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Fingerlakes1.com Menu Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com. New York State, the nation’s most gung-ho user of rock salt to de-ice winter highways, plans a formal review of its practices in response to new data that links road salting to troubling rises in sodium and chloride in Adirondack Park water wells. Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week signed into law a bill that calls for a “salt reduction task force” to an...

Photo by Eric Cravey Laura Frederick, manager of Frederick’s Repair Service in Fairmont, stands among some 20,000 small engine parts inside the business, whose revenue declines in recent years has led to a Dec. 31 shutdown. Photo by Eric Cravey Harlen Frederick founded Frederick’s Repair Service in 1946 and earned a reputation as an outgoing man who would repair customers’ small engines, but also teach them how to do some of the work too. Submitted Photo FAIRMONT — Childhood memories spent anticipating the springtime arrival of new products at her grandfather’s busine...

We're in the middle of a conversation. charles is back and john frederick, as well. sorry to cut you off. we had to get the break in. did you want to respond to what john was saying? >> i thought it was fascinating when john was talking about the difference between 1818 and 2018. there's a cultural blind spot in white america that does not want to acknowledge what happened around that time in 1818 and now we flung the doors wide-open to immigrants from europe for a very long time. in 1818 my ancestors were slaves and brought here because they were brought as slaves. and native americans were b...

This is who we were, this is what we wanted. and now all of a sudden this is no longer who we are. we want to build $25 million walls for nothing because we want to keep the brown people out. we want to make sure that people from haiti, the places you said may have plumbers -- >> we're almost out of time. >> -- can't come. we want to make sure that people from african countries cannot come to the u.s. you tell me that is not about race. you try to disconnect economics from the racial reality in this country. and that is a ridiculous position for you to hold and also not factual. >> you're talk...

We want to slam the door shut and say, no, no, that's not who we are. that's who we were when people who looked like me were coming. not when it's people who are brown or asian or whatever. and that is a very hypocritical, insulting reversal of the ethos of america. >> john? >> charles, it really has nothing to do with that. this isn't about race. this is about economics. this isn't about the color of somebody's skin or how they come into the united states. it's about jobs. what the president simply said is we have a $20 trillion debt and we're looking for people who come into the country that...