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Good luck finding award-winning NY wines behind canned cocktails

Last month, Wine Enthusiast magazine named the Finger Lakes the 2025 “American Wine Region of the Year.” They noted that “the Finger Lakes...

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Lawrence Doolittle

Period products in NY contain dangerous chemicals. Hochul has to act

No one should have to choose between managing their period and protecting their health. But right now, millions of New Yorkers do. Menstrual...

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Nathalia Fernandez And Briana Carbajal 

There's another front in Trump's war on free speech: West Point

Tim Bakken, the longest-serving law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has been a thorn in the side of the government for many...

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Rob Miraldi 

Why won't NY legislators attack rising energy bills?

Over the past decade, New York’s lawmakers have voted for legislation that emphasizes aggressive emissions reductions, policy mandates and resource...

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Marc Brown 

Delayed food assistance risks harming NY's child care workforce

The delayed issuance of November SNAP benefits, a lifeline for millions of New York’s adults and children, risks setting off ripple effects that...

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Alyson Silkowski 

Why the construction industry's mental health crisis needs attention

A century ago, it was common to expect one worker fatality for every million dollars spent on a construction project. Thanks to industry-wide...

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Dan Lester And Darcy Gruttadaro 

We cannot allow Holocaust denial to masquerade as “debate”

On Oct. 28, Tucker Carlson released a two-hour interview with Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who calls the Holocaust “a hoax,” claims “the...

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Jack Simony 

New York must prioritize state troopers' mental health.

There’s an expression often used to describe working in law enforcement: The job is 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. What this means is that while...

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Charlie W. Murphy