IN THE NEWS---BIDEN CANCELS AN ADDITION $9 BILLION IN STUDENT LOAN DEBT

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VILLAGE SCHEDULE, COLUMBUS DAY

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Columbus Day Holiday Schedule===POSTED ON: OCTOBER 4, 2023 - 10:20AM---All Village offices will be closed on Monday, October 9th, in observance of the Columbus Day holiday.  MORE AT Columbus Day Holiday Schedule | Croton-on-Hudson NY (crotononhudson-ny.gov)

BIRDERS FLOCK TO SIBLEY LECTURE, ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN TARRYTOWN

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Birders Flock to Sibley Lecture, Annual Conference in Tarrytown
October 4, 2023--Examiner Media By Brian Kluepfel

It took more than the pending arrival of Hurricane Ophelia to keep New York’s birding community away from the 2023 New York State Birder’s Conference in Tarrytown.

Featuring dozens of vendors, several area bird walks and lectures on topics, ranging from using e-Bird by Julie Hart and Jared Feura of the New York Breeding Bird Atlas to preventing avian collisions with glass windows by Anikó Tótha of American Bird Conservancy, the annual event was topped off by the keynote speech of David Allen Sibley, the dean of the modern birding field guide.

Saw Mill River Audubon (SMRA), spearheaded by Executive Director Anne Swaim and assisted by former SMRA board member Debbie van Zyl, organized the multiday birder’s extravaganza, which had a bit to offer for birders of all interest levels and ages.

No further proof of this was needed as Friday kicked off with the Young Birders’ Club of New York hosting a dinner and informal quiz, whose answers stumped even hardcore birders.

Saturday morning’s bird hikes were a measure of success as the rain held off until a bit later. The large group walk at Croton Point Park,.......read more a tBirders Flock to Sibley Lecture, Annual Conference in Tarrytown | The Examiner News

EMILY BURNS--THE COSTS AND CASUALTIES OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION TOTAL WAR

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,”

This phrase, misattributed to Voltaire, has largely come to dominate—and confuse—our understanding of the importance of free speech in a free society. That misunderstanding seems to be at the heart of the very lukewarm response elicited by the exposure of “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history” unearthed through discovery in Missouri v. Biden now before the Supreme Court.

The trouble with this framing of free speech is that it focuses on hateful speech, framing the imperative to defend the utterance of hateful speech as a form of polite, reciprocal tolerance, necessary for the smooth functioning of a liberal society. If ever there were a framing that caused one to miss the forest for the trees, this is it.

The primacy free speech enjoys here in the US has nothing whatever to do with some dewy-eyed ideal of tolerance. Rather, it owes its primacy to pragmatism. Freedom of speech is the best tool we have to ascertain the truth of any given matter. Like a sculptor transforming a shapeless piece of marble into a work of art, free and open debate chisels away at the falsehoods and misapprehensions in which the truth lays embedded. Restrict debate, and the gradual emergence of that truth will be delayed or deformed, with the result imperfect at times to the point of monstrosity.

The reason we must “defend to the death” the right to utter “intolerable speech,” is that failure to do so results in the swift and certain condemnation as “intolerable” all speech that diminishes the power or legitimacy of those in power. More succinctly, we must defend the pariah’s right to speak or everyone who crosses the regime, conveniently becomes a pariah. MORE AT The Costs and Casualties of Government's Information Total War ⋆ Brownstone Institute

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CONGRATS TO BETHANY CORBETT

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VIDEO--FANS GO WILD FOR CROTON BOYS SOCCER WIN

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