The tragic sit­u­a­tion in Haiti is gnaw­ing at me. Like so many oth­ers, my fam­ily is con­tribut­ing to the quake relief effort, and we’re opti­mistic that the world’s over­whelm­ing gen­eros­ity can help improve peo­ples’ lives there. Yet the tragic sit­u­a­tion in Haiti still gnaws at me. How can two coun­tries, Haiti and the Domini­can Repub­lic, share one […]

Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Sky
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“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scrip­ture, the time has come to set aside child­ish things… And to those nations like ours that enjoy rel­a­tive plenty, we say we can no longer afford indif­fer­ence to suf­fer­ing out­side our bor­ders; nor can we con­sume the world’s resources with­out regard to effect. For […]

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Sky
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In the 1970s, Cen­tral New York skiers had a gem of a ski resort just fif­teen miles from down­town Syra­cuse called Iron­wood Ridge. This facil­ity offered 500 ver­ti­cal feet, five down­hill trails rang­ing from inter­me­di­ate to sui­ci­dal, night ski­ing, cross coun­try, bunny slope, pro shop, a mod­est lodge and one 1800-foot T-bar. Alright savvy mathematicians, […]

Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Sky
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