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All In: Celebrate women's sports Saturday with UAlbany basketball

All In: Celebrate women's sports Saturday with UAlbany basketball

Kayla Cooper is the star player for the UAlbany women's basketball team this season. The Danes' game at 2 p.m. Saturday against Binghamton...

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Joyce Bassett

Editorial: Better child care benefits every New Yorker

Editorial: Better child care benefits every New Yorker

Playground equipment is ready for children at Faith’s House, a daycare center serving workers at Saratoga Race Course that opened in 2021. Q:...

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Commentary: New York needs nonprofit "charter prisons"

Commentary: New York needs nonprofit

Credit: Getty Images. The killing last month of prisoner Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility demonstrates that the state Department of...

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Gordon Boyd

Downsizing do’s and don’ts

Downsizing do’s and don’ts

In January 2024, Joyce Bassett began her downsizing journey, moving from a four-bedroom, two-story split Colonial to a two-bedroom ranch twin home....

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Joyce Bassett

Commentary: Leaders can build on successes in substance use treatment

Commentary: Leaders can build on successes in substance use treatment

Credit: Getty Images. Though the most recent federal data shows that the overall fatal overdose rate is coming down, substance use disorder...

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Christine Khaikin

Commentary: State must help fund lead service line replacements

Commentary: State must help fund lead service line replacements

Credit: Getty Images. In October, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, which mandate the...

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Jenny Ingrao-Aman

Commentary: It's no surprise Latinos went big for Trump in November

Commentary: It's no surprise Latinos went big for Trump in November

Supporters of Donald Trump rally outside the CNN building in Hollywood on October 23, 2016. In the weeks after the presidential election, the...

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Dan Irizarry

Editorial: The fix in Schoharie County

The people of the state of New York have long entrusted the integrity of their elections to a two-party system of oversight. The Schoharie Country...

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Editorial: School meals should be free — and nutritious

Editorial: School meals should be free — and nutritious

Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that breakfast and lunch should be made available at no cost to all students in New York,...

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Commentary: NY HEAT Act is the push toward cleaner energy that New York needs

Credit: Getty Images. Every great structure begins with a blueprint — a carefully designed plan that transforms a vision into reality. It...

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Lisa Dix

Commentary: Mask bans are a threat to New Yorkers' health and freedom

Credit: Getty Images. Amid the current environment in which the politics of fear and division are ascendant, there is a misguided movement to pass...

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Donna Lieberman And Harvey Epstein

Grondahl: Small miracle unfolding at the Guild House

Grondahl: Small miracle unfolding at the Guild House

Dean Leander Harding, left, and volunteer All Saints Cathedral member John Zagame, stand in a crumbling meeting room of the Guild House, built in...

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Paul Grondahl

Editorials: In Los Angeles, the fires this time

Editorials: In Los Angeles, the fires this time

A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills on Jan. 8 as wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds...

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Churchill: Kathy Hochul comes to Albany's rescue

Churchill: Kathy Hochul comes to Albany's rescue

Aerial view of Albany’s so called “parking lot district,” between Hudson Avenue and Liberty Street is seen on May 9 in Albany. A professional...

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Chris Churchill

Commentary: To improve school outcomes, pay teachers what they’re worth

Commentary: To improve school outcomes, pay teachers what they’re worth

Credit: Getty Images. With a combined local state and federal expenditure of over $80 billion each year and the highest per-pupil investment in the...

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Steven Sanders

Hochul proposes massive state investment in downtown Albany, State Museum

Hochul proposes massive state investment in downtown Albany, State Museum

Interstate 787 runs tight along the Hudson River on Monday in Albany. Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to spend $35 million to study proposals to make over...

13.01.2025 10

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Chris Churchill

Editorial: Secrecy at NYRA

Credit: Getty Images. New year, new reason to repeat this mantra of government transparency: If you take taxpayers' money, you're accountable to...

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Letters: Albany Medical Center nurses' contract on readers' minds this week

Letters: Albany Medical Center nurses' contract on readers' minds this week

Letters to the editor can be submitted by sending an email to tuletters@timesunion.com or completing this form. See our guidelines on letters. We...

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Commentary: Prison system reforms must include a new approach to parole decisions.

Commentary: Prison system reforms must include a new approach to parole decisions.

Credit: Getty Images. As a former New York state parole commissioner, I am not surprised to learn about the horrifying murder of Robert Brooks,...

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Barbara Hanson Treen

Commentary: Prison reform starts with transparency and accountability — and that means more cameras

Commentary: Prison reform starts with transparency and accountability — and that means more cameras

Credit: Getty Images. The 27-year-old son of Robert Brooks, the incarcerated man murdered Dec. 10 by state employees at Marcy Correctional...

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Karen L. Murtagh

Editorial: We must address extremism

Editorial: We must address extremism

Flowers are left as a memorial Jan. 2, 2025, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, the day after an attack in the French Quarter. At least...

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Commentary: What Albany can learn from Brooklyn Bridge Park

Commentary: What Albany can learn from Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park. Every year, more than five million visitors enter Brooklyn Bridge Park, the 85-acre strip of land hugging Brooklyn’s East...

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Eric Landau

Commentary: The skies are abuzz with questions about drones

Commentary: The skies are abuzz with questions about drones

Credit: Getty Images. Beginning in mid-December, the nation has been both captivated and freaked out by the appearance of large drones flying over...

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John Ficarra

LeBrun: A toast to Mary Anne Krupsak

LeBrun: A toast to Mary Anne Krupsak

Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak stands behind Gov. Hugh Carey as he gives the State of the State Address in the Capitol's Assembly chamber...

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Fred Lebrun