Editorial: Creative resistance

Acrylic street paint used by children taking part in a 2019 public arts camp with the Arts Center of the Capital Region. Their project: to paint the...

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Tell us: How’s the school cellphone ban going so far?

Students put their phones away in Yondr cellphone pouches on Sept. 4, 2025, at Steinmetz Freshman Leadership Academy in Schenectady. Back to school's...

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Editorial: Getting played by Putin

Firefighters work at a heavily damaged residential building following Russian drone and missile strikes in Kyiv on Sept. 7. That day's biggest-ever...

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Editorial: The Empire State of Sanity

Credit: Getty Images. Our full enjoyment of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness largely depends on another right: to have access...

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Editorial: Is this who we are?

People gather at a vigil in Seattle, Washington, on Sept. 10, 2025, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah earlier that day. In a free and...

14.09.2025 3

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Editorial: Storyteller's plight highlights concerns about Saratoga's camping ban

Bryan Browne, who is homeless, is seen sitting on the sidewalk in front of Kilwin's chocolate shop on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2025, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....

12.09.2025 2

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Editorial: All the king’s taxes

Credit: Getty Images. For the past eight months, President Donald J. Trump has been brazenly usurping Congress’ power to impose tariffs on imported...

08.09.2025 6

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Editorial: After World War II, 'a new and better world'

Soldiers and sailors line the decks of the USS Missouri to watch the signing of the instrument of surrender in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945. Thousands...

06.09.2025 4

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Editorial: FOIL conviction sets precedent worth remembering

Times Union photo illustration via Getty Images. Commmissioner of Accounts Dillon Moran stands outside City Hall in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Saratoga...

06.09.2025 4

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Editorial: Don’t retreat on clean energy

Credit: Getty Images. The ambitious targets set by 2019’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, along with subsequent acknowledgements...

04.09.2025 3

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Editorial: Mr. Trump vs. capitalism

Credit: Getty Images. Last Monday, President Donald J. Trump boasted that the U.S. government was getting richer thanks to his planned deal to take a...

02.09.2025 3

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Editorial: Eyeless in Gaza

A journalist holds a blood-spattered camera that belonged to Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser...

30.08.2025 2

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Editorial: The AI power question

Credit: Getty Images. Once upon a time, you’d ask a search engine a question, and you’d get a list of websites that would presumably provide an...

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Editorial: Mr. Putin must not win

A building burns in Okhtyrka, Ukraine, after a Russian drone attack on Aug. 20, 2025. The attack injured 14 people, including three young children. ...

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Editorial: Our plastic planet

Credit: Getty Images. An international summit in Geneva, Switzerland, convened to address global plastics pollution, ended in failure last week. It...

23.08.2025 2

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Editorial: South Colonie special education claims require immediate attention

A plan to send two 12-year-olds to Colonie Central High School is raising questions about the district's special education program. The South Colonie...

23.08.2025 3

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Editorial: Are public matching funds safe?

Michael Walborn in Veteran’s Memorial Park in Auburn: He says he was offered a payment to say he was making a political donation to a state Senate...

21.08.2025 5

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Editorial: Mr. Trump's minions target the AG

Attorney General Letitia James at a March 2024 news conference at the state Capitol in Albany. If the news that the Albany office of the U.S. Justice...

21.08.2025 10

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What other Capital Region school zones need speed cameras?

A William S. Hackett Middle School student dashes across Delaware Avenue in Albany after dismissal on Nov. 19, 2020. In its first 10 days of operation...

19.08.2025 4

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Editorial: MAGA, D.C.

Members of the National Guard stand outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., on August 14, 2025. President Donald J. Trump announced early last...

18.08.2025 7

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Editorial: Put squabbles aside so Albany police review board can do its job

Times Union photo illustration. What in the world is happening with Albany's Community Police Review Board? That's a valid question after reading...

