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Commentary: As federal funding shrinks, New York must invest in biomedical research

Credit: Getty Images. New Yorkers pride themselves on leading the nation in medicine, education and innovation. Yet today, with federal biomedical...

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Whitney Longmate

Commentary: A better way to respond to mental health emergencies

Credit: Getty Images. Last year in the city of Buffalo, the 911 call center dispatched a police car or ambulance, and sometimes both, to someone...

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Jane Mogavero And Michael Hogan

Commentary: Hospice is key to quality end-of-life care. Aid in dying makes investment more urgent.

Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to sign the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law marks a significant moment for New York. It...

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Jeanne Chirico

Rensselaer County ballot errors shake confidence in voting system

Ballot results in Rensselaer County's general election were called into question, and then proven to be inaccurate. Paramount to our democracy is a...

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Letters: Improving education not a simple answer

Letters: Improving education not a simple answer

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

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Jochnowitz: A troll, a crime and a king

Jochnowitz: A troll, a crime and a king

Credit: Getty Images. I grew up in a town on Long Island that had been around since 1665, when, the story goes, settler Richard Smythe made a deal...

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Jay Jochnowitz

Editorial: AI needs smart regulation

Editorial: AI needs smart regulation

Credit: Getty Images. Videos of impossibly smart dogs playing with irresistibly adorable babies. Deceptively convincing non-human customer service...

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Times Union Editorial Board

Commentary: For inmates abused in New York prisons, justice remains out of reach

Commentary: For inmates abused in New York prisons, justice remains out of reach

Credit: Getty Images. Equal justice under law is a bedrock principle in New York jurisprudence. Unfortunately, for victims of sexual abuse in our...

26.12.2025 2

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Eric T. Schneiderman And Richard A. Dollinger

Editorial: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Editorial: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Credit: Getty Images. In 1897, a young girl wrote to The Sun, a New York City newspaper, asking whether Santa Claus was real. To the delight of...

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Times Union Editorial Board

Editorial: When it comes to transparency, Hochul is naughty indeed

Photo illustration by Ty Stewart / Times Union archive. Gov. Kathy Hochul has been named to the New York Coalition for Open Government's 'naughty...

24.12.2025 1

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Times Union Editorial Board

Commentary: Hochul's veto of Grieving Families Act was well deserved

Credit: Getty Images. As the saying goes, the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. New...

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Michael Coffey