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Editorial: Peace in Gaza? We’ll see.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a White House dinner on July 7, 2025. News that a ceasefire in the war in...

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Editorial: Equal justice in the Spa City

Lexis Figuereo, the leader of Saratoga Black Lives Matter, during a news conference  at City Hall in October 2024. There are two ways of looking at...

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Editorial: Signs of progress on workplace misconduct

When a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul was accused of sexually harassing a coworker, that aide was quickly put on leave as an outside investigation was...

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Editorial: The fragile rule of law

Credit: Getty Images. In New York, a lawyer who tried to help President Donald J. Trump overturn the 2020 election has been formally disbarred. In...

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Editorial: Profiles in capitulation

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski during an April 2024 hearing. The Alaska Republican voted in favor of a spending bill that includes major elements of...

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Editorial: What Constitution?

Credit: Getty Images. It was just about a year ago that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave presidents such broad immunity from criminal...

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Editorial: Happy birthday, America

Credit: Getty Images. America needs its Fourth of July celebration more than ever. It's an opportunity to remember what we stand for, and what we...

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Editorial: Ms. Hochul's nuclear embrace is a powerful step

Credit: Getty Images. New York needs more electricity, and it needs a far greater portion of that power to come from sources that contribute as little...

04.07.2025 2

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Editorial: Islamophobic attacks will get someone killed

State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani during an primary night gathering in Queens; the Democrat won his party's nomination for mayor of New York City....

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Editorial: In pursuit of safer police chases

After leading Troy police on a high-speed chase on Jan. 25, 2025, a driver hit a house on Division Street in Waterford. Police officers make...

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Editorial: One Big Ugly Bill

Credit: Getty Images. The more we learn about the One Big Beautiful Bill, the uglier it gets. We won’t begin to attempt to dissect all that’s...

30.06.2025 4

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Editorial: Do your job, Congress

Credit: Getty Images. Only one of the two possible outcomes of the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities can be true: Either they...

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Editorial: Take action on prison reform

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

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Editorial: Where's that Saratoga shelter?

A man sleeps on a Congress Street bench in Saratoga Springs.  Saratoga Springs Commissioner of Public Safety Tim Coll wasn't necessarily wrong when...

26.06.2025 4

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Editorial: Take this test elsewhere

Soil contaminated with PCBs is dredged from the Hudson River in Fort Edward, Washington County, on August 11, 2009. If any place has reason to be wary...

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Editorial: Alienating the world

Credit: Getty Images. The travel advisories are chilling: political unrest. Destabilized government institutions. Violent crime. Profiling and random...

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Editorial: The prospect of war with Iran

People look over damage to buildings in Tehran's Nobonyad Square on June 13 following Israeli airstrikes on Iran.  Editor's note: The editorial...

23.06.2025 10

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Editorial: Still dirty after all these years

Times Union photo illustration by Carin Lane. More than a decade ago, this editorial board wrote of how a state program to clean up and redevelop...

22.06.2025 2

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Editorial: DOT roadwork leaves steps untaken

Barbara Faraone stands on her front porch, looking across Saratoga Lake and State Route 9P on June 12, 2025. To understand why so many New Yorkers...

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Editorial: Don't rank Andrew Cuomo

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in September, when he testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the U.S. Capitol. Cuomo told...

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Editorial: A hospital’s bill

Albany Medical Center Hospital on Nov. 26, 2024. Albany Medical Center's bill has come due at last: The hospital will pay the state $375,000 to settle...

18.06.2025 2

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Editorial: Re-erasing Henry Johnson

The statue honoring Henry Johnson near the Madison Avenue entrance to Washington Park. In March, the Pentagon took down a web page noting the renaming...

17.06.2025 4

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Editorial: For Albany mayor: Dorcey Applyrs

Dorcey Applyrs, Albany city auditor, at a news conference in 2024. Albany voters have an enviable array of choices in the upcoming Democratic mayoral...

14.06.2025 3

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Editorial: Trash the plastic, New York

A tractor moves garbage at the Colonie landfill. The world is awash in garbage, and much of that garbage is plastic.  The evidence is everywhere....

12.06.2025 10

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Editorial: A dangerous escalation in Los Angeles

Police officers and National Guard troops face off with protesters outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, California, on June 8,...

