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Think globally, act immediately

The effort to save the planet from ourselves will take all of us. We are lucky to live in a state with such a vast wilderness area and luckier still to live in the Capital Region, making it easy for us to both enjoy the Adirondacks and to contribute to the park’s prosperity and preservation.

We need a fair tax system to serve the common good

We were stirred by the words of these small-town Americans who saw a need — an imperative for the health and safety of their residents and for the prosperity or even survival of their town — and acted on it. They provide a model for other towns to follow: Draw on the talents of citizens to define a problem and then map out a means to solve it.

Plant a good pasture. It’s where you’ll be spending the future.

We urge the towns we cover to look at the checklists the World Health Organization has provided to see where they are succeeding and, more importantly, how they can improve.

When you label someone, that’s all you’ll ever know about them

We urge each of our readers to think of yourself as holding onto a ribbon — a ribbon that joins you to your neighbor. You, of course, are unique and so is each person in the long line of people holding a ribbon, one to another. We have to see each person as an individual yet understand, too, we are connected in our humanity.