Opinion

BY JENNY KUMILI Special to the VOICE We’ve all dreamed of doing it and on that afternoon I was given the chance. The gate was open. I almost couldn’t believe it. Since getting my driver’s…

BY COLIN BREZICKI Special to the VOICE Teachers are a dedicated, well-meaning, but quirky bunch. Having enlisted in the ranks myself, I worked with them for 37 years and learned a little about what makes…

COMMENTARY BY JIM PITT Special to the VOICE There have been a large number of statistical analyses regarding the housing market, debt loads and interest rates of late. It’s enough to make my head spin….

Final season sees father and daughter cast together BY BLAINE PALMER and FRANCESCA TRICAMO-PALMER Special to the VOICE Blaine Palmer and Francesca Tricamo-Palmer, actors from Portland, Oregon, who are father and daughter, became part of…

BY RICHARD PALKOWSKI Special to the VOICE The “Man In Society” class at Pelham High School couldn’t have been taught by a better person than Mr. J. S. Curtis. As simply a history teacher, he…

  COMMENTARY BY JIM PITT Special to the VOICE The real estate picture in the Golden Horseshoe is still somewhat foggy. Although the real estate cartel would have you believe that the market is now “balanced,”…

BY SAMUEL PICCOLO The VOICE I first saw Mont Saint-Michel, the famous abbey in coastal France, built on a rocky outpost that becomes an island at high tide, in a film. Two characters speed along…

BY JANE BEDARD Special to the VOICE A guy walks into an Elite Car Dealership and the sales rep says… Nothing. He says nothing. Doesn’t even acknowledge the guy. Why. As the rep leaves to…

  BY JIM PITT Special to the VOICE There was a guy selling cut-price men’s suits who used to advertise on late-night television. He ended his spiel with the line, “An educated consumer is our best…