Tag: contradictions

Welcome to Rochester, a place of strange names and confounding contradictions

Let’s say you’re putting together a guide titled “How to be a Rochesterian.” Your target audience is people who has moved here recently, drawn by relatively affordable house prices, Abbott’s Ice Cream, garbage plates and friendly people. Right away, you’ve got to train the newcomers on how to pronounce area town names. For that bit […]

On climate, DeSantis is full of contradictions

At a campaign stop in September 2018, soon-to-be Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out his plans to restore the Everglades, adapt to rising sea levels and combat toxic algae blooms. But he stopped short of mentioning climate change. “I’m not in the pews of the church of the global warming leftists,” DeSantis told a crowd of […]