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Editorial: Forcing solar farms on upstate towns is not the right approach

A solar installment along the Mohawk River in Schenectady County. This editorial board continues to support New York's Climate Leadership and...

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Editorial: Put wine in New York's grocery stores already

Credit: Getty Images. A measure with strong bipartisan statewide support is kept off the table year after year by special interests. No, it’s not...

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Editorial: Senate should go 0-for-3

Editorial: Senate should go 0-for-3

Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI director, arrives to speak during an inauguration event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025, in...

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Editorial: Legislature can prevent the next fatal prison beating

Barbed wire surrounds Marcy Correctional Facility state prison on Route 88 in Marcy, outside Utica. Advocacy groups and journalists — from the...

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Editorial: An unconstitutional order

Editorial: An unconstitutional order

Credit: Getty Images. Hours after he swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," President Donald J....

27.01.2025 8

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Editorial: Mr. Trump’s global retreat

Editorial: Mr. Trump’s global retreat

Credit: Getty Images. If you searched online this past week for articles about President Donald J. Trump’s decision to sever ties with the World...

25.01.2025 4

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Editorial: A show of contempt for America

Editorial: A show of contempt for America

Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) The reprieves...

24.01.2025 5

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Editorial: Stop dumping leachate toxins in our rivers

Editorial: Stop dumping leachate toxins in our rivers

A boat heads down the Hudson River on July 10, 2024. The city of Albany and many other upstate municipalities pay to have toxins dumped in upstate...

24.01.2025 6

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Editorial: Guardianship under the microscope

Editorial: Guardianship under the microscope

New York’s guardianship program getting a look from the state Attorney General is great, but it also needs the insight of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the...

22.01.2025 4

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Editorial: A town without a quorum

Editorial: A town without a quorum

Berne Town Supervisor Dennis Palow and former town board member and Clerk Anita Clayton at town hall in Berne in October. Palow pitched Clayton to be...

21.01.2025 3

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Editorial: A jumpstart for Albany

Editorial: A jumpstart for Albany

The Albany skyline and Half Moon weathervane atop the former Delaware & Hudson Building, now SUNY Plaza, is seen from above Frontage Road on April 9,...

21.01.2025 8

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Editorial: Better child care benefits every New Yorker

Editorial: Better child care benefits every New Yorker

Playground equipment is ready for children at Faith’s House, a daycare center serving workers at Saratoga Race Course that opened in 2021. Q:...

18.01.2025 9

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Editorial: The fix in Schoharie County

The people of the state of New York have long entrusted the integrity of their elections to a two-party system of oversight. The Schoharie Country...

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Editorial: School meals should be free — and nutritious

Editorial: School meals should be free — and nutritious

Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that breakfast and lunch should be made available at no cost to all students in New York,...

16.01.2025 4

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Editorials: In Los Angeles, the fires this time

Editorials: In Los Angeles, the fires this time

A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills on Jan. 8 as wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds moved...

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Editorial: Secrecy at NYRA

Credit: Getty Images. New year, new reason to repeat this mantra of government transparency: If you take taxpayers' money, you're accountable to the...

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Editorial: We must address extremism

Editorial: We must address extremism

Flowers are left as a memorial Jan. 2, 2025, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, the day after an attack in the French Quarter. At least 14...

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Editorial: Don’t delay, Mr. Garland

Editorial: Don’t delay, Mr. Garland

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland addresses members of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on November 18, 2024, in...

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Editorial: The AG walks away from Marcy beating

State Attorney General Letitia James has removed her office from all matters connected to the death of Robert Brooks after he was beaten by...

10.01.2025 5

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Editorial: Closing Marcy isn't the answer

Entrance to Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, Oneida County, is seen Dec. 19, 2024. Please don't dismiss the corrections officers who pummeled and...

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Editorial: Yes, remember this day

Supporters of Donald Trump gather outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 06, 2021. Rioters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers were set...

08.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Climate bill comes due

Credit: Getty Images. In the enormous barrel of fossil fuel industry profits, $3 billion is a relative drop. For New York and its taxpayers,...

08.01.2025 4

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Editorial: Jimmy Carter's wonderful example of a life well lived

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords on February 3, 2016 in London. ...

07.01.2025 10

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Editorial: How did Milton Arroyo slip through?