16.08.2025 2

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Editorial: A long wait for justice

Firefighters and police at the scene of the May 2, 2013, house fire at 438 Hulett St. in Schenectady that killed four people and left Sa’Fyre Terry,...

14.08.2025 9

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Editorial: RFK Jr. is a threat to public health

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee in...

14.08.2025 6

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Editorial: Dirty politics isn’t the answer

Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. The attempt by Republican lawmakers in Texas to rig the 2026 congressional elections in their favor is...

12.08.2025 3

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Editorial: Sounding off in Saratoga

Credit: Getty Images. Trust us: We are no fans of the way Saratoga Springs has run its public meetings in recent years. But a proposal to limit the...

09.08.2025 3

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Editorial: When data becomes propaganda

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics building in Washington, D.C., is seen March 10, 2025. The U.S. economy is losing steam. That's the reasonable...

09.08.2025 4

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We ask, you answer: What do you think of the Thruway’s new service plazas?

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07.08.2025 3

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Editorial: The state must ensure cannabis shops aren't harmed by its mistake

Credit: Getty Images. The People’s Joint Cannabis Dispensary on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, on State Street in Schenectady, NY. It is one of many...

07.08.2025 3

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Editorial: The EPA's dangerous ignorance

Firefighters work amid the smoke and flames of the Palisades fire in Los Angeles, California, on January 11, 2025. The sun revolves around the Earth....

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Editorial: Gaza, starving for peace

Five-year-old Lana Salih Juha, who fled with her family from Gaza's Shuja'iyya neighborhood to the city center, has dropped to just 8 kilograms, or a...

05.08.2025 2

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Editorial: The ongoing addiction battle

Credit: Getty Images. Every decline in the number of deaths from drug overdose is a sigh of relief. But until the number of deaths reaches zero,...

02.08.2025 3

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Editorial: Hanging consumers out to dry

Credit: Getty Images. E-bikes with lithium batteries that overheat and catch fire. A scooter with a bad weld line that might break apart when you're...

30.07.2025 2

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Editorial: Shredding the Johnson Amendment

Credit: Getty Images. “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of...

28.07.2025 3

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Editorial: Reburying the Epstein files

Donald Trump, left, with his girlfriend — and future wife — Melania Knauss, alongside Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in...

27.07.2025 2

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Editorial: John Sarcone stays put

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III at a news conference in April. Almost two weeks ago, John A. Sarcone III...

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Editorial: Tracking the trackers

The view from Nippletop Mountain in Essex County, one of the Adirondack Park High Peaks. A state Department of Environmental Conservation news...

25.07.2025 3

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Editorial: Don’t tinker with the Fed

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference on June 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump made “You’re fired” his...

23.07.2025 6

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Editorial: Profiles in injustice

Credit: Getty Images. Border Czar Tom Homan’s declaration that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are racially profiling people —...

21.07.2025 4

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Editorial: Standing by Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and then-Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump meet in September 2024 in New York City. Here...

19.07.2025 2

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Editorial: Don't sell off Saint Rose campus without a plan

Last month, the board of the Albany County Pine Hills Land Authority selected a planning and engineering firm to develop a long-term redevelopment...

18.07.2025 10

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Editorial: Forecasting uncertainty

The Trump administration has canceled a $3 million grant to the Mesonet weather data network, based at the University at Albany, which was meant for...

17.07.2025 3

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Editorial: Keep Emil Bove off the bench

Emil Bove, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, is sworn in before testifying during his June 25 confirmation hearing in the...

16.07.2025 2

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Editorial: An ailing health agency

Credit: Getty Images. It’s no small irony that just a couple of weeks after Gov. Kathy Hochul released a final report on New York’s “Master...

15.07.2025 10

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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...

12.07.2025 3

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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...

11.07.2025 6

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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...

11.07.2025 3

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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...

09.07.2025 4

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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...

08.07.2025 4

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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...

07.07.2025 10

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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...

05.07.2025 10

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