11.06.2025 5

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Editorial: Disinvesting in the future

The Glenmont Job Corps Center will close down after the U.S. Department of Labor ordered a "phased pause" in funding of nearly 100 facilities across...

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Editorial: End this atrocity now

Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity distribution point in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on June 5, 2025. It has been said that Hamas and its...

09.06.2025 10

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Editorial: Connect NY already

Credit: Getty Images.   For years, state and federal governments have made enormous taxpayer-funded investments in broadband. So after all this time...

08.06.2025 2

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Editorial: Politicizing food aid

Credit: Getty Images. No surprise here: President Donald J. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t beautiful in the slightest — and the changes...

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Editorial: The lame Trump mascot name game

A mural outside of Massapequa High School in Nassau County features an image of the school's mascot, the "Chiefs."    Presidents of the United...

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Editorial: Trump's partisan pardons

Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County in Virginia, in 2020. Convicted in 2024 of a range of corruption felonies, he was pardoned last...

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Editorial: An attack on our humanities

A view of the Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. What is it about the historic Ten Broeck Mansion’s plan to create its...

03.06.2025 4

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Editorial: America's broken promises

An Afghan interpreter working with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th displays a patch showing the Afghan and U.S. flags at Combat...

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Editorial: A technological rush

A sample printed ballot from an ExpressVote machine is displayed during a 2019 demonstration in Texas.  Why has the New York state Board of Elections...

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Editorial: Don't green-light this ambulance plan

Use of the Rensselaer Volunteer Ambulance building is at issue in the city of Rensselaer. Bad politics? That's what Rensselaer's Republican mayor...

30.05.2025 4

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Editorial: Potential for progress at Norlite

The Norlite plant in Cohoes. In 1977, the Norlite shale aggregate company in Cohoes began fueling its kilns by incinerating hazardous waste instead...

29.05.2025 4

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Editorial: A hailstorm of bullets

 (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) Is a firearm equipped with a “forced-reset trigger” a machine...

28.05.2025 3

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Editorial: 'These honored dead'

This Nov. 19, 1863, photo shows President Abraham Lincoln, center with no hat, surrounded by the crowd at the dedication of a portion ofthe...

27.05.2025 3

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Editorial: Enough with the legal games

An abortion rights activist flies an upside down US flag, the international sign of distress, outside of the US Supreme Court during a protest in...

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Editorial: Zeldin's PFAS changes go too far

Some 'forever chemicals' are now going to be in drinking water longer than previously promised. The EPA’s reversal on drinking water standards for...

24.05.2025 4

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Editorial: Bad vaccine science, bad vaccine policy

Emergency Medial Technicians with the Albany County Sheriff's Department administer a booster COVID-19 vaccine shot in 2021. In his first term as...

24.05.2025 3

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Editorial: Blaming the wrong people

Credit: Getty Images. Lt. Brian Strock with the Watervliet Police Department holds a police report on the accidental death of a toddler that the...

22.05.2025 10

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Editorial: The saga of 1211 Western Avenue is an ongoing mess

The stalled housing project at 1211 Western Ave. in Albany is seen Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. The Central Warehouse north of downtown Albany has long...

22.05.2025 2

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Editorial: At the state Capitol, a new Approach

A 1908 postcard showing the state Capitol's Eastern Approach less than a decade after construction of the building was completed. The Eastern Approach...

21.05.2025 3

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Editorial: Say no to this ‘gift’

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News via Cagle Cartoons. For most of the 248 years since the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a nation that...

20.05.2025 4

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Editorial: An attack on health care

Credit: Getty Images. For all its flaws, the United States’ system of health care has improved dramatically in at least one respect in the past 15...

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Editorial: We need experts, not influencers

Jeanine Pirro speaks during an anti-SAFE Act rally in Albany's West Capitol Park in 2013. The Fox News personality was nominated by President Donald...

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Editorial: Stand up to these bullies

President Donald Trump addresses Gov. Janet Mills of Maine on Feb. 21, 2025, after she said "See you in court" over the issue of trans women in...

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Editorial: The cost of fear

Credit: Getty Images. We are still mostly, thank goodness, a society that recoils at senseless violence. When it occurs, we still feel moved to...

11.05.2025 4

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Editorial: Don't do it, Democrats

Times Union photo illustration by Ty Stewart. New York Democrats are attempting to subvert the purpose and spirit of New York's campaign finance law....

09.05.2025 4

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