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Bob Gaydos is a veteran of 40-plus years in daily newspapers. He began as police reporter with The (Binghamton, N.Y.) Sun-Bulletin, eventually covering government and politics as well as serving as city editor, features editor, sports editor and executive editor. He was also managing editor of the Evening Capital in Annapolis, Md. He retired from daily newspapering in 2007 after 29 years with the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., where he was Sunday/features editor and, for 23 years, editorial page editor. He won numerous awards for his editorials from the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and The Associated Press and in 1992 was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Gaydos continues to write on a freelance basis, including a column on addiction. OpEd News Member for 658 week(s) and 3 day(s) 335 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 78 Comments, 0 Diaries, 4 Series, 0 Polls
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Friday, November 17, 2017Trump shakes, rattles and rolls The point is -- and his loyal supporters who see the emperor well-clothed ought to really care about this -- if he can't manage his own personal health with all the imaginable resources in the world at his call, how can he be relied on to manage America? Series: Death of the GOP (39 Articles, 59591 views) 
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Sunday, May 17, 2020Country life (and more) with COVID-19 It's one short road, but what a menagerie. Also, foolish Mitch McConnell utterances and the virus ends a third-party presidential candidacy. Call it a mercy killing. 
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Sunday, September 17, 2023On growing old with Mitt Romney Romney did say, "While I'm not running for reelection, I'm not retiring from the fight. I'll be your United States senator until January of 2025." But he didn't elaborate. Too bad, because there are things a retiring, respected senator can do to improve things in Washington, but framing it as a generational thing is misleading and disingenuous. 
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Thursday, September 8, 2022Aaron Judge needs 61 Homers in 154 Games, or less This may sound naive to some, but I don't see how someone who cheats, however talented he or she may be, should be credited with any kind of athletic performance record. Otherwise, what's the point of keeping records? 
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Friday, May 19, 2023Was it an 'invitation' I couldn't refuse? Routinely scrolling through my daily emails, I was surprised to find a message that was the highlight of the week: An invitation to dinner with a former president of the United States of America. Wow, I thought, that doesn't happen a lot. In fact, it's never happened to me. 
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Sunday, March 30, 2014The pride of Copenhagen -- not its zoo The Copenhagen Zoo followed up its execution of a young, healthy giraffe by killing a family of lions -- father, mother and two young cubs. This is not euthanasia; this is human arrogance. 
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Thursday, May 6, 2021America finally has a president again Joe Biden wants to heal America and he asked the "loyal" opposition to help. They sat on their hands. They have nothing, but we, at last, have a president again.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012Whitney, Josh and their disease It's as if Whitney Houston, the superstar, in death, was now finally beyond rebuke and officially a victim of addiction. For Josh Hamilton, a baseball star who managed to live, it was another story. 
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Saturday, August 17, 2013We've Become a Nation of Us Versus Them I wept at the end of the movie, "Fruitvale Station," for Oscar Grant and for all of us. We must end the militarization of our police. 
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017Did time finally catch up with Cosby? The statute of limitations allows the powerful -- a famous TV star or the Catholic Church -- to pay off victims of sexual assault, convince them that no one will believe them, scare them with the threat of public exposure and embarrassment and delay any criminal action against them until it's too late. 
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Saturday, November 10, 2018The buck never stops at Trump's desk A lousy appointment for attorney general? Republicans losing congressional races? "Hey, never met the guy. And they never asked for my help." Not his fault. Never is. Series: Death of the GOP (39 Articles, 59591 views) 
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Saturday, November 4, 2023As Maine goes... well never mind The week featured a new House Speaker who questions the constitutional separation of church and state and a mass shooting in a state where mass shootings don't happen. 
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018Connect the dots: Women's time is now This is not simply a revolution about sexual predation. As I see it, it is an awakening, a moment of clarity, a realization that what was does not have to continue to be. In fact, cannot be. 
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Wednesday, April 3, 2024Pentagon shrugs off all UFO reports The Defense Department investigating the Defense Department on a matter of wide public interest and controversy is probably not the best way to resolve long-standing questions. 
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Saturday, September 30, 2023Joe: Join the pickets, but train your dog President Biden was right and bold to join auto workers on the picket line. He was wrong and negligent in not properly training his German Shepherd Dog. 
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Thursday, April 9, 2020Politics in the age of pestilence The need now is for Democrats to present, not just a familiar, comfortable name for president, but a super team, if you will, of potential cabinet members and presidential advisors who will reinforce the need to return competency, decency and dignity in the Oval Office. First, get the job, then start fixing things. 
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Friday, October 4, 2013What's it all about, Faust? Today's language is lacking in words to adequately describe the kind of lout Faust was. Where are "rake" and "cad" when we need them? When words lose precision, they lose meaning. Bring back 'libertine." 
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020Predictably pre-conditioned police In the film, "Minority Report," pre-cogs predict future crimes for police. In real life, pre-conditioning does much the same for crimes by police. Time may have finally caught up to the latter. Thirty-four years too late for Jimmy Lee Bruce. 
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Monday, June 5, 2023My dinner with Donald, part two Ultimately, I decided there could be no dinner talk with Donald Trump because from what I've seen, he doesn't have conversations. He talks at you. He makes pronouncements.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016In America, the rich are never wrong Bankers don't go to jail in this country. Drug company executives don't go to jail in this country. Insurance executives don't go to jail in this country. Wall Street brokers don't go to jail in this country. In this country, a billionaire who doesn't pay his employees, stiffs his creditors, brags about not paying taxes gets to run for president. The rich are never wrong. Series: 2016 election (22 Articles, 33118 views) Page 6 of 17 First Last Back Next 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 View All |
