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Fred Lebrun

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LeBrun: The world is choking on plastic

LeBrun: The world is choking on plastic

Credit: Getty Images. “Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?” That’s what Walter Brooke tells...

09.06.2025 10

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LeBrun: Downtown Albany needs a canal

A rendering by artist Len Tantillo of his plan to build a canal through downtown Albany. Downtown Albany has gotten downright tattered and scruffy....

12.05.2025 4

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LeBrun: Let’s tidy up our own yard

Times Union photo illustration. It’s impossible to take our minds off the reckless disregard for your life and mine going on in Washington at the...

14.04.2025 4

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LeBrun: Is NYC ready for Cuomo?

Governor Andrew Cuomo at a news conference in Albany on March 15, 2020. With all the suspense of whether or not the garbage truck will show up this...

11.03.2025 3

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LeBrun: Tough road ahead for Hochul

Gov. Kathy Hochul address176 new troopers at graduation exercises for the New York State Police Academy at the Empire State Plaza on Thursday, Feb....

11.02.2025 20

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LeBrun: A toast to Mary Anne Krupsak

Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak stands behind Gov. Hugh Carey as he gives the State of the State Address in the Capitol's Assembly chamber on...

13.01.2025 8

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LeBrun: Climate dreams going up in smoke

Fire breaks out along Harlem River Drive in Manhattan on November 19, 2024. The three-alarm fire is one of hundreds of brush and wildfires the New...

11.12.2024 4

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LeBrun: November is full of surprises

Credit: Getty Images. The thought of Andrew Cuomo running for mayor of New York naturally conjures Halloween rather than Election Day, but they are...

13.10.2024 2

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Lebrun: Cuomo and Hochul, in their fall colors

Gov. Andrew Cuomo answers questions during a March 2020 COVID-19 news briefing. The former governor is scheduled to testify in public before a...

09.09.2024 2

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