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 that firing Phil Calderone was the right...
View ArticleCommentary: To invest in New York's future, invest in high-impact tutoring...
New York has a crisis, and it's not just a local emergency: Too many of our young people, particularly young people in Black and brown communities, are not reading at age-appropriate levels. According...
View ArticleEditorial: In memoriam
The work done by the Times Union, as the newspaper of record in the Capital Region, has roots that stretch both deep and wide — deep into the past, and wide into other enterprises that may seem to...
View ArticleChurchill: New York suddenly wants to be mean to Elon Musk
COLONIE — Despite a cold and brutal wind, protesters gathered outside Colonie Town Hall on Tuesday evening to express their distaste for Elon Musk. I’d say there were more than 100 protesters in...
View ArticleEditorial: Pass the discovery reforms
Imagine a criminal justice system in which people merely accused of a crime were routinely imprisoned without trial. Where affluent defendants could buy their freedom while people of lesser means,...
View ArticleCommentary: Children with developmental delays aren't getting the services...
Gov. Kathy Hochul calls herself New York’s “first mom governor.” She has promised that “your family is my fight.” But she has a track record of failing to follow through for thousands of our most...
View ArticleCommentary: Protect kids from predatory marketing of junk food on social...
Scroll through any social media feed and you’ll find influencers raving about their favorite meal delivery services, protein powders or snack brands. They share what feels like genuine advice — so...
View ArticleChurchill: Elise Stefanik will keep on trucking (and Trumping)
Elise Stefanik suffered a significant disappointment with the world watching. That couldn’t have been easy. The Republican congresswoman was set to become the ambassador to the United Nations, a job...
View ArticleEditorial: Honesty ought to pay
If you thought that filing your income taxes could lead to you being arrested or even deported, would you pay your taxes? We’d guess not. Yet in its rabid fixation on illegal immigration, the...
View ArticleLeBrun: Let’s tidy up our own yard
It’s impossible to take our minds off the reckless disregard for your life and mine going on in Washington at the moment. But there’s little point in getting agitated over what remains a multiple...
View ArticleCommentary: Last-minute tax tips for the 2024 filing season
As Eugene O’Neill’s accountant once told him, “The tax man cometh!” For all you last-minute filers out there, here are some handy tips and strategies for the 2024 filing year. Every American is...
View ArticleCommentary: A new case for states' rights
As a left-leaning liberal who grew up in the era of Brown v. Board of Education — when Southern governors invoked “States’ Rights!” to avoid integrating their schools — I never imagined that someday I...
View ArticleCommentary: Democrats need to return to being the party of FDR
The Democratic Party is at a crossroads. Republican cuts to education, Medicaid and agriculture programs will deeply harm areas of the nation that now vote Republican. Further, most people already...
View ArticleCommentary: After-school programs help kids thrive. Let's extend their reach.
New York has long recognized the transformative power of after-school programs in fostering students’ academic achievement, social development and overall well-being. However, if the state is to build...
View ArticleEditorial: The wrong way to clean up the budget process
Like the blooming of the tulips in East Capitol Park, it happens every spring in downtown Albany: Leaders of the state Legislature grouse that New York's governor is improperly injecting non-fiscal...
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