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Churchill: Albany's new cameras are taxing commuters (and they deserve it)

ALBANY — Now and again, somebody in Albany will float instituting a commuter tax, which is a terrible idea. The city needs more commuters and...

15.12.2024 2

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Churchill: Ms. Hochul goes to grocery store

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks to the media Tuesday after shopping with Sally McKenna to highlight her State of State Affordability Agenda at the Market 32...

13.12.2024 20

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Churchill: Familiar new police chief confronts a more violent Albany

Police Chief Brendan Cox speaks after being sworn in Dec. 2 by Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. Cox previously served as police chief from July 2015 to...

11.12.2024 6

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Churchill: Who will be Albany's next mayor?

Albany Chief City Auditor Dorcey Applyrs is the early front-runner in the race to replace Kathy Sheehan as mayor of Albany. Albany Chief City Auditor...

09.12.2024 20

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Churchill: For Amanda King's father, discovery was the ending he feared

Arthur King sits with a photo of his oldest daughter, Amanda King, who went missing in October 2013. Amanda King was reported missing in Glenville in...

05.12.2024 8

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Churchill: The David Soares era is coming to an end

Since his first election 20 years ago, Albany County District Attorney David Soares has been outspoken about criminal justice matters. Defeated in...

30.11.2024 7

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Churchill: To confront neighborhood's darkness, she built a Beacon

The Beacon sits at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 116th Street in Lansingburgh, near where Vanessa and Alina Milligan were killed in 2014. Deyva...

29.11.2024 6

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Churchill: The governor gave Mike Lawler an early Christmas present

Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, who won his reelection bid in November to represent New York’s downstate 17th Congressional District, is now...

26.11.2024 6

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Churchill: Albany is throwing a crummy birthday party

Students from Christian Brothers Academy march through Washington Park during the Albany tricentennial parade in 1924. It's a downer when everybody...

23.11.2024 10

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Churchill: Requiem for another piece of lost Albany

Fire damage was visible Wednesday morning from the rear of the Elijah Missionary Baptist Church at 74 Second Ave. in Albany.  Standing on Second...

21.11.2024 10

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Churchill: When a neighborhood disappeared, Albany paid the price

Empire State Plaza bustled (not really) on a recent weekday morning.  If you want to understand New York's capital city and its continuing struggles,...

16.11.2024 4

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Churchill: By sticking with Trump, Elise Stefanik wins in the end

North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik, shown during a January appearance on the "Meet the Press," has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be...

13.11.2024 4

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Churchill: It's reckoning time for Hochul and New York Democrats

Kathy Hochul and Donald Trump shake hands at the annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner at the New York on October 17. Let's break away from the...

09.11.2024 20

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Churchill: The reason Trump won isn't as complicated as it may seem

Former U.S. President Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum on Oct. 22 in Greensboro, N.C.  Why...

07.11.2024 20

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Churchill: Killing of Peanut shows state's warped priorities

A view of the Dunn Landfill in Rensselaer. The dump has been blamed for putrid odors blowing into a neighboring school, but the state Department of...

06.11.2024 10

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Why did the DEC take Peanut the Squirrel? Where is he now?

Officials from the state Department of Environmental Conservation confiscated Peanut the Squirrel during a raid Wednesday.  Mark Longo first spotted...

01.11.2024 4

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Churchill: In Bethlehem, yet another vote follows the big one

As Election Day looms, Bethlehem would seem to have a higher density of political yard signs than any community in the region. Judging by appearances,...

26.10.2024 4

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Churchill: Is the League of Women Voters biased? That's up for debate

Former Congressman Lee Zeldin urges voters not to pass Proposition 1 during a news conference at Capitol in Albany. Gov. Kathy Hochul has been one of...

23.10.2024 4

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Churchill: Years after teen was hit, Troy street is still a 'raceway'

"They really lay on the gas coming through here," said a resident who lives along Eighth Street in Troy. Charlena Keels stands outside her home on...

20.10.2024 10

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Churchill: Can the 'lamb' avoid Albany County's slaughterhouse?

Ralph Ambrosio, the Republican running for Albany County district attorney, speaks during a debate against his Democratic opponent, Lee Kindlon, at...

16.10.2024 5

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John Sawchuk was a hero, and not just for stopping a school shooting

John Sawchuk, then an assistant principal Columbia High School, speaks during a freshman orientation in 2004. Principal of Columbia High School, John...

05.10.2024 7

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Churchill: Hey look! A grocery that's (almost) in downtown Troy

Customers shop recently at the Bargain Grocery on River Street in Troy.  Twice in recent weeks, I’ve gone grocery shopping in central Troy. That...

01.10.2024 3

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Remembering the killing that ended Colonie's 'age of innocence'

Sheila Allen, who was abducted from Central Avenue and Rapple Drive in the village of Colonie in 1970.  Charles Oechler is led down hallway by...

28.09.2024 10

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Churchill: Canceled panel brings pointed fingers, allegations of antisemitism

Elisa Albert had been set to moderate a panel called "Girls, Coming of Age" at the Albany Book Festival on Saturday. What happened following the...

26.09.2024 4

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Churchill: Where, oh where, is the David Soares campaign?

