Seiler: How to game the voting
From: [redacted], counsel, Attorney General's officeTo: [redacted], Executive ChamberHey [redacted], hope all is well. Our guys took another pass through the language of the gaming-expansion...
View ArticleDowd: And now, words from the Oracle
Washington When you're trapped in a city with House Republican gargoyles who don't understand math or history, much less reality, sometimes you crave a dose of grandfatherly wisdom.Speaker John...
View ArticleEditorial: Long Story Short
On the right trackWhat looked like a compromise in a rail-vs.-trail debate in the Adirondacks fell apart last week, but in the end a town made the right decision.North Elba for years had been looking...
View ArticleNotable Quotes Of The Week
"The fact that we haven't had any homicides is good fortune. One is coming, though. One is absolutely coming.— Albany Police Chief Steve Krokoff "...it is not necessary that we talk about these issues...
View ArticleCommentary: Timing is everything, even in elections
On Sept. 10, Eliot Spitzer, one of the most powerful state attorney generals in memory, whose name once frequently came up when talk turned to potential presidents, lost the Democratic primary for New...
View ArticleFriedman: Same old, same old in Egypt about to change
If you fell asleep 30 years ago, woke up last week and quickly scanned the headlines in Iran and Egypt, you could be excused for saying, "I didn't miss a thing." The military and the Muslim...
View ArticleLetter: Contamination hurts urban health
Your analysis of the need for a need environmental bond act is timely and important. I disagree, however, with your view on bond act funding for brownfields.The Environmental Restoration Program,...
View ArticleLetter: Consequences for disruptive teens
The article "Now trending: You on #Yourbusted," Sept. 14, describes a "party" in an empty Stephentown house that did $20,000 in damage. Some partygoers were tweeted to attend, and some tweeted their...
View ArticleLetter: Why is shooter sensationalized?
Here we go again: Some lunatic shoots up a bunch of innocent people and, before the end of the day, his face is filling every television and computer screen in America, his name is broadcast across...
View ArticleBrodsky: Cuomo's 2014 plan: Cut taxes
Chose one of the following as the heart of next years' Re-elect Andrew Cuomo campaign:A