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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 654 week(s) and 1 day(s) 328 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 78 Comments, 0 Diaries, 4 Series, 0 Polls
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Friday, March 17, 2023Don't call me, Rupert; I'll call you Rupert Murdoch displays a cynical disregard for the truth or the gullibility of his audience except when it suits his purpose. 
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Sunday, November 18, 2018America's in need of an intervention Trump, who doesn't drink, is a sucker for applause, adulation. It's his alcohol. He sank into a deep withdrawal when the pre-vote campaign rallies ended. A dry drunk if there ever was one. Series: Death of the GOP (39 Articles, 59212 views) 
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Monday, July 1, 2019Happy Birthday to us, America What Trump is doing is not normal, America, and it's important to say so. In fact, I am proud and grateful that I live in a country that still grants me that freedom. 
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Friday, October 18, 2019Life without bacon? Not impossible How do you convince people to occasionally eat more healthful food when they are hooked on beef, bacon and burgers? Meet the Impossible Burger. But be wary. Series: The food we eat, or don't (14 Articles, 27301 views) 
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015The GOP turns back the clock on women What was billed as a presidential debate last week turned out to be an all-out misogynistic effort to cast women as second-class citizens, or less. 
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Friday, June 11, 2021Wake up! It's time to put 'woke' to bed If liberals, Democrats, people who really believe in racial and social justice hope to gain support from conservative ranks, they would do better to simply state clearly what they are fighting for, without using any clever phrases (cancel culture is another). Say what you mean, don't meme what you say.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017Helloooooooooooo, Out There ! METI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is not to be confused with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), which deals with searching for messages from aliens. To/from. Therein lies the difference as well as a major scientific/philosophical dispute. I say send. 
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018Evangelicals/Trump: Marriage of convenience The key to my finally understanding the evangelical embrace of Trump, the most amoral, immoral, irreligious occupant of the White House perhaps ever, is realizing I had it backwards. It doesn't matter to Bakker. The worse Trump is the sooner the holy war can start. Series: Death of the GOP (39 Articles, 59212 views) 
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Friday, April 17, 2020Waiting for the Day of Reckoning Although I am firmly ensconced in the age group most susceptible to dying from COVID-19, I am not willing to simply give it up so that cult members can "get back to business". 
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022A moment of courage in Trump World They had told her to lie, that it would be OK, that she would be taken care of. Don't worry. She knew better. She knew she had to tell the truth. Somebody had to. 
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Sunday, December 26, 2021Here's looking at you, world I am one of the 2 million or so Americans who had cataract surgery this year. Virtually all the procedures were successful, as usual. 20/20. Remarkable. Series: My Renovation (9 Articles, 25290 views)
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Monday, September 12, 2016It's only fair to say: It has to be Hillary We need to focus on the issue at hand: Donald Trump is the most dangerously ill-prepared candidate to ever run for president representing a major party. Hillary Clinton is one of the most-qualified persons to ever run for president and she is a woman. I submit those as pertinent facts. Series: 2016 election (22 Articles, 32907 views) 
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Monday, July 10, 2023Republicans wage a war on the truth Republicans confuse "free speech" with the right to say anything they feel like, without regard to the truth and certainly without regard to the repercussions of the lack of truth in their statements. 
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Monday, March 30, 2020By the way ... is the planet rebooting? In non-Trump news, China moves in the South China Sea, Putin postpones and the planet reboots. 
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Friday, May 2, 2014Meet Donald Sterling, NBA plantation owner The NBA knew about Donald Sterling for years, but his racist, misogynistic behavior became unacceptable only when the rest of the world found out. 
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Tuesday, December 21, 2021The very rich get very special 'justice' Billionaire Michael Steinhardt was ordered to return $70 million worth of stolen antiquities and never do again. That's it. The rich enjoy a different kind of justice in Cy Vance's bailiwick. 
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Saturday, June 17, 2023Trump and Republicans: A tiring story Republicans, Trump is not one of you. He is Trump. Period. You created him. Your hypocrisy and cowardice have emboldened him and his ilk. He has sullied us all. And he has destroyed you.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013We don't eat horses, do we? The horse meat scandal in Europe could well travel to the United States, where Americans don't eat slaughter horses. Or do they? Series: The food we eat, or don't (14 Articles, 27301 views) 
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Saturday, July 18, 2020Americans are getting a history lesson Major change sometimes requires major pain. America may be experiencing that in coming to terms with its true history. The universe demands harmony. And, yes, Donald Trump is helping us find it. 
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016Dealing with the stigma of alcoholism C.C. Sabathia is the 'feel good" story for the New York Yankees this year, but no one will say why that is. The stigma attached to alcoholism is strong even in recovery. Page 5 of 17 First Last Back Next 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 View All |
