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Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida during a September 2023 hearing in Washington, D.C. Gaetz is president-elect Donald. J. Trump's selection to...
At the University at Albany Foundation's Citizen Laureate Awards dinner on October 30, 2019. Photo by Joe Putrock/Special to the Times Union. This...
Credit: Getty Images. A famous maxim holds that truth is the first casualty in any war. Less famous is the notion that government transparency can be...
Saratoga Springs City Hall. Election fatigue is likely widespread at the moment. Nevertheless, elections are good, right? We should all be able to...
Credit: Getty Images. New York’s educational leaders have laid out their vision for the next big thing: no more mandatory Regents exams. That...
Credit: Getty Images. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the state inspector general’s office are investigating fraudulent residency...
Guy Parsons via Cagle Cartoons, caglecartoons.com We’re often told that voting is our responsibility, our duty as citizens. We talk less often...
Credit: Getty Images. It’s getting to feel like everybody talks about the climate, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Back when a version of...
Credit: Getty Images. If you’re unusually nervous, jittery, tense, spooked, afraid, terrified or just simply exhausted at the thought of this...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a March 2020 news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany. (Will Waldron/Times Union) Just as a stopped clock is...
Environmental concerns so numerous regarding the Harbor Rock proposed construction aggregate kiln for Rensselaer that it should be nixed. It would be...
Interstate 787 as it passes through downtown Albany. Downtown Albany is not what it should or could be. On that, almost everyone agrees. Downtown is...
Working Families Party buttons at their state conference in April 2017 in Albany. (John Carl D'Annibale/Times Union) A few days into early voting and...
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump after speaking at a Turning Point Action campaign rally Thursday in Las Vegas,...
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an NCAA championship teams celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on July 22 in Washington,...
Credit: Getty Images. Here are the words New York Secretary of State Edward Flynn used to open the Constitutional Convention that was convened in...
New York's Hudson Valley is home to several congressional swing districts that could determine House control, and many voters are desperate to turn...
Exterior of the New York State Capitol on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Albany. Presidential election years bring the noise, color and fury, but whom...
Josh Riley speaks to supporters in Binghamton in 2022. The race for New York’s 19th Congressional District is one of the most watched in the...
Credit: Getty Images. The latest court battle over how elections are run in New York brings to mind an observation from Winston Churchill:...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeffrey Scherer. It's hard to say what's the most outrageous finding in the comptroller's audit of the state...
Bethlehem residents have a right to fully see the police and school district response to a threat of violence at the high school last month. Anyone...
An Amtrak passenger train heads south from Schodack in July 2024. Starting next month, Amtrak will cut three daily round trips between Rensselaer and...
Methadone daily doses and lockbox. Credit: Getty Images. Many people in recovery rely on access to methadone, the gold standard for treating opioid...
Credit: Getty Images. A Georgia-based company has gotten a state contract to take over a popular Medicaid home care program, consolidating the work...
Families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and supporters at a Sept. 21 rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, calling for a deal that would bring the prisoners...
Credit: Getty Images. Outside of dystopian fiction or an extraordinarily repressive regime, it’s almost impossible to imagine that a presidential...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Washington, D.C., is seen January 5, 2023. Moments after U.S. Immigration and Customs...
A bridge to Chimney Rock, North Carolina, is choked by debris Sept. 28 after Hurricane Helene brought heavy floods to the area. The death toll from...
If anybody questioned the need for the Albany Common Council's Ethics and Workplace Culture Committee, those doubts should have been erased by the...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the state Capitol in January, holding a news conference after Gov. Kathy Hochul's State of the State address. The...
One of three jets donated by the Air Force to the new airplane mechanic training program at Hudson Valley Community College. From the Department of...
Credit: Getty Images. The acquittal of three Rensselaer County officials accused of conspiring to commit ballot fraud is a stark reminder that being...
Credit: Getty Images. One would assume that legalizing marijuana for recreational use, and heavily regulating it, would come with strong consumer...
Owners of the Avila Retirement Community are appealing the building’s newest city property tax assessment. Some things are meant to last forever,...
A William S. Hackett Middle School student makes a dash across Delaware Avenue in Albany after dismissal on Nov. 19, 2020. We’re a few weeks into...
Credit: Getty Images. A Times Union report on the state of New York's nursing homes is a catalog of horrors. Lawsuits mention patients left in...
Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin says he wants the Albany International Airport CEO job. He shouldn't get it. Rensselaer County Executive...
Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance at a July rally in St Cloud, Minnesota. The latest election-season effort to muddy the...
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuiomo testifies before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Rayburn House Office Building at...
Gov. Kathy Hochul needs to keep the advocates — on both sides — at arm’s length and work with the Legislature to ensure any tweaks to the...
Kevin O’Connor, CEO of the Albany County Industrial Development Authority, left, sits with Albany County Executive Dan McCoy. With attention focused...
Students and faculty gather on the field at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Sunday, Sept. 8, to mourn and celebrate the lives of school...
Saratoga Springs City Hall. Saratoga Springs needs a new commissioner of public works after the mid-August departure of Jason Golub for a state job....
Residents inspect rubble of a building following an Israeli attack in Rafah, Gaza, on Dec. 22. The decades-old conflict between Israel and the...
Jason T. Schofield leaves the federal courthouse in Albany after being indicted on federal wire fraud charges in September 2022. He decided to take a...
Credit: Emilija Manevska/Getty Images. At long last, one of the planet's biggest customers of life-saving medications is able to do what the buyers of...
This editorial board is usually reluctant to comment on developing lawsuits. But we're making an exception for a new claim against the Clinton County...
Albany County Legislature Chair Joanne Cunningham at the Albany County Office Building in January. The bylaws of the Albany County Airport Authority...
Credit: Getty Images. It’s Labor Day. Do you know where your child is? That may seem an odd juxtaposition of sentences. It isn’t. Just ask the...