Albany County District Attorney David Soares announced his write-in campaign on July 17. Chris Churchill says there has been little evidence there is...

19.09.2024 4

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Churchill: Closure of Hoffman's Playland left a hole that hasn't been filled

Children and their families scream as they round a curve on the roller coaster at the old Hoffman's Playland, which closed in 2014. The property where...

15.09.2024 8

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Churchill: Albany's squalid bus station could be yesterday's news

Greyhound Bus terminal in the Liberty Park area in Albany. Albany Parking Authority has a study on what a new $81.6 million downtown bus station might...

13.09.2024 4

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Churchill: Hochul was badly burned by Linda Sun

Former New York Governor Kathy Hochul aide Linda Sun and her husband, Christopher Hu, not in photo, leave Brooklyn Federal Court after their...

11.09.2024 30

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Churchill: Calderone's 'sins' are nothing without Dan McCoy

Albany County Airport Authority Board Chairman Samuel Fresina is coaxed inside after the board announced the firing of airport CEO Phil Calderone. As...

08.09.2024 10

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Churchill: A sliver of hope for Albany's historic Tudors

One of the six vacant Tudor-style homes along Holland Avenue in Albany.  In recent years, the historic but vacant historic houses along Holland...

06.09.2024 9

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Churchill: Get Albany airport out from under county's grubby thumb

Albany International Airport CEO Philip Calderone talks to the mother of Canadian pilot Natalie Gillis, who died in a June plane crash. The effort to...

01.09.2024 30

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Churchill: Trump endorsement has RFK Jr. fans 'swirling'

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stands with supporter Celeste Shear in an Albany courtroom following a hearing on a lawsuit attempting to remove him from the...

29.08.2024 10

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Churchill: After Soares implosion, McCoy says hold my beer

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy announces the completion of an Albany County Department of Public Works garage on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. Like his...

27.08.2024 10

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Churchill: If Dan McCoy didn't know, the airport's board has gone rogue

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy speaks at a news conference last week. He claims he was unaware the board of the Albany County Airport Authority was...

21.08.2024 10

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Churchill: Dan McCoy orchestrates a coup at the Albany airport

Albany International Airport CEO Phil Calderone speaks at an August event where U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer announced nearly $29...

15.08.2024 30

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Churchill: Professor sees antisemitism in dispute over Holocaust class

Russell Sage College President Mathew Shaftel said the college remains committed to teaching the history of the Holocaust, along with the history...

14.08.2024 7

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Churchill: RFK Jr. ballot lawsuit is really about disenfranchising voters

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. poses with supporters in an Albany courtroom. Independent presidential candidate Robert F....

11.08.2024 5

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Churchill: Dumb new border crossing rules are not for the dogs

It is now much more difficult to bring a dog over the border with Canada, even if the animal recently traveled with its family from the United...

07.08.2024 9

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Churchill: Ugly antisemitism confronts the perfect Harris pick

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro listens during a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris held in Ambler, Pennsylvania. In nearly every...

04.08.2024 8

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Churchill: Restricting dogs in cars feels like an attack on America

A dog enjoys the scenery while riding in a car through Latham. When we were last forced to notice that the Albany County Legislature exists, the...

01.08.2024 10

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Churchill: Cat ladies may get their revenge on Trump and Vance

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) greets supporters at the Park Diner on July 28 in St Cloud, Minn.  I’m sympathetic to...

30.07.2024 6

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The man who sold the Times Union

Martin H. Glynn in a 1909 portrait by Samantha L. Huntley. Still a young man, he was already the owner and publisher of the Times Union and a few...

28.07.2024 5

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Churchill: As the pastors patrol, they listen, see and care

The Rev. Avery Comithier, founder of Pastors on Patrol, points up Albany's Madison Avenue.  Rev. Avery Comithier of Albany's Elijah Missionary...

27.07.2024 8

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Churchill: If a commission is a board that was a commission, it must be Troy

Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello speaks recently at Canal Park in Troy. Mantello wants Planning Commissioner members of her own choosing; other mayors...

26.07.2024 6

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Churchill: Biden is out, but don't forget the deception

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer walks last year with U.S. President Joe Biden as he arrives in the U.S. Capitol. Joe Biden is no longer running...

24.07.2024 5

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Churchill: The mind of Bob Newhart was a much-needed salve

Comedian Bob Newhart died Thursday at the age of 94.  When I was in fifth grade, economic circumstances — poverty, to put it plainly — forced my...

21.07.2024 4

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Churchill: Eric Hawkins makes his case for staying

Police Chief Eric Hawkins speaks on June 24 in Albany. Hawkins says he believes he is making progress in the fight against gun violence. Albany Police...

18.07.2024 2

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Churchill: A shocking event that was totally predictable

The American flag blows in the wind at Butler Fairgrounds after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.  I was...

16.07.2024 4

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Churchill: David Soares should go for it

Albany County District Attorney David Soares addresses supporters and the media at the Copper Crow in Albany after losing last month's Democratic...

13.07.2024 3

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Churchill: Police chief is throwing spaghetti but nothing sticks

Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins talks to the media about a murder on Delaware Avenue on Tuesday. Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins talks to the media...

11.07.2024 9

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