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A solar installment along the Mohawk River in Schenectady County. This editorial board continues to support New York's Climate Leadership and...
Credit: Getty Images. A measure with strong bipartisan statewide support is kept off the table year after year by special interests. No, it’s not...
Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI director, arrives to speak during an inauguration event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025, in...
Barbed wire surrounds Marcy Correctional Facility state prison on Route 88 in Marcy, outside Utica. Advocacy groups and journalists — from the...
Credit: Getty Images. Hours after he swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," President Donald J....
Credit: Getty Images. If you searched online this past week for articles about President Donald J. Trump’s decision to sever ties with the World...
Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) The reprieves...
A boat heads down the Hudson River on July 10, 2024. The city of Albany and many other upstate municipalities pay to have toxins dumped in upstate...
New York’s guardianship program getting a look from the state Attorney General is great, but it also needs the insight of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the...
Berne Town Supervisor Dennis Palow and former town board member and Clerk Anita Clayton at town hall in Berne in October. Palow pitched Clayton to be...
The Albany skyline and Half Moon weathervane atop the former Delaware & Hudson Building, now SUNY Plaza, is seen from above Frontage Road on April 9,...
Playground equipment is ready for children at Faith’s House, a daycare center serving workers at Saratoga Race Course that opened in 2021. Q:...
The people of the state of New York have long entrusted the integrity of their elections to a two-party system of oversight. The Schoharie Country...
Credit: Getty Images. Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that breakfast and lunch should be made available at no cost to all students in New York,...
A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills on Jan. 8 as wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds moved...
Credit: Getty Images. New year, new reason to repeat this mantra of government transparency: If you take taxpayers' money, you're accountable to the...
Flowers are left as a memorial Jan. 2, 2025, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, the day after an attack in the French Quarter. At least 14...
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland addresses members of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on November 18, 2024, in...
State Attorney General Letitia James has removed her office from all matters connected to the death of Robert Brooks after he was beaten by...
Entrance to Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, Oneida County, is seen Dec. 19, 2024. Please don't dismiss the corrections officers who pummeled and...
Supporters of Donald Trump gather outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 06, 2021. Rioters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers were set...
Credit: Getty Images. In the enormous barrel of fossil fuel industry profits, $3 billion is a relative drop. For New York and its taxpayers,...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords on February 3, 2016 in London. ...
Milton Arroyo, 58, was fired from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida in 2017 after he allegedly sent explicit messages to students at a...
Time for the state to tweak its formula for funding public schools. New York spends more per pupil on public education than any other state. You...
A large pothole in the middle of Northern Boulevard in Albany is seen Jan. 20, 2023. See? Check. Click? Check. Fix? Well, hang on, we're working on...
Truck traffic from the SA Dunn landfill moves along Partition Street in Rensselaer on July 1, 2021. The only thing more disappointing and...
President-elect Donald J. Trump is suing the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer. In President-elect Donald J. Trump's brain, "election...
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks after a meeting with the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Washington,...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, arrives for a meeting at the Hart Senate Office...
Credit: Getty Images. The idea that wholly unqualified people might be getting jobs with New York through nefarious means is troubling enough. That...
Credit: Getty Images. A lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills to a Texas...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not the right choice to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Getty Images) There's a reason the arrival of...
Police work at the scene where the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot outside a hotel on December 4, 2024, in Manhattan. The cold-...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. Last week, without public notice or discussion, Democrats on the state's Public Campaign Finance...
Credit: Getty Images. A month ago, this editorial board called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign legislation backed by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli...
The College of Saint Rose campus and surrounding buildings, looking east down Western Ave. in Albany, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The future of...
The bobsled and luge run at Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid in February 2005, the 25th anniversary of the 1980 Winter...
President-elect Donald Trump is seen during his meeting with Prince William, Prince of Wales at the Embassy of the United Kingdom's Residence on...
Warren Street in Hudson. Should the city of Hudson strip the mayor of power, hire a city manager and eliminate more than half of its Common Council...
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. President-elect Donald J. Trump was very clear in his Sunday interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press”...
Shoppers stroll on Lark Street in Albany during a 2020 holiday market event. Long ago in a gentler time, the biggest problem on Lark Street might...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. It’s not often we are surprised and delighted by the actions of public officials when it comes to the...
Credit: Getty Images. If Felicia Pitts Davis wants to live out her religious faith in the public sphere, let her become a preacher. But if she...
Credit: Getty Images. New York’s new ethics and lobbying commission wants to be sure that when someone signs off on a mandatory form, they’re...
Credit: Getty Images. Every child in the United States has a right to a public education. Every one. That’s straightforward, right? If so, why is...
Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting on Capitol Hill on December 2, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The more we learn about Pete Hegseth, the more we believe...
President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Nov. 29. The best thing that can be said about President Joe Biden’s decision...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeffrey Scherer. New York has received more bad news on the energy front: The New York Independent System...
Credit: Getty Images. With centuries of persecution to inform them, our nation’s founders knew the perils that came from the unwholesome union of...