Letter: Clean up words put on T-shirts
The Advocate column on Dilligaf, a T-shirt store in Lake George, could not have been more timely ("T-shirt sales 'fight' adds up to war of words," July 11). I was just talking to another mom about the...
View ArticleRobinson: Trayvon fought prejudice
Justice failed Trayvon Martin the night he was killed. We should be appalled and outraged, but perhaps not surprised, that it failed him again with a verdict setting his killer free.Our society...
View ArticleLetter: Albany should learn from Quebec accident
The tragic oil tanker accident in Quebec should be a warning to Albany, where thousands of gallons of gasoline and crude oil, among other unknown chemicals, travel by tanker car along Interstate 787...
View ArticleTwo schools chartering new course
An important part of New York's past, current and future economic growth is regionally based economic development driven by higher education. Nothing demonstrates this more than the successful...
View ArticleThe Antarctic Ocean deserves to be kept forever wild
The following editorial is from The New York Times:Antarctica is this planet's only continent wholly protected from mining and other economic activity, save tourism — a place where nature, not...
View ArticleEditorial: Our next racial challenge
THE ISSUE:America tries to come to terms with the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin.THE STAKES:How can such senseless confrontations, and deaths, be prevented? The acquittal...
View ArticleDowd: It's tough being single first lady
It is disorienting to watch the French try to be nice.They don't scorn you as much when you try out your pidgin French. France's first unmarried first lady, Valerie Trierweiler, is conducting a global...
View ArticleLetter: Why a revolution is attractive idea
It has been a year since my partner and I purchased land in upstate New York, and we are in the planning stage of building while living in my home in Vermont.Reading and listening to news reports...
View ArticleLetter: Teach children real-life lessons
For 13 years of their lives, children in the United States spend nine months a year — five days a week, six hours a day — in school. With the intense and somewhat frightening international educational...
View ArticleLetter: Invest in, promote high quality care
The Associated Press report "New York braces for health care overhaul," June 23, highlights the need for more primary care physicians.The New York State Academy of Family Physicians has a plan: The...
View ArticleHow to make breaking up easier to do
What's on the verge of being an independent College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has its roots in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Alain Kaloyeros, a new Ph.D. from the University of...
View Article'Summer thing' lived from afar
Bart Giamatti was right: Baseball breaks your heart, and sometimes in ways you don't see coming.Trust me. It's more painful to try keeping up with baseball games through glitch-filled computer feeds...
View ArticleA momentary glimpse of the summer, past and present
Last weekend was one of those very summer weekends. A few days that define summer, carve it in your brain like long lines for ice cream at the SnowMan. We went to the Adirondacks with friends, and...
View ArticleEditorial: Mr. Cuomo's words, deeds
THE ISSUE:The governor takes advantage of some lax campaign finance laws, loopholes and all.THE STAKES:That make his push to change those laws all the harder. A million dollars a month is at once an...
View ArticleWhat's the Senate's problem with filibuster reform?
The following is from an editorial in the Seattle Times:Congress is less popular than lice, colonoscopies and Genghis Khan, according to a brilliant survey by Public Policy Polling earlier this year....
View ArticleProve innocence of innocent
There is reason for the public to shudder at the high number of wrongful convictions coming out of the state's judicial system, even if they are not your hands gripping the steel uprights of a prison...
View ArticleLetter: Tonko misleads his constituency
Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, voted against a bill last month that prohibits abortion after 20 weeks. This means that Rep. Tonko supports abortion even when the baby in the womb can feel pain.Before...
View ArticleBitner: Beware a Bear in the woods
Bear Grylls, the British adventurer who's best known as host of the former Discovery Channel show "Man vs. Wild," is one tough guy.I can tell this without ever having watched the show. Forget the fact...
View ArticleFriedman: A myopic view of immigration
Whenever we go into political drift as a country, optimists often quote Winston Churchill's line that Americans will always do the right thing, after they've "exhausted all other possibilities."I...
View ArticleLetter: RPI's Jackson is an asset to region
How ironic — and disturbing — it is that, on the same day that you run an important story on the critical need to attract young girls into STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) careers, you...
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