Milton Arroyo, 58, was fired from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida in 2017 after he allegedly sent explicit messages to students at a...

04.01.2025 2

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Editorial: Foundation aid needs fixing

Time for the state to tweak its formula for funding public schools. New York spends more per pupil on public education than any other state. You...

03.01.2025 3

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Editorial: Fix SeeClickFix

A large pothole in the middle of Northern Boulevard in Albany is seen Jan. 20, 2023. See? Check. Click? Check. Fix? Well, hang on, we're working on...

31.12.2024 4

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Editorial: An environmental insult

Truck traffic from the SA Dunn landfill moves along Partition Street in Rensselaer on July 1, 2021. The only thing more disappointing and...

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Editorial: Donald Trump's war on polling

President-elect Donald J. Trump is suing the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer. In President-elect Donald J. Trump's brain, "election...

28.12.2024 4

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Editorial: For Andrew Cuomo, lessons from downfall remain unlearned

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks after a meeting with the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Washington,...

27.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Assad's favorite congresswoman

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, arrives for a meeting at the Hart Senate Office...

25.12.2024 5

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Editorial: A glaring security gap

Credit: Getty Images. The idea that wholly unqualified people might be getting jobs with New York through nefarious means is troubling enough. That...

24.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Freedom v. Texas

Credit: Getty Images. A lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills to a Texas...

24.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Senate must reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not the right choice to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Getty Images) There's a reason the arrival of...

21.12.2024 5

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Editorial: No place for violence

Police work at the scene where the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot outside a hotel on December 4, 2024, in Manhattan. The cold-...

21.12.2024 10

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Editorial: Democrats violated spirit of public campaign finance system

Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. Last week, without public notice or discussion, Democrats on the state's Public Campaign Finance...

20.12.2024 6

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Editorial: Less sunlight in Albany

Credit: Getty Images. A month ago, this editorial board called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign legislation backed by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli...

19.12.2024 10

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Editorial: A college’s next chapter

The College of Saint Rose campus and surrounding buildings, looking east down Western Ave. in Albany, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The future of...

17.12.2024 3

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Editorial: An Olympic return? Yes, please

The bobsled and luge run at Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid in February 2005, the 25th anniversary of the 1980 Winter...

16.12.2024 2

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Editorial: Don’t let Mr. Trump off the hook

President-elect Donald Trump is seen during his meeting with Prince William, Prince of Wales at the Embassy of the United Kingdom's Residence on...

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Editorial: How much democracy can Hudson handle?

Warren Street in Hudson. Should the city of Hudson strip the mayor of power, hire a city manager and eliminate more than half of its Common Council...

13.12.2024 4

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Editorial: No pardons on either side of Jan. 6

The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. President-elect Donald J. Trump was very clear in his Sunday interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press”...

12.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Lark Street’s new challenge

Shoppers stroll on Lark Street in Albany during a 2020 holiday market event. Long ago in a gentler time, the biggest problem on Lark Street might...

11.12.2024 7

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Editorial: Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office puts some teeth into FOIL

Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. It’s not often we are surprised and delighted by the actions of public officials when it comes to the...

11.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Intolerance on the bench

Credit: Getty Images. If Felicia Pitts Davis wants to live out her religious faith in the public sphere, let her become a preacher. But if she...

11.12.2024 6

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Editorial: Fix this ethics lapse

Credit: Getty Images. New York’s new ethics and lobbying commission wants to be sure that when someone signs off on a mandatory form, they’re...

07.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Lessons unlearned

Credit: Getty Images. Every child in the United States has a right to a public education. Every one. That’s straightforward, right? If so, why is...

05.12.2024 10

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Editorial: Pete Hegseth as defense secretary? Absolutely not

Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting on Capitol Hill on December 2, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The more we learn about Pete Hegseth, the more we believe...

04.12.2024 2

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Editorial: A pardon that shouldn't be forgiven

President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Nov. 29. The best thing that can be said about President Joe Biden’s decision...

03.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Green money? Hardly.

Times Union photo illustration by Jeffrey Scherer. New York has received more bad news on the energy front: The New York Independent System...

03.12.2024 6

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Editorial: A freedom under siege

Credit: Getty Images. With centuries of persecution to inform them, our nation’s founders knew the perils that came from the unwholesome union of...

01.12.2024 4

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