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Editorial: Another daylight robbery of the U.S. Treasury

Editorial: Another daylight robbery of the U.S. Treasury

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) A few weeks ago, this editorial board assailed...

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Editorial: Troy City Hall redux

Editorial: Troy City Hall redux

The city of Troy is moving ahead with plans to remake Proctor’s Theater into City Hall, even though the current space is functional. The lame-duck...

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Editorial: Climate Act hits headwinds

Editorial: Climate Act hits headwinds

Credit: Getty Images. Six years ago, New York passed a landmark law to dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century....

17.11.2025 2

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Editorial: Happily married (for now)

Supporters of gay marriage in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2015, two months before the Obergefell decision legalized those unions across...

15.11.2025 2

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Editorial: Ulster town supervisor owes voters an explanation for his departure

Credit: Getty Images. James Quigley is the Republican candidate for Ulster County executive and current Ulster town supervisor. His campaign...

15.11.2025 1

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Editorial: With flight cancellations, Trump causes more needless shutdown pain

Editorial: With flight cancellations, Trump causes more needless shutdown pain

Travelers wait at a security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on Nov. 7, 2025. Hundreds of flights were canceled...

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Editorial: Is this the end of the Trump trade war?

Editorial: Is this the end of the Trump trade war?

Credit: Getty Images. If the questions Wednesday from both ends of the Supreme Court’s ideological spectrum are any indication of how it will rule...

11.11.2025 2

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Editorial: Justice not served in Columbia County

Former Columbia County District Attorney’s decision to ignore the state’s 2019 discovery laws served neither justice nor the alleged victim. The...

07.11.2025 4

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Editorial: Dereliction of duty in Sullivan County

Editorial: Dereliction of duty in Sullivan County

The Sullivan County jail. On the evening of Aug. 24, Sincere McNeal was arrested in the village of Monticello along with two other men during a...

07.11.2025 2

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Editorial: Why is it so hard for the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors to fo

Clifford Hay, the Schoharie County Democratic commissioner for the Board of Elections, was reappointed by the Board of Supervisors after failing to...

05.11.2025 2

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Editorial: D.C. impasse produces political hunger games

Editorial: D.C. impasse produces political hunger games

Mechanicville Area Community Service Center’s food pantry shelves are thinly stocked on Wednesday. Similar facilities around the nation braced for a...

03.11.2025 3

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Editorial: License controversy raises questions no one is answering

Editorial: License controversy raises questions no one is answering

Conflicting federal and state explanations obscure the truth behind a viral CDL case. The commercial driver’s license at the heart of a viral storm...

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Editorial: Honoring the 2025 Citizens Laureate

At the University at Albany Foundation's Citizen Laureate Awards dinner on Oct. 30, 2019.  Thomas Tyrrell, Marcia J. White and Andrew Berglund have...

01.11.2025 3

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We asked, you answered: New Canadian tariffs edition

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh on Oct. 13. (Evan Vucci /AFP via...

29.10.2025 5

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Editorial: Trump plans a daylight robbery of the Justice Department

U.S. President Donald J. Trump during an Oct. 16 event in the Oval Office. Trump submitted two claims in 2023 and 2024 seeking compensation for the...

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Editorial: Cuomo makes a final appeal to hate, fear

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo during last week's final New York City mayoral debate at Rockefeller Center. (Photo by Angelina Katsanis-Pool/Getty Images)...

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Editorial: Make it a crime to stand still during a murder

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: Test Howitzers in the Adirondack Park? Let's pass

A decommissioned missile silo in the town of Lewis has been used for wargames that have drawn criticism from neighbors. Michael Hopmeier, the owner...

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Editorial: George Santos is free — who's next on Trump's list?

George Santos at an October 2024 film premiere in Newport Beach, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images) Five months after he was...

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Editorial: Head Start is a success story. Why mess with success?

Credit: Getty Images. Albany County's Head Start program, which serves many immigrant families, usually has a waiting list. This year, its...

22.10.2025 5

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Editorial: Young Republicans or Hitler Youth?

Horizontal photo of a REPUBLICAN FLAG with a stylized ELEPHANT as its' symbol on the flag. The Republican Flag is laying on a detail of the American...

20.10.2025 2

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Editorial: Grown-ups needed in Albany police review board dispute

The Community Police Review Board is so bogged down that it’s falling behind on reviewing police misconduct claims. The Albany taxpayer seems to be...

19.10.2025 4

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Editorial: Israel, Gaza at the crossroads (again)

Palestinians begin to return to their war-ravaged neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Oct. 10. It has been two years and a week since the bloody...

18.10.2025 3

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EDITORIAL: Treat Lake George with care

Native plants found in Lake George during an assessment of sites treated with an herbicide in June 2024.  The revelation that an herbicide can still...

16.10.2025 3

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EDITORIAL: Trump administration offers some universities an offer they’d best refuse

The Trump administration threatens nine universities with the loss of federal aid and other benefits unless they accept certain conservative...

14.10.2025 4

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Editorial: What was ORDA thinking?

Whiteface Mountain, seen from Connery Pond in Lake Placid.  If a private developer illegally and unconstitutionally cut down trees to carve a race...

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Editorial: Mr. Johnson’s shameful stall tactics

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana speaks during a news conference outside his office at the Capitol on Oct. 2. The way things usually...

10.10.2025 3

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Editorial: Bethlehem chase was a dangerous gamble

An image from a Bethlehem police vehicle's dashboard camera showing a high-speed pursuit that started at a WalMart and ended on a soccer field where...

09.10.2025 2

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Editorial: Troy GOP is stuck in the past on videoconferencing

Republicans on the City Council in Troy cite weak excuses in opposing a proposed law change that would allow participation in meetings via...

09.10.2025 2

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Editorial: The ‘war from within’

Credit: Getty Images. For more than 40 minutes on Tuesday, in a speech to hundreds of the nation’s military leaders who’d been urgently summoned...

07.10.2025 4

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Editorial: Justice's blindfold is off

Times Union photo illustration by Ty Stewart. On Wednesday, this editorial board sounded the alarm over President Donald J. Trump's use of compliant...

04.10.2025 10

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Editorial: Make the HALT Act work

Credit: Getty Images. Current and former correction officers recite "The Lord’s Prayer" before starting a news conference to bring attention to...

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Editorial: Trump will own the shutdown

Credit: Getty Images. President Donald J. Trump walks to Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sept. 14. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)...

01.10.2025 5

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Free speech: Use it or lose it

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News, distributed by Cagle Cartoons. We have written this past week about a host of threats to one of the most...

29.09.2025 4

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Editorial: Leashing watchdog journalism

Credit: Getty Images. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at last week's annual Pentagon POW/MIA Recognition Day.  A memo sent last week to military...

27.09.2025 5

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Editorial: Hateful speech is free speech

Times Union photo illustration via Getty Images. U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins is hardly the best-known member of Congress, and his Louisiana district is far...

26.09.2025 3

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Editorial: Freedom, on mute

A demonstrator protests the suspension of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show on Sept. 18 outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Hollywood, where...

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Editorial: The Federal Bureau of Intimidation

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the House Judiciary Committee last week. In mid-January, a veteran FBI agent named Brian Driscoll received a...

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Editorial: $585 million casino bailout is a risky bet

The Resorts World Catskills casino in Sullivan County. If officials in Sullivan County are worried about the future of the local casino, the concern...

20.09.2025 2

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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...

18.09.2025 4

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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...

17.09.2025 4

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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...

14.09.2025 5

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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...

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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 5

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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 4

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