Letters for Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Take a stand against bigotry with actions Jewish life is meant to be lived with safety and with joy. In recent months, that basic promise has been...

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EDITORIAL: Kratom bill will save lives

“Please, sound the alarm.” A mother’s plea for government officials to act. A plea that came too late to save Cari Scribner’s 27-year-old son,...

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Gov. Kathy Hochul didn’t quite crash the party in Johnstown — she was invited — but she did spend the evening partying with Fulton County...

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EDITORIAL: Prison reforms just the beginning

Sometimes, the most difficult challenge to overcome in a race is making it to the starting line. When it comes to making our state prison system more...

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Letters for Monday, December 22, 2025

Still waiting for Hochul’s refund check We haven’t received a $400 check yet from our governor, so I went on the website to see where our check...

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EDITORIAL: Find compromise on police scanner access

Safety vs. transparency. Emergency responders want to block the public from hearing their movements over radio transmissions because they fear that a...

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Letters for Sunday, December 21, 2025

Speaker ignores facts, morality on boat strike House Speaker Mike Johnson said the second attack that killed two survivors clinging to an overturned...

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Letters for Saturday, December 20, 2025

Trump speech was just more of his lies I watched President Trump’s speech on television on Dec. 17. It was classic Trump. Blaming the Biden...

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EDITORIAL: Naughty & Nice list spotlights importance of government transparency

When a child makes Santa’s Naughty list this time of year, it means they’ve exhibited some unacceptable behavior that could result in them not...

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Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress, bowing out of...

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EDITORIAL: Spa City officials ‘strike’ again

Saratoga Springs residents must feel like they’re living in a Three Stooges movie. At any time, they might find city officials poking one of them in...

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Letters for Friday, December 19, 2025

Some people don’t deserve our sympathy What’s the big deal? Donald Trump stated basically he didn’t care that Rob Reiner died. Why does he have...

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The founder of the planned Upstate Ice Plex in Mayfield has sent out 9,000 requests — one to every business in a 30-miles radius, seeking $250,000...

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Letters for Thursday, December 18, 2025

America must speak out on Trump policies I appreciate Jahnn Swanker-Gibson’s Dec. 11 letter, (“America is headed down a bad path,”) in which the...

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HIGH NOTES: GoFundMe for crash victim, gifts for seniors, winterwear on a tree, long-term help for food pantry

In Johnstown, a GoFundMe page set up to help the children and family of a local woman killed in a car crash downstate on Thanksgiving night had raised...

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ALBANY (AP) — New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill under a deal reached between...

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Letters for Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Library needs to stop cutting services Once again, the Schenectady County Public Library (SCPL) wants to destroy a valuable library program. Last...

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With rural communities throughout New York facing a lack of health care workers, Assemblyman Robert Smullen has introduced what he called “common...

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Letters for Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Time to ramp up our use of solar power Here is a fact that we should all celebrate: The cost of producing energy from the sun is now lower than the...

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Johnstown High School seniors Gabby Chase, left, and Soria Hock participated with some of their classmates in Wreaths Across America Day at Woestina...

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Letters for Monday, December 15, 2025

Trump doesn’t care about Americans In Francesca Simon’s Nov. 28 letter, (“Call out Democrats’ deceptive rhetoric,”) about Trump...

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EDITORIAL: Don’t let fear of change guide school decision

Closing school buildings, moving kids around and overall upsetting the traditional order can be very upsetting to those affected —particularly to...

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Try getting a lift to the grocery stores in Gloversville. Or maybe downtown, or to a plaza in Johnstown. One cab company in Gloversville ceased...

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EDITORIAL: St. Clare’s pension fight never should have been needed

The official verdict came down on Friday. And the money should soon follow. Relief. Vindication. A happy conclusion. On Friday evening, jurors in...

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Letters for Sunday, December 14, 2025

Quick action needed to stop Trump abuses In elementary school social studies, we learned that the United States is a republic with three co-equal...

