November 23, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The perch that I sit on — and most of my readers, too — is in the lower part of New York State, in the geographically smallest county — Rockland —… Continue reading

November 16, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III It had to be pre-World War I when the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, N.Y., still had no hot water, relying instead on a rubber tube connected from a gas jet in… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Increasingly, special interests can buy an election, influencing sitting officeholders and deeply directing U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Investigative media that once would have looked at such a growing web of influence has shrunk in… Continue reading

  November 2, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, not a birthday “present” this year, but it has been often enough. In earlier times at a newspaper, I worked most birthday/election events. No… Continue reading

October 26, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The brotherhood is losing its working members, and that will make orphans of all who depend on information delivery as a public trust. Newspapers are dying, shot by a lessened public… Continue reading

  Oct. 19, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Lost a good friend a few days ago who was also my first boss on a full-time job at the original Journal-News, a daily in Rockland County, N.Y. As with… Continue reading

  By Arthur H Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The date on this piece tells it all — it is Columbus Day, a national holiday in the good, old US of A, but not for everyone. As I write this shortly after… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com There’s a smallish village near me, and, of course, there is one by you, anywhere, that has its charm. You may have to look beyond the new, in this case the paint, restored Victorian… Continue reading

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com “Less is More” is often a clever marketing move to make you believe the downsized product you pay dearly for actually delivers as promised. The real truth may be that the deal is a… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Envelopes — legal sized or not — may be an anachronism in the digital world, in this morphing time of Tweets, Facebook posts and cell phone text shorthand, but using them can prompt memories… Continue reading