Fishkill, N.Y.: It was another bad week for conspiracy theorists, as the much-anticipated Durham report blew up in their faces. The report concluded that the FBI did not generate a politically motivated investigation to “get” Trump over his ties to Russia. In short, Trump’s whining about a “deep state” conspiracy to get him was diversionary nonsense. If only Trump’s conspiracy-loving gang could ever be humbled by facts, the Durham report should have added to their embarrassment.
Forked River, N.J.: When most of us with common sense heard about the plans the mayor of New York City came up with to deal with rats, New Yorkers all did a collective facepalm. While the mayor is solving NYC’s problems from his seat at the World Cup or in the sunshine of Greece, anyone who lives or works in New York already knows that garbage is the problem. Unless you deal with the garbage problem, there will always be rats and roaches no matter how many suitcases of cash you give the new “rat czar.”
Medford, L.I.: Kudos to Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin for backing up a New York State judge’s ruling that the city must rehire essential workers who were fired because they refused to take the COVID vaccine and cited that they should receive back pay for being summarily dismissed. Now that’s what I call righting a wrong!