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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...

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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

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

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...

10.06.2025 5

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Editorial: End this atrocity now

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

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...

06.06.2025 7

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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...

05.06.2025 4

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Editorial: Trump's partisan pardons

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...

04.06.2025 4

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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

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...

03.06.2025 30

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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...

31.05.2025 20

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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...

26.05.2025 2

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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...

17.05.2025 3

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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...

14.05.2025 8

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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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Editorial: Algorithms to the rescue

Interim U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III concludes an April 28 news conference to announce the arrest of an...

07.05.2025 10

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Editorial: Flawed petitions, flawed law

Credit: Getty Images. One of the hallmarks of our democracy is that voters choose who represents them. So when judges are asked to thwart the...

07.05.2025 4

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Editorial: The fight over Dunn isn't done

A sign advocating for the closure of the Dunn C&D Landfill in Rensselaer, April 11, 2025. Residents in Rensselaer said loudly and clearly that they...

02.05.2025 5

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Editorial: What's at stake at '60 Minutes'

Credit: Getty Images. There is something darkly ironic about the fact that a stage version of “Good Night, and Good Luck” is one of Broadway’s...

02.05.2025 9

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Editorial: The eye-for-an-eye president

Donald Trump holds up a news story about New York Attorney General Letitia James on Jan. 11, 2024, following closing arguments at his civil fraud...

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Editorial: Hands off the Fed

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. (Eric Baradat, AFP via Getty Images) For now, President Donald J. Trump has backed off his threats to...

30.04.2025 2

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Editorial: In Ukraine, 'very bad timing'

Rescue workers search for people under rubble of an apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile strike Thursday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Americans...

27.04.2025 2

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Editorial: Francis leaves a legacy of love

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, known since March 2013 as Pope Francis, was notably distinct from his papal...

25.04.2025 5

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Editorial: Pete Hegseth must go

When this editorial board reviews its assessment of U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, it is difficult not to start with one simple message: We...

25.04.2025 4

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Editorial: Harvard schools Mr. Trump

Credit: Getty Images. For a while, it seemed likely that Donald Trump just might succeed in bringing some of America’s most prestigious institutions...

23.04.2025 10

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Editorial: Murder at Mid-State

There is little utility or even justice in comparing homicides, but it is a hard thing to avoid in the cases of Robert L. Brooks and Messiah Nantwi,...

22.04.2025 10

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Editorial: The shredding of our rights

Credit: Getty Images. More than 6,000 people living legally in the United States woke up one recent morning to discover they were dead. They were...

22.04.2025 20

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Editorial: Open gates? Hardly.

Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration has moved to release some state prison inmates who are within 110 days of their release...

20.04.2025 9

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Editorial: The price of hubris

Credit: Getty Images. A few weeks ago, this editorial board roasted members of the state Legislature who were gnashing their teeth over limits placed...

19.04.2025 4

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Editorial: Ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court

President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14. Kilmar Abrego Garcia came to the United...

17.04.2025 5

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Editorial: Get the lead out

Credit: Getty Images. Elevated levels of lead have been found in Albany's West Hill neighborhood. New York has long employed a cruel and ineffective...

17.04.2025 4

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Editorial: The wrong way to clean up the budget process

Times Union photo illustration. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie talking to the media after Gov. Kathy Hochul presented her 2026 executive budget...

15.04.2025 4

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Editorial: Honesty ought to pay

Credit: Getty Images. If you thought that filing your income taxes could lead to you being arrested or even deported, would you pay your taxes? ...

14.04.2025 4

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Editorial: Pass the discovery reforms

Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. Imagine a criminal justice system in which people merely accused of a crime were routinely imprisoned...

12.04.2025 8

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Editorial: Airport report makes poor case for Phil Calderone's firing

Eight months after the unfair and untimely dismissal of its former CEO, the Albany County Airport Authority board is still trying to convince everyone...

10.04.2025 3

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Editorial: Squirrelly contrition

Mark Longo with Peanut, a squirrel that was seized in a DEC raid at Longo's home in October 2024. The state Department of Environmental Conservation...

10.04.2025 3

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Editorial: ‘Disappeared’ in America

Credit: Getty Images. The Trump administration has an arrangement with El Salvador to place deported undocumented immigrants and even American...

08.04.2025 8

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