Pulse of The People: Gun control equals religious control

ShareOriginally published in the Troy Record on Sunday, January 20th 2013. New York state has passed the most restrictive gun laws in this nations history. People are excited about it and praise it as a great accomplishment. I’ve even people

Ban cell phones and gag everyone

ShareWe have seen so much tragedy as of late that I think it is finally time to make some smart sensible legislation regarding the 1st Amendment. This is a real concern as on one occasion alone someone yelling fire at

You Gun Supporters Will Cave In

ShareThe political powers that be market gun control as something so important for our society and act as if the majority of people commonly support it. If this was true why after all this talk about more unconstitutional restrictions gun

Checkpoints are unconstitutional

ShareOne of the most frustrating things I see all too often are suspicion-less check points. They come with a few different marketing angles such as “safety check point,” “DWI checkpoint,” and “Truck inspection.” These are blatantly unconstitutional and there is

Drug Prohibition creates violence

Share In the last few days we’ve all been hearing about the largest drug bust ever in Amsterdam. They arrested adults, took children, seized property, guns and drugs. Now I am not going to debate whether or not drugs are

Pulse of The People: It’s a bigger issue than same sex marriage

ShareAs seen in the Troy Record on Sunday October 21, 2012 Gay Marriage isn’t the issue at Liberty Ridge Farm. With the recent news that Liberty Ridge Farm passed on allowing a marriage to take place at their farm because

Weekend Warriors for North Greenbush Seniors

ShareWeekend Warriors for North Greenbush Seniors “We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.” With in our town of North Greenbush as of the 2000 census we had

Matthew Martoccio

ShareMatthew Martoccio – The Christmas Guy Matt Martoccio is founder and co-owner of a local Christmas light installation company, The Christmas Guys. He officially started the company in 2009 and brought a “family style” of decorating the the Christmas light