By Brian McLane As most know, I spent much of my life in politics. It was, as I’ve said time and time again, a career I loved because it was so much like sports. There were two teams and two sides, and almost every time you introduced a piece of legislation, one side won while […]
By Brian McLane Jack Vandervort was a friend. Jack Vandervort was one of the most remarkable men I’ve ever known. Yet, I promise you, Jack Vandervort will never, ever get his due for just how much he did to change the texture and tenor of life in Central New York, as well as the direction […]
Anyone who knows me knows I bleed orange. Syracuse Orange, that is. As a kid, I attended Percy Hughes, a special school that, back in the day, butted up against the East side of the S.U. campus. At Westhill, I served as a statistician for the S.U. basketball team under Coach Fred Lewis. Then, as an […]
By Terry McLaneLike so many kids, who think they know their little corner of the world inside out, there was a time when I believed I knew my big brother better than anyone, probably better than he knew himself. But then came that summer we discovered whiffle ball. And Brian and I didn’t play whiffle […]