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The College of Saint Rose campus and surrounding buildings, looking east down Western Ave. in Albany, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The future of the...
The bobsled and luge run at Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid in February 2005, the 25th anniversary of the 1980 Winter...
President-elect Donald Trump is seen during his meeting with Prince William, Prince of Wales at the Embassy of the United Kingdom's Residence on...
Warren Street in Hudson. Should the city of Hudson strip the mayor of power, hire a city manager and eliminate more than half of its Common Council...
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. President-elect Donald J. Trump was very clear in his Sunday interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press”...
Shoppers stroll on Lark Street in Albany during a 2020 holiday market event. Long ago in a gentler time, the biggest problem on Lark Street might have...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. It’s not often we are surprised and delighted by the actions of public officials when it comes to the...
Credit: Getty Images. If Felicia Pitts Davis wants to live out her religious faith in the public sphere, let her become a preacher. But if she wants...
Credit: Getty Images. New York’s new ethics and lobbying commission wants to be sure that when someone signs off on a mandatory form, they’re...
Credit: Getty Images. Every child in the United States has a right to a public education. Every one. That’s straightforward, right? If so, why is it...
Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting on Capitol Hill on December 2, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The more we learn about Pete Hegseth, the more we believe...
President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Nov. 29. The best thing that can be said about President Joe Biden’s decision...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeffrey Scherer. New York has received more bad news on the energy front: The New York Independent System Operator,...
Credit: Getty Images. With centuries of persecution to inform them, our nation’s founders knew the perils that came from the unwholesome union of...
A vehicle approaches the Canadian border crossing at Rouses Point, New York, on Oct. 13, 2000. The checkpoint is one of four scheduled to stop...
Credit: Getty Images. Good health. A well-seasoned turkey. The company of relatives or dear friends you haven't seen in too long. A sofa for the...
A visitor at John Dillon Park, a fully adaptive network of trails with campsites and recreational offerings near Long Lake in the Adirondack Park....
Catskill OTB has long been beleaguered by poor management and fiscal issues and should not be bailed out by the state. It’s a little comical that...
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 19. The South Carolina Republican introduced legislation that would require House members and...
Credit: Getty Images. The latest projections on New York’s population are in, and they’re not good. If the numbers crunchers at Cornell University...
Credit: Getty Images. A free and independent press is key to any well-functioning democracy. Watchdog journalism, in particular, provides a vital...
Credit: Getty Images. If you’re a retiree on Social Security, or a person who’s close to retirement and trying to figure out if you’ll be able...
Credit: Getty Images. Finally, Gov. Kathy Hochul has green-lighted a new toll that will help reduce traffic and pollution in Manhattan and provide...
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...