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Knicks fever drowns out World Cup fervor

Knicks fever drowns out World Cup fervor

Long Island has a serious case of Knicks fever. Bakeries are churning out orange-and-blue cakes, cookies and doughnuts. Restaurants and delis are...

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Michael Dobie

For Blakeman, a rocky path to Albany success

For Blakeman, a rocky path to Albany success

A steep and tricky climb awaits Bruce Blakeman if he intends to reach the coveted realm of major league governance by succeeding Gov. Kathy Hochul....

04.06.2026 3

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Dan Janison

Leo's important guideposts for AI

Leo's important guideposts for AI

On some matters humans do not do well without guidelines or guideposts. Leaving us to our own devices is often unwise. That was made clear again this...

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Michael Dobie

This wild ride in sports is why we watch

If you are a sports fan, what a glorious spring it has been. It's a spring that reminds us how fierce competition can uplift and ennoble its...

24.05.2026 10

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Michael Dobie

In budget spin, timing isn't everything

On May 7, more than a month into the start of the state fiscal year, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an agreement on a new annual budget. Minutes later,...

20.05.2026 5

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Dan Janison

We underestimate El Niño's impacts to our peril

Trouble is brewing in the Pacific. El Niño is coming. And once again, the world does not seem ready for the challenges it brings. El Niño is a...

17.05.2026 20

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Michael Dobie

DiNapoli reaches a new crossroads

For those who are young and unfamiliar: Thomas DiNapoli, 72, of Great Neck Plaza, has been the New York State comptroller since 2007. He was first...

14.05.2026 10

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Dan Janison

Back to reality for this Cabinet member

The trailer released a few days ago looks like any new reality television show. A well-known TV personality and athlete takes his wife and nine...

13.05.2026 10

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Randi F. Marshall

Zelenskyy trolls, rains on Putin's parade

For years, Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine has used the Soviet victory over Germany in 1945, and its commemoration on May 9, as a symbol of...

12.05.2026 10

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Cathy Young

Hailing the wild child and free spirit of plants

Let's hear it for the weeds. I say that as a veteran of battle. I have spent more hours on my knees than I care to count, filled more yard bags...

10.05.2026 20

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Michael Dobie

The saga of the Elmont community center

It was December 2017 when former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo stood alongside Billy Joel and then-New York Islanders John Tavares and Cal Clutterbuck, and...

07.05.2026 10

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Randi F. Marshall

A call to action for free speech defenders

The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for an Instagram post apparently calling for President Donald Trump's ouster from office in a...

06.05.2026 10

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Cathy Young

Ape's act matters in extinction fight

Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between trees by humans to...

03.05.2026 20

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Michael Dobie

Promise and possibility as new Belmont takes shape

All eyes will turn to Churchill Downs Saturday, as horse racing enthusiasts gear up for the Kentucky Derby, the first event of the Triple Crown. But...

01.05.2026 20

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Randi F. Marshall

NYC rising in Hochul's trail of 3 cities

An analysis of Gov. Kathy Hochul's newly released tax and public calendar information published by Gothamist indicates she spent all or part of...

30.04.2026 20

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Dan Janison

In our ugly politics, rhetoric matters

The assassination attempt against President Donald Trump and administration officials at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner...

28.04.2026 10

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Cathy Young

Moonshot reinforces that we must protect our planet

There's nothing quite like being a quarter-million miles away to bring fresh perspective on the need to do more to safeguard our little planet....

26.04.2026 30

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Michael Dobie

Citizen Adams joins a Balkan nation

As recently as the early 1990s, the notion of a former New York City mayor becoming an honorary citizen of Albania would have been unimaginable. Back...

23.04.2026 10

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Dan Janison

Familiar face aboard this bid to make over Penn

As the busiest transit hub in the nation and a crucial economic centerpiece, Penn Station pulses with activity at all hours, as about 600,000 riders...

22.04.2026 10

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Randi F. Marshall

Yale exam reveals propensity for the left

The problems — and politics — of academia have long been a cultural lightning rod. The right tends to see universities as a bastion of progressive...

21.04.2026 20

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Cathy Young

A stranger's story is vital in chain of life

The train sped quietly through the Spanish countryside. It was early morning, and the farmland around us was just beginning to stir. The sun had...

19.04.2026 30

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Michael Dobie

Shunning House race was logical choice for D'Esposito

All the insider suspense has ended over whether Anthony D'Esposito would run for his former House of Representatives seat against incumbent Rep....

