Commentary: Tesla showroom would be good for Colonie, regardless of politics
You might think that a plan to demolish a vacant building and replace it with an electric vehicle showroom would garner universal support, especially when the project would not only bring well-paying...
View ArticleCommentary: To protect kids online, New York has more work to do
We have both spent our careers advocating for children’s health, safety and education. And we've watched with alarm as tech companies have increasingly used our children as guinea pigs for targeted...
View ArticleEditorial: The eye-for-an-eye president
How’s this for bad political theater: A hand-picked agency head of President Donald J. Trump’s sends a criminal referral to Donald J. Trump’s attorney general alleging various crimes by one of Donald...
View ArticleChurchill: No baseball stadium? Sheehan says she isn't to blame.
I recently wrote a column about developer Tom Burke and his defunct dream to build a baseball stadium north of downtown Albany at the site of the Central Warehouse. Burke showed me renderings and...
View ArticleEditorial: The fight over Dunn isn't done
Residents in Rensselaer said loudly and clearly that they didn't want the S.A. Dunn landfill to continue operating in the city, but the state Department of Environmental Conservation didn't listen. In...
View ArticleCommentary: Medicaid cuts would be felt deeply in New York — and not just by...
Congress is considering dramatic reductions to federal Medicaid funding that will significantly affect our state and its neighbors. If enacted, these changes — including a "per capita cap" on Medicaid...
View ArticleCommentary: Beauty Justice Act would harm small businesses without improving...
I’m a proud New Yorker and have built my business in the state, which has provided me with significant opportunities to pursue my passion and connect with diverse individuals from all walks of life....
View ArticleCommentary: Act now to shield New Yorkers' reproductive health data
Celeste Burgess, the Nebraska teenager found guilty of violating her state’s abortion laws, never expected that her private Facebook messages with her mother would be used as evidence in court. The...
View ArticleEditorial: What's at stake at '60 Minutes'
There is something darkly ironic about the fact that a stage version of “Good Night, and Good Luck” is one of Broadway’s hottest tickets in the same month that CBS and its parent company are embroiled...
View ArticleChurchill: Troy’s deputy mayor is gay and he supports Donald Trump
Seamus Donnelly is Troy’s deputy mayor and a lifelong city resident. He’s also gay. Donnelly, 38, came out when he was 25 and is now married. In recent years, he organized the city’s 50th...
View ArticleEditorial: Due process denied
Hundreds of immigrants are deported without a chance to plead their case. Children as young as two years old who are American citizens are held incommunicado and then sent out of the country before...
View ArticleCommentary: Digital dragnet searches are a threat to Americans' free speech...
Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in New York and detained in Louisiana, where an immigration judge ruled him deportable for leading student protests. He is one of nine protesters the federal government...
View ArticleSeiler: Pete Hegseth for pope. Quickly!
After President Donald J. Trump jokingly last week told a reporter that becoming pope would be his “number-one choice,” U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham posted on X that he was “excited” by the idea: “I would...
View ArticleChurchill: Silly high school sports bill suggests civilizational decline
State lawmakers often can’t leave well enough alone. They insist on fixing problems that don’t exist. For one recent example, I direct your attention to a proposal to divide public and private high...
View ArticleCommentary: New York deserves a birthday party
April 19 was Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts. On that day in 1775, patriot forces fought British army forces in Lexington and Concord in what turned out to be the inaugural battles of the American...
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