Letter: Abundant support helps save Historic Cherry Hill
Never has Historic Cherry Hill had as extraordinary a 10-day period as it has since the Times Union published "Mansion may be history," July 21. That piece started a community-based, full-court press...
View ArticleLetter: Cobleskill offers students opportunity to succeed
"One and done at Cobleskill," July 19, was an unfair headline to State University of New York at Cobleskill, a fine segment of the SUNY system. For every under-prepared student entering college or...
View ArticleLetter: Treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo is shameful
Hopefully, the Times Union's use of alliteration ("Court order for 4 force-feedings," July 18) in the front-page headline helped draw readers into the article focusing on the force-feeding form of...
View ArticleSmith: Promising steps invite a bold Albany
When was the last time you heard any initiative in Albany be described as "bold"? That is, aside from rhetorical riffs of self-congratulation by politicians.Lay aside hyperbole. What's a "bold" step...
View ArticleLetter: Gitmo prisoners denied their rights by U.S.
The Times Union's front page coverage of Elliott Adams' hunger protest against the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay was a necessary reminder that there are individuals compelled to put...
View ArticleLetter: City neighborhood will be wiped out
I am not sure how tearing down and rebuilding our Park South neighborhood is considered accomplishing "great" things ("$110M transformation," July 24). The reasons I bought my house in this...
View ArticleLetter: Letter-writers should keep up the good work
Two excellent letters were recently published: Emily Halpin ("Teach children real-life lessons," July 18) and Beth Dare ("Why New York needs a revolution," July 18).Ms. Halpin's opinion of what our...
View ArticleLetter: Counsel's demeanor doesn't match story
I write to echo the positive comments printed at the end of the front-page story ("New sex case ends career of Silver aide," July 25) about Assembly Democratic Majority Counsel William Collins, based...
View ArticleLetter: No point in telling golf outing story
I have been reluctant to comment on Paul Grondahl's column concerning his recent experience golfing at Capital Hills Golf Course ("Golf course rage leaves a good walk spoiled," July 3).I have always...
View ArticleLetter: Picture of 5-year-old on life support appalling
I don't believe I've ever written a letter to the editor of any newspaper, but today I'm making an exception. The Times Union's decision to print the picture of 5-year-old Gary Carpenter III on life...
View ArticleCommentary: Back to the river, Albany
Almost every medium-size American city has a convention center of some kind. But they rarely generate enough economic activity on their own to revitalize downtowns. Albany needs to make itself a more...
View ArticleEditorial: The trials of Mr. Bruno
THE ISSUE:A federal appeals court refuses to drop the corruption case against the former Senate leader from the Capital Region.THE STAKES:Guilty? Or not guilty? Justice must be pursued. Joseph L....
View ArticleEditorial: Long story short
Pay up or park itTo those of you who owe more than $10,000 to New York and learned last week that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is coming for your driver's license, we say: Be glad you don't live in Louisiana.New...
View ArticleSeiler: GOP boss takes on HillTV
How does a Republican National Committee chairman fill the time between an epic presidential beatdown and next year's midterm elections?Fund-raising? Reaching out to Latinos? Plowing through all 20 of...
View ArticleDowd: Obama tees up the ball for Hillary
President Barack Obama proved himself a great segue artist Friday, as he smoothly glided from his previously unassailable position on the matter of surveillance to his new unassailable position on the...
View ArticleParker: The mommy wars, nuances and all
The media-created mommy wars haven't just jumped the shark and entered the realm of "Sharknado." Where women once debated ways to balance family-and-career — a hyphenated oxymoron if ever there was...
View ArticleViewpoint: Obama's well within his rights to snub Putin
The following is from editorial in the Los Angeles Times:If it's a refusal to engage with Russia, that would be bad. But more likely, it's political Kabuki theater.If President Obama's decision to...
View ArticleNotable Quotes Of The Week
"I'm fighting for my life. I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will."— Alex Rodriguez,on his suspension from baseball"Let us hope that this is what the sale signifies: The...
View ArticleLetter: Self-defense was not Zimmerman
Of course, it was self-defense, but not by George Zimmerman.Let's forget blackness, racism, neighborhood watches and location for a moment and simplify the story.Let's say a person spots someone he...
View ArticleLetter: Use of photograph was truly sloppy
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures available of Abraham Lincoln, arguably our greatest president ever. That being the case, why would the Times Union put a picture of Daniel Day-Lewis...
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