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Commentary: Breaking the trauma cycle with psilocybin

Psilocybin mushrooms growing in a Washington, D.C., facility in 2020. Some states and cities have moved to decriminalize the Schedule 1 controlled...

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Daniel Carcillo And Amy Paulin

Commentary: On protecting immigrants, will New York choose complicity or courage?

A woman pleads with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers not to detain her because she has a 15 year old son at home. She was arrested June...

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Murad Awawdeh

LeBrun: Affordability comes for N.Y.'s energy plans

Credit: Getty Images. Already we’ve had two nights below zero and winter has not yet arrived. The shudder at what that portends, which I no doubt...

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Fred Lebrun

Editorial: National insecurity

Credit: Getty Images. At least we’re not angling to annex Greenland or Canada. That’s one of the few positive takeaways from the Trump...

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Times Union Editorial Board

Editorial: In Albany, enforcement of codes must become a top priority

Firefighters battle the flames Thursday afternoon at a house fire on Western Avenue in Albany. The Albany building where two people died in a fire...

12.12.2025 2

Times Union Editorial Board

Editorial: An ethical triple bogey for the State Police

State Police Superintendent Steven James congratulates graduating troopers in May 2024, during a ceremony at Empire State Convention Center in...

12.12.2025 3

Times Union Editorial Board

Commentary: Protect New York's small businesses by curbing predatory lawsuits

Credit: Getty Images. Two sisters on Long Island thought they were serving Blizzards. Instead, they got buried in one. Patty DeMint and Michelle...

12.12.2025 2

Lauren Zelt

Commentary: The Packaging Reduction Act is greenwashing. N.Y. must do better.

Credit: Getty Images. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is being marketed as a bold environmental policy. In reality, it is...

12.12.2025 2

Neil Seldman And Yayoi Koizumi

Commentary: Get PFAS and other toxins out of menstrual products

Credit: Getty Images. In recent years, there has been increasing awareness and concern surrounding PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,...

10.12.2025 5

Christina Thompson

Editorial: A year after Brooks' murder, reforms deferred

A correction officer stomps on the crotch of Robert L. Brooks as other officers hold him down on an infirmary bed at Marcy Correctional Facility on...

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