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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...

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Editorial: Tariff madness

Editorial: Tariff madness

Credit: Getty Images. President Donald J. Trump this past week imposed sweeping tariffs built on false premises, based on false numbers and justified...

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Editorial: A careless approach to care

Editorial: A careless approach to care

Credit: Getty Images. Last year, when Public Partnerships LLC was chosen to administer New York’s home care services program, this editorial board...

05.04.2025 4

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Editorial: Flawed mask ban doesn't belong in the budget, or anywhere else

Editorial: Flawed mask ban doesn't belong in the budget, or anywhere else

A ban on wearing masks in public was repealed during the pandemic. Gov. Kathy Hochul is still pushing to ban wearing masks in public and, with...

04.04.2025 10

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Editorial: Death by thousands of cuts

Editorial: Death by thousands of cuts

Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services stand in line to enter the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building in Washington, D.C., on April 1...

04.04.2025 4

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Editorial: A Supreme Court ruling worth celebrating

Editorial: A Supreme Court ruling worth celebrating

U.S. Supreme Court rules "ghost gun" kits can be regulated. Might last week’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding make-your-own gun kits...

02.04.2025 7

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Editorial: Trump v. law firms

Editorial: Trump v. law firms

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena in Washington on January...

01.04.2025 6

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Editorial: An attack on America’s voting rights

Editorial: An attack on America’s voting rights

Credit: Getty Images. If a politician promised that if elected, he’d make sure people have to jump through bureaucratic hoops to vote from now on...

31.03.2025 7

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Editorial: Reckless incompetence

Credit: Getty Images. There’s only one thing more outrageous than the fact that some of the highest officials in government committed a flagrant...

29.03.2025 3

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Editorial: Empty plates in the land of plenty

Editorial: Empty plates in the land of plenty

Credit: Getty Images. Medicaid. Social Security. Housing aid. Threats from the Trump administration to shrink America’s social safety net raise many...

29.03.2025 3

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Editorial: The wrong way to treat friends

Editorial: The wrong way to treat friends

Homes are illuminated after sunset in Tasiilaq, Greenland. Editor's note: As this editorial was going to press, the White House announced that Vice...

27.03.2025 6

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Editorial: Consequences for prison strikers

Striking correction officers and their supporters stage a protest along Route 9W near Greene Correctional Facility state prison in Coxsackie on Feb....

26.03.2025 4

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Editorial: No parking, nohow

Editorial: No parking, nohow

Credit: Getty Images. This might be news to Beroro Efekoro, but even though he’s an Albany County legislator, he’s still just a regular guy....

26.03.2025 3

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Editorial: An attack on education

Editorial: An attack on education

Protestors participate in a "study-in" in front of the U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., on March 21, 2025. With a stroke of...

24.03.2025 3

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Editorial: Pity these poor lawmakers

Times Union photo illustration by Ty Stewart. Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay, center, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, right, during...

23.03.2025 10

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Editorial: Accountability in the courts

Editorial: Accountability in the courts

Credit: Getty Images. People with the power to take away other people’s liberty should be open and accountable for the decisions they make. That’s...

21.03.2025 3

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Editorial: Proposal to remake Hudson's government is deeply flawed

Editorial: Proposal to remake Hudson's government is deeply flawed

Warren Street in Hudson. In Hudson, a small but influential group of residents is pushing a proposal that would strip away the mayor's power, install...

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Editorial: Mr. Trump defies the law

Editorial: Mr. Trump defies the law

Credit: Getty Images. President Donald J. Trump’s defiance of two court orders barring him from deporting people without due process has thrust the...

19.03.2025 10

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Editorial: A measure of hope for abuse victims

Credit: Getty Images. Before discussing the latest twist in the path to accountability for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, let’s recall some...

19.03.2025 4

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Editorial: A pandemic’s lessons

Signs reminding people about social distancing and wearing face masks are seen at a mall in Monterey Park, Calif., on June 14, 2021. This week marks a...

17.03.2025 10

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Editorial: Shut it down, if you must

Credit: Getty Images. Normally, we would not endorse a shutdown of the U.S. government. But nothing about this moment in American history is normal....

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Editorial: Addiction treatment hits the road

Credit: Getty Images. Methadone is the gold standard for the treatment of opioid addiction because of its ability to reduce cravings and block the...

14.03.2025 3

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Editorial: The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is an attack on free speech

Mahmoud Khalil Credit: Getty Images. Last month, Vice President JD Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference and upbraided European leaders...

14.03.2025 9

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Editorial: CDPAP transition is a looming care crisis

Credit: Getty Images. In less than four weeks, tens of thousands of New Yorkers could find themselves cut off from the help they depend on to for some...

