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Editorial: A college’s next chapter

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...

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Editorial: An Olympic return? Yes, please

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...

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Editorial: Don’t let Mr. Trump off the hook

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...

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Editorial: How much democracy can Hudson handle?

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...

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Editorial: No pardons on either side of Jan. 6

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”...

12.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Lark Street’s new challenge

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...

11.12.2024 9

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Editorial: Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office puts some teeth into FOIL

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...

11.12.2024 8

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Editorial: Intolerance on the bench

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...

11.12.2024 6

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Editorial: Fix this ethics lapse

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...

07.12.2024 10

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Editorial: Lessons unlearned

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...

05.12.2024 10

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Editorial: Pete Hegseth as defense secretary? Absolutely not

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...

04.12.2024 5

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Editorial: A pardon that shouldn't be forgiven

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...

03.12.2024 7

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Editorial: Green money? Hardly.

Times Union photo illustration by Jeffrey Scherer. New York has received more bad news on the energy front: The New York Independent System Operator,...

03.12.2024 5

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Editorial: A freedom under siege

Credit: Getty Images. With centuries of persecution to inform them, our nation’s founders knew the perils that came from the unwholesome union of...

01.12.2024 10

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Editorial: In this case, we want a more open border

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...

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Editorial: Put more giving into Thanksgiving

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...

29.11.2024 5

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Editorial: The right kind of access

A visitor at John Dillon Park, a fully adaptive network of trails with campsites and recreational offerings near Long Lake in the Adirondack Park....

27.11.2024 6

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Editorial: Don't save the Catskill OTB

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...

26.11.2024 4

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Editorial: Nancy Mace's proud bigotry

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...

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Editorial: The late Empire State?

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...

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Editorial: Mr. Schumer's Senate must pass the PRESS Act now

Credit: Getty Images. A free and independent press is key to any well-functioning democracy. Watchdog journalism, in particular, provides a vital...

21.11.2024 5

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Editorial: The bill looms for seniors

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...

21.11.2024 6

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Editorial: Ms. Hochul’s new toll plan

Credit: Getty Images. Finally, Gov. Kathy Hochul has green-lighted a new toll that will help reduce traffic and pollution in Manhattan and provide...

20.11.2024 4

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Editorial: Mr. Trump's chaos Cabinet

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...

16.11.2024 5

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2024 Citizens Laureate

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...

16.11.2024 6

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Editorial: Transparency amid emergency

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...

15.11.2024 10

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Editorial: Why won't Saratoga Springs just schedule a special election already?

Saratoga Springs City Hall. Election fatigue is likely widespread at the moment. Nevertheless, elections are good, right? We should all be able to...

14.11.2024 6

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Editorial: The next big school thing

Credit: Getty Images. New York’s educational leaders have laid out their vision for the next big thing: no more mandatory Regents exams. That...

09.11.2024 8

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Editorial: New York must do more to vet foreign contract workers

Credit: Getty Images. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the state inspector general’s office are investigating fraudulent residency...

07.11.2024 3

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Editorial: Election Day

Guy Parsons via Cagle Cartoons, caglecartoons.com   We’re often told that voting is our responsibility, our duty as citizens. We talk less often...

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Editorial: This climate act’s getting old

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...

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Editorial: Rising above the fear

Credit: Getty Images. If you’re unusually nervous, jittery, tense, spooked, afraid, terrified or just simply exhausted at the thought of this...

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Editorial: What Cuomo 'didn't recall'

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...

01.11.2024 10

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Editorial: Kiln proposed for Rensselaer a lose-lose for community

Environmental concerns so numerous regarding the Harbor Rock proposed construction aggregate kiln for Rensselaer that it should be nixed. It would be...

31.10.2024 4

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Editorial: Proposals suggest a brighter future for downtown Albany

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...

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Editorial: Busting ghost candidates

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...

30.10.2024 5

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Editorial: Donald Trump is unfit

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump after speaking at a Turning Point Action campaign rally Thursday in Las Vegas,...

26.10.2024 9

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Editorial: For president, Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an NCAA championship teams celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on July 22 in Washington,...

25.10.2024 6

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Editorial: Vote 'yes' on Proposition 1

Credit: Getty Images. Here are the words New York Secretary of State Edward Flynn used to open the Constitutional Convention that was convened in...

24.10.2024 10

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Editorial: Voters should vote where they really live

New York's Hudson Valley is home to several congressional swing districts that could determine House control, and many voters are desperate to turn...

24.10.2024 4

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Editorial: For state Legislature

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...

23.10.2024 5

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Editorial: For Congress: Josh Riley

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...

22.10.2024 10

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Editorial: Preserve ballot integrity

Credit: Getty Images. The latest court battle over how elections are run in New York brings to mind an observation from Winston Churchill:...

20.10.2024 10

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Editorial: Lost in the 'Twilight Zone'

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...

19.10.2024 4

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Editorial: Bethlehem police owe residents full picture of high school threat response

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...

18.10.2024 4

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Editorial: With planned cutbacks, Amtrak is on the wrong track

An Amtrak passenger train heads south from Schodack in July 2024. Starting next month, Amtrak will cut three daily round trips between Rensselaer and...

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Editorial: Beyond the methadone clinic

Methadone daily doses and lockbox. Credit: Getty Images. Many people in recovery rely on access to methadone, the gold standard for treating opioid...

16.10.2024 10

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Editorial: A prescription for better home care

Credit: Getty Images. A Georgia-based company has gotten a state contract to take over a popular Medicaid home care program, consolidating the work...

15.10.2024 5

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Editorial: Honoring Oct. 7's victims

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...

07.10.2024 4

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Editorial: Mr. Trump’s violent talk

Credit: Getty Images. Outside of dystopian fiction or an extraordinarily repressive regime, it’s almost impossible to imagine that a presidential...

06.10.2024 3

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