Editorial: N.Y.'s Medicaid debacle
THE ISSUE:The state waited nine months to inform Medicaid recipients that their private health records may have been breached.THE STAKES:Quite an explanation is in order. Nice to know, isn't it New...
View ArticleVoters need to return fire against NRA
I am neither happy nor proud that my predictions and desires made in this newspaper on June 7, 2012, about the outcome of the prosecution of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin were...
View ArticleSmith: Uneasiness as renewable energy grows
My cousins and uncles have been raising corn and soybeans in the Midwest for years. The rich loam and moderate climate are ideal for the kind of large-scale agriculture that has dramatically boosted...
View ArticleLetter: Creation of curriculum was a flawed process
After hearing that Shenendehowa High School received a public relations award for the work of its Health Advisory Council, I decided to share my experience of the flawed process that determined the...
View ArticleLetter: Aquarium could add to rich history of Albany
I just read Akum Norder's idea to promote Albany as a historical destination like Philadelphia or Boston ("Observation Deck," July 8).A good idea, but don't forget another big reason for day trips to...
View ArticleLetter: Undemocratic rule stymies progress
The U.S. Senate has its own rules concerning what democracy can be defined as. It insists on 60 votes before it can do any business of the people. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blew it...
View ArticleLetter: Hobby Lobby reminds us of our religious heritage
Hurray for Hobby Lobby for reminding us all on July Fourth of the faith of many of our Founding Fathers and earliest presidents.Bob Blackmon in his letter ("Hobby store ad was disrespectful," July 11)...
View ArticleNotable Quotes Of The Week
"Yes."— Eliot Spitzer,on whether he and his wife, Silda,are still a couple, despite living apart"It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous...
View ArticleSeiler: Judging a bomber by a cover
At a long-ago gathering of the Wyoming Press Association, a veteran photographer presenting a slide show of his work clicked to a black-and-white close-up of a handsome, middle-aged man laughing so...
View ArticleCommentary: N.Y.'s failed history lesson
New York's history is one of its greatest assets. We need to draw on it more extensively to benefit the people of the state.Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the "I Love NY" tourism office in the Department of...
View ArticleViewpoint: Rolling Stone isn't endorsing Tsarnaev
The following is from an editorial in The New York Times:Maybe the hysteria about Rolling Stone's August issue is heat-wave induced. That's the only charitable explanation for the stampede of critics...
View ArticleCommentary: Zimmerman case more significant than O.J.
I believe the George Zimmerman verdict will be of greater racial and civil significance for blacks than the O.J. Simpson trial.First of all, there is no epidemic of old black ex-football player movie...
View ArticleParker: The ultimate oxymoron: It's only sex
Redemption is in the air, we keep hearing. Americans don't care about a person's sex life because, well, they have one, too, and, hey, we all have weeds in our garden.Indeed we do, but not all sins...
View ArticleDowd: Two rats on trial for what they do
Boston It was a subtle distinction, for a psychopath."I loved her," Stevie "The Rifleman" Flemmi said of his one-time girlfriend, Debbie Davis, a sparkling blond Farrah Fawcett lookalike, "but I was...
View ArticleLetter: Rise in carbon dioxide threatens civilization
The letter by Malcolm J. Sherman ("Models don't show climate emergency," July 16) claims that global temperatures have not risen since 1998, and that this is not predicted by models of climate change...
View ArticleLetter: Give U.S. citizens jobs before illegal immigrants
The damage to the rule of law that would come from giving citizenship to 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants is reason enough not to pass amnesty, but consider the practical effects it would...
View ArticleEditorial: Uneasy academic divorce
THE ISSUE:The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is being separated from the University at Albany.THE STAKES:UAlbany could lose more than its marquee college. With not so much as a...
View ArticleSchool lunches should be healthy
The article "An all-consuming subject," July 16, was an excellent overview of the problem of childhood obesity and deserves a much longer treatment or series of articles. The photos published in the...
View ArticleLaw needs to protect gays from housing discrimination
The following is from an editorial in the Los Angeles Times:The federal Fair Housing Act was passed 45 years ago, just one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Initially the law...
View Article'Disabled' is nothing but a word
This past June, my daughter Caroline's team of eighth-grade teachers did something amazing. They led a discussion about different kinds of intelligence, explaining that having a brain that works...
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