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EDITORIAL: Compromise on RAISE Act must put public’s interests first

Public officials are faced with a lot of pressure from a lot of different and powerful sources. That pressure becomes particularly strong when the...

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Letters for Saturday, December 13, 2025

For a reality check, take Trump shopping Since Donald Trump believes that “affordability” is not an issue, I invite him to go shopping and see...

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Somewhere between snorting my own sweat and trying to extricate myself from the wolf’s head without removing my nose, I began to seriously consider...

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Letters for Friday, December 12, 2025

Trump backer made questionable claims Bill Marincic’s Dec. 7 letter, (“Left wing’s criticisms of Trump fall short,”) praising Trump as...

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A Johnstown High School teacher and coach has been arrested, accused of having inappropriate communications with a student. The messages were “at...

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Letters for Thursday, December 11, 2025

People must listen to opposing views From the letters to the editor, it’s obvious that, even in your coverage area, there is a profound difference...

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HIGH NOTES: Holiday concert for Special Olympics, trees for troops, vision screening for kids

In Albany, local law firm Harding Mazzotti LLP is helping support Special Olympics through its sponsorship of the Dec. 17 performance of...

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Gloversville voters approved a $40 million capital improvement project Tuesday. The vote was 211 to 73, a 74.3% approval, district officials said....

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EDITORIAL: Hochul must rededicate herself to transparency

If Gov. Kathy Hochul is going to win re-election, it won’t be because of her most recent positions on legislation designed to make government more...

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Letters for Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Right has its own share of violence The right wasted no time attributing the killing of Charlie Kirk to leftist violence. Conveniently, conservatives...

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Letters for Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Oppose candidates who enable Trump Next year we will decide on a new representative to Congress. Several candidates have expressed interest in the...

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EDITORIAL: Primaries are good for voters

For politicians and their political parties, the last thing they want is any public perception of disagreement or dissension. That’s why they...

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The "end" of education lies in the Seven Liberal Arts

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EDITORIAL: Vaccine bill would protect New Yorkers’ health

If you had a way to spare infants from having a 90% chance of developing a dangerous form of hepatitis, you’d do it. If you could spare a quarter of...

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Letters for Monday, December 8, 2025

We can’t let freedom and democracy die Nicholas Riccard of the Associated Press reports that half of American adults believe that our democracy is...

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Letters for Sunday, December 7, 2025

How can Trump backers defend his actions? Francesca Simon warned in her Nov. 28 letter, (“Call out Democrats’ deceptive rhetoric,”) that...

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Bright display Vehicles big and small were welcome to participate in the tractor and truck parade at the Farm To Table Festival at Fonda Fairgrounds...

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EDITORIAL: Spa City invites public to participate in budget process

Saratoga Springs has a unique way of doing things when it comes to government. Its commission form of government, in which elected officials represent...

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EDITORIAL: Pause in sticker program gives city a chance to re-evaluate trash collection

Whatever Schenectady officials decide to do in the next few days with the city’s controversial trash sticker program — suspend it, end it, modify...

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Letters for Saturday, December 6, 2025

County should include Amish in tourism I’ve always been perplexed that Montgomery County has not included the Amish in its tourism efforts. I do...

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Two people escaped a fire at a home in Gloversville early Thursday morning. Gloversville Fire Chief Tom Groff said in a release that the home...

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The weird thing about New York, which I haven’t gotten used to in the 40-odd years I’ve lived in this state, is that you get to vote on school...

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Letters for Friday, December 5, 2025

Caesar at the Rubicon Julius Caesar and his formidable Roman army crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B.C. It was a momentous thing to do. Even today,...

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EDITORIAL: Consolidate school capital project votes

The only thing people should be voting on in December is which house in the neighborhood has the best Christmas display. Yet only a few weeks after...

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Letters for Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Stop putting sports above academics There’s a cancer on the American public educational system, and that cancer is sports; in particular,...

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