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Let Albany know we’re out here
It’s been a long time since I’ve walked a protest/picket line. Young, restless, college kid, you know. And it didn’t even make a difference. My major was discontinued and the university moved on. Why would

Is it Spring yet?
Taking advantage of the nice late January-early February weather we’ve been having here in the Southern Tier, my wife and I went for a walk. The temperature was in the 50s and the warm weather

The Ethical Hunter
It is easy to find a newspaper story about hunters doing or acting poorly, doing things that reflect negatively on all of us, or endangering the lives of others. We owe it to the greater

State Rifle Association calls Chicago Mayor’s gun plan ‘divisive’
The Illinois State Rifle Association today called Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gun control plan “unnecessary, divisive, and unenforceable.” Reacting to Emanuel’s announcement on Thursday of a statewide gun licensing program, ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson

Late ice-fishing walleye jigging actions
Our sole job when fishing any species is to attract an individual and get it to bite. As the hard-water walleye season winds down, I’m using a lot of vertical jigging spoons and short-shanked jigs.

House Bill 2034 – Legislation that should go nowhere
By now, House Bill 2034, Rep. Mike Hanna’s Antlerless Deer Harvest Committee bill, and reactions to it, have been covered by several Pennsylvania Outdoor News stories, columns and blogs. I think it’s a bad bill

Gun owners all across state would have to register weapons under Chicago mayor’s proposal
Gun owners in Illinois have a new reason to believe Chicago rules the rest of the state. On Thursday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed statewide legislation that would require handgun owners statewide to register their

Seize the opportunity: Separate the basins
With an engineering background, I can well understand the axiom that goes “it seemed like a good idea at the time.” After all, the construction of the 363-mile-long Erie Canal was a marvel of 19th

Final deer season tally checks in at 219,698
Columbus – The DNR Division of Wildlife announced that 219,698 deer were taken during Ohio’s 2011-12 hunting season, compared to 239,379 in the 2010-11 season. The top three counties with the highest number of deer