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Editorial: State must improve access to mental health care

Editorial: State must improve access to mental health care

News that the Center for Disability Services plans to discontinue psychiatric care is just the latest evidence of shrinking access to desperately...

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Commentary: Managed care for Medicaid's behavioral health services has been a disaster

Commentary: Managed care for Medicaid's behavioral health services has been a disaster

Credit: Getty Images. It’s been 10 years since the Cuomo administration imposed a managed-care model on Medicaid’s behavioral health services,...

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Lauri Cole

Editorial: Second boat strike was a 'clearly illegal' order

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a briefing in the U.S. Capitol last month.  In January 1944, a German U-boat sent two torpedoes into...

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Commentary: New York schools and campuses need clean-energy investment

Commentary: New York schools and campuses need clean-energy investment

A solar array on the roof of the Academic Podium at the University at Albany, seen in 2022. New York’s students walk into school buildings every...

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Melinda Person

President Trump is right: Mamdani is not a jihadist

President Donald Trump meets with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Nov. 21. There is at least one area where U.S....

03.12.2025 9

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Matt Castelli

Commentary: Let Catskill OTB use its capital fund to pay its debts

Commentary: Let Catskill OTB use its capital fund to pay its debts

Times Union archive photo by Emilie Munson. When any complex public corporation winds down, the first step is always the same: Settle the books....

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Wanda Williams

Commentary: Make food programs a priority in next year's budget

Commentary: Make food programs a priority in next year's budget

Credit: Getty Images. Millions of Americans depend on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program to put food on the table. Nearly 3 million...

03.12.2025 1

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Lea Webb And Christina Christman

Letters: Bethlehem schools should drop Megyn Kelly from its Hall of Fame

Letters: Bethlehem schools should drop Megyn Kelly from its Hall of Fame

Letters to the editor can be submitted by sending an email to tuletters@timesunion.com or completing this form. See our guidelines on letters. I’m...

02.12.2025 1

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Jochnowitz: All the president’s lawyers

Attorney Scott Grubman, right, stands with his client, Kenneth Chesebro, as Chesebro is sworn in during a plea deal hearing in front of Fulton...

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Jay Jochnowitz

Editorial: A very bad Ukraine deal

Editorial: A very bad Ukraine deal

Residents deal with the aftermath of Russian missile and drone strikes on a residential building in Kyiv on November 25. According to...

30.11.2025 1

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Commentary: Indigenous sovereignty must be part of New York's climate response

The Western New York Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP, is a 1,250-acre tech park located in Genesee County. A massive...

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Majadi Baruti