been my experience, but then again, mine is only one individual case among millions. I successfully signed up for health insurance on the New York State online exchange,…
by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., October 26, 2013) – Victor Mendolia has a vision for this riverside city of a little over 6,000, and a plan to achieve it. It includes inviting smart, targeted development in areas of the city that have been overlooked or underutilized, leading to an enhanced taxpayer base, more market-rate…
by Seth Rogovoy Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs – who is currently being portrayed by Ashton Kutcher in the biopic “Jobs” — was the biological child of a Syrian-born father and a Swiss-American Catholic mother who gave him up for adoption at birth. He was raised in northern California by a working-class couple — Paul Reinhold…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – William Hallenbeck, the incumbent mayor of this small city of about 6,000, has refused an invitation to publicly debate his lone challenger, Victor Mendolia, saying he’s too busy running things to prepare for such a debate. According to a report in the local newspaper of record, the Register-Star, Hallenbeck, a Republican, has…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – While the official announcement says that the Wild Rovers Tour, featuring Cory Chisel, the Candles, Invisibleman, Adriel Denae, and special guests are coming to Club Helsinki Hudson this coming Sunday, October 20, 2013, at 8pm, it seems a pretty sure bet that one of those special guests is going to be Norah…
I’ve been laid low today by a vicious, violent headache. I don’t often get headaches, and I never think of myself as one who suffers from them. I live with someone prone to migraines, and I don’t think mine counts as a full-fledged migraine, because even through the pain – my eyes hurt when they…
Adventures in ObamacareThe Congressional GOP wants to defund the Affordable Care Act – so-called Obamacare — before it even goes online and provides a way for over 40 million Americans to purchase affordable, individual health insurance policies. I am one of the 40 million. I have lived without health insurance for nearly a year and…
Lawrence “Larry” Neil Rogovoy, 82, of Seattle, Wash., died of respiratory failure on September 7, 2013. He leaves two children, Seth Rogovoy, of Hudson, N.Y., and Ruth Berkman, of Seattle; a sister, Eleanor Watson, of Portland, Oregon [since deceased], and four grandchildren: Anna Rogovoy, of Brooklyn, N.Y., Willie Watkins, of Great Barrington, Mass., and Emma…
The first definition of the word “vigil” is “A watch kept during normal sleeping hours” (according to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, my reference of choice in such matters). The second definition is “The act or a period of observing; surveillance.” I have, in fact, been engaged in a vigil in both…
And when history is written, the ignominious end to the human race will be traced back to one man’s taste for barbecued marmot. And some alien wag will undoubtedly note, “Marmot. The other white meat.” And the other will say, “Marmot. Tastes like chicken.”
