Commentary: Challenges remain to protecting New York City's watershed
As New York City scales back its program to purchase lands in the Catskill and Delaware watersheds that supply unfiltered drinking water to half the state’s population, it’s an opportunity to note how...
View ArticleCommentary: Pairing reason with empathy best path for future organ transplants
The desire to aid others can drive humans to do much good in the world, mobilizing bystanders to run into burning buildings in response to cries for help or to rescue drowning children from...
View ArticleEditorial: What Cuomo 'didn't recall'
Just as a stopped clock is correct twice a day, it is possible for a bitterly partisan congressional undertaking to turn up nuggets of long-hidden truth. That appears to be the case with the House...
View ArticleCommentary: Absentee ballot ruling conflicts with Constitution
On Oct. 25, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held invalid a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, if they arrive later than...
View ArticleChurchill: Peanut the Squirrel didn't need to die
Mark Longo first spotted the squirrel in lower Manhattan. The animal’s mother had been hit by a car, and it was alone. At that moment, Longo made a decision that would change the course of his life:...
View ArticleCommentary: Think your vote doesn't matter in New York? Think again.
I put it off for as long as I could, but once I’d graduated from college it became clear I was going to have to bite the bullet. As a student in New York, I’d been allowed to continue listing my...
View ArticleCommentary: Laughter may be medicine, but listening is what will heal our...
I saw stand-up comic Paula Poundstone at the Troy Music Hall on a recent Friday night. In the midst of this chaotic election season, spending a couple of hours doubled over in laughter was a balm to...
View ArticleEditorial: Rising above the fear
If you’re unusually nervous, jittery, tense, spooked, afraid, terrified or just simply exhausted at the thought of this election, here’s a possibly comforting thought: You’re not alone. And the...
View ArticleCommentary: In this election, protecting democracy is the most conservative...
Growing up in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, I witnessed firsthand how fragile democracy can be. In 1973, a U.S.-backed military coup brought Augusto Pinochet to power, removing Salvador...
View ArticleEditorial: This climate act’s getting old
It’s getting to feel like everybody talks about the climate, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Back when a version of that quip appeared in an editorial in the Hartford (Connecticut) Courant...
View ArticleCommentary: Vague language on ballot puts New York abortion rights at risk
Tomorrow, voters in nearly a dozen states from Florida to South Dakota will approve or reject ballot initiatives related to abortion. But the biggest surprise on Election Night could be in New York —...
View ArticleCommentary: Military service deserves our respect, not disparagement
As the 2024 presidential election season concludes, and at a time when the fires of war and conflict are raging throughout the world, I’ve been thinking of a lunch I had 16 years ago. I was dining...
View ArticleEditorial: Election Day
We’re often told that voting is our responsibility, our duty as citizens. We talk less often about voting as a privilege. Filling out a ballot is a gesture of self-determination: We decide who shapes...
View ArticleCommentary: We're overlooking New York's medical cannabis program
Three years in, New York’s adult-use cannabis program has faced a series of setbacks, primarily due to mismanagement of the rollout, which allowed illegal dispensaries to thrive at the expense of...
View ArticleChurchill: Killing of Peanut shows state's warped priorities
ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is, as many of you will know, the agency that allowed a massive dump for construction debris to open next to a school in Rensselaer. When...
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