16.04.2026 20

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Dan Janison

Orbán's defeat symbolically fraught for Trump

An election that determines the leadership of a central European country with a population of less than 10 million might not seem like a major world...

14.04.2026 30

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Cathy Young

Be skeptical of RFK Jr.'s messaging shift

Early on, it was easy to paint the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement with a broad brush — as a group of moms universally opposed to...

10.04.2026 10

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Randi F. Marshall

Deporting his blameless bride won't thank him for his service

Cold edicts by top federal bureaucrats aimed at hustling anyone who can technically be branded "illegal" out of the United States have...

09.04.2026 20

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Dan Janison

Piker a bright, clear red line for Dems

How far can Democrats go in allying themselves with the far left? Is the tent big enough for Hasan Piker, a livestreamer many regard as anti-Jewish...

07.04.2026 10

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Cathy Young

Public fund denial an ironic Blakeman blow

Before this week, longtime Albany observers expected that the threat of the Public Campaign Finance Board holding back public funding for...

31.03.2026 10

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Dan Janison

He got involved, and it made a big difference

Death demands reflection and introspection. And so I found myself thinking quite a bit this past week about the passing of Richard Amper. Dick, who...

29.03.2026 20

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Michael Dobie

Empty assurances echo from 2020

Six years ago this month, the COVID-19 lockdowns began. Serious public health mandates were in place. Workers were sidelined, schools shut and the...

25.03.2026 20

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Dan Janison

A trip down the 'Russiagate' memory lane

The death last week of Robert Mueller, the special counsel who oversaw the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, revived acrimonious...

25.03.2026 20

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Cathy Young

Dreaming of new housing in LI's heartland

When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Donald Trump in Washington last month, the pair apparently spent much of their time...

25.03.2026 20

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Randi F. Marshall

We're not so divided on actual issues

As a nation, we’re a mess. Hopelessly divided, forever fighting, with political leaders who throw gasoline, not water, on the fire. That’s the...

22.03.2026 20

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Michael Dobie

Trump's 'SAVE Me' act rivets Senate

The title of President Donald Trump’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act could have been shortened to the "SAVE Me"...

20.03.2026 20

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Dan Janison

Gathering together as Jews is becoming harder

When the Temple Israel congregation gathered in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a day after a vehicle filled with explosives rammed into their...

19.03.2026 20

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Randi F. Marshall

March is the most confounding month

It's March, and spring is in the air. For a moment, anyway. As quickly as hints of change arrive, just as quickly come reminders that say: Not...

15.03.2026 20

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Michael Dobie

Prediction markets signal a flash point for the future

Energy Secretary Chris Wright wrongly and notoriously claimed on social media Tuesday that the U.S. Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker...

12.03.2026 30

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Dan Janison

Attacking Iran, while excusing Russia as it helps Iran

It is increasingly clear that the war the United States and Israel are fighting in Iran, however long it continues, will reverberate not only in the...

10.03.2026 20

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Cathy Young

Do you feel queasy about AI yet?

From the Department of You-Can't-Make-This-Up: After a heated back-and-forth between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Defense...

08.03.2026 70

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Michael Dobie

Messing with Texas maps faces the test

Off-cycle gerrymandering has stood out as the biggest and most controversial strategy so far for picking up House seats in this high-stakes midterm...

05.03.2026 30

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Dan Janison

Iranian dissident rejoices at Khamenei's fall

On Saturday, exiled Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad was being interviewed on CBS News about the Israeli and American strikes against Iran's...

03.03.2026 50

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Cathy Young

When a change in perspective does the trick

To get from the back door around the garage and out to the garbage cans, I dug a path barely the width of one shovel, a concession to age and the deep...

01.03.2026 40

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Michael Dobie

4 years in, Ukraine has won by surviving

Russia's war in Ukraine passed the four-year mark on Tuesday. It's difficult to remember now that in the early days of the invasion, many...

27.02.2026 40

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Cathy Young

Blakeman's burden is a heavy one

26.02.2026 50

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Dan Janison

Looking to up quality of what's often a slog

25.02.2026 50

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Randi F. Marshall

There's nothing like a cardinal in winter

22.02.2026 40

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Michael Dobie

One aide's exit spotlights the Noem mess

19.02.2026 40

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Dan Janison

Retirement seems a grim prospect for some

18.02.2026 40

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Randi F. Marshall

Olympics are a peculiar kind of mirror

15.02.2026 40

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Michael Dobie

Long efforts pay off on 9/11 health funding

13.02.2026 70

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Randi F. Marshall

Gender surgery verdict a wake-up call

10.02.2026 30

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Cathy Young