12.03.2025 10

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Editorial: CHIPS must not fall

A chips clean room at Albany Nanotech is seen in August 2022, after U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer made an announcement about the impact of the CHIPS &...

11.03.2025 9

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Editorial: Taxpayers deserve transparency

Albany's Central Warehouse on December 3, 2024. In today’s edition of “If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times”: When you’re...

08.03.2025 9

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Editorial: A great day for Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday. The session...

06.03.2025 5

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Editorial: Breathe life into Harriman

Senator Patricia Fahy calls for the redevelopment of a portion of the Harriman State Office Campus on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, in Albany. Building...

06.03.2025 10

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Editorial: Killing the watchdogs

President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Feb. 26, 2025. What does President Donald Trump have planned that he...

04.03.2025 10

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Editorial: An Rx for hospital care

The exterior of Albany Medical Center Hospital on Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024, in Albany. At last, the state Department of Health’s August report on...

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Editorial: Murky waters in Bethlehem

Filtered tap water flows from Bethlehem resident Jessica Dillon’s kitchen faucet on Jan. 9, 2025. Dillon had a water filtration system installed to...

02.03.2025 3

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Editorial: A misstep from District Attorney Lee Kindlon

Albany County District Attorney Lee Kindlon talks to the media on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Albany. Lee Kindlon, two months into his term as the...

01.03.2025 3

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Editorial: Courts must uphold New York’s Climate Superfund Act

21 states full of greenhouse gas polluters sue New York over its latest climate change-related policy. It is, to put it mildly, disappointing that 21...

28.02.2025 4

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Editorial: The real IRS danger

The headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) The Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency...

26.02.2025 4

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Editorial: A double victory for transparency

The New York Court of Appeals on Eagle Street in Albany. New York’s most impactful response to the national reckoning that followed the 2020 murder...

26.02.2025 10

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Editorial: NY’s prisons are in crisis

Striking correction officers and their supporters stage a protest along Route 9W near Greene Correctional Facility state prison last week in...

25.02.2025 4

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Jochnowitz: Did Trump violate his settlement with N.Y.?

President Donald J. Trump on the campaign trail in Las Vegas in October. Long before Donald Trump used his presidential power to make himself...

24.02.2025 8

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Editorial: Punishing free speech

 Waves roll in to East Beach, in Galveston, Texas, from the body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico. An important principle in the First...

22.02.2025 3

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Editorial: On Ukraine, Trump blames the victim

Roman Karpishka of Latham holds a Ukrainian flag during rally at Cohoes City Hall in March 2022 — just weeks after the Russian invasion began. In a...

21.02.2025 4

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Editorial: A reckless conclusion in the case of Sabeeh Alalkawi

Sabeeh Alalkawi’s Honda Civic slides down Hoosick Street after being struck by a Troy police SUV driven by Officer Justin Byrnes on Feb. 22, 2023....

21.02.2025 3

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Editorial: What’s the holdup on Saratoga Springs police review board?

Saratoga Springs’ efforts to respond to the state’s call to shore up the community’s trust in its police officers is withering on the vine. ...

19.02.2025 2

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Editorial: Eric Adams needs to go

New York City Mayor Eric Adams in January 2024, following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address at the Capitol in Albany. New York Mayor...

17.02.2025 4

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Editorial: Rein in top state pay

The state Board of Regents at a 2023 meeting in Huxley Theatre at the State Museum in Albany. Its members were recently obliged to defend a large...

16.02.2025 4

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Editorial: Erasing transgender Americans

(Getty Images) “The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American...

16.02.2025 5

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Editorial: The war on 'DEI' comes to West Point

Graduating cadets stand in formation at the United States Military Academy at West Pointin 2013. Then-Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel delivered the...

14.02.2025 10

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Editorial: A cynical attempt to delay an election

A voter in Wilton casts his ballot in the 21st Congressional District primary on June 26, 2018. Partisanship is destructive when it insists that any...

13.02.2025 3

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Editorial: Sounds good, Mr. McCoy, but let's hear more

The College of Saint Rose campus in Albany on the last day of classes, June 21, 2024. County Executive Daniel McCoy speaks last month in Albany. ...

13.02.2025 6

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Editorial: When a cop breaks the law, we're all victims

Dion A. Johnson at his graduation from Albany Police Academy at the Palace Theatre in 2019. He moved to the Saugerties force the following year....

11.02.2025 10

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Editorial: Mr. Trump’s Gaza fantasy

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in...

11.02.2025 10

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Editorial: New York takes a stand on reproductive rights

Credit: Getty Images. As the U.S. Supreme Court grew increasingly conservative with the appointments of justices under President Donald J. Trump in...

09.02.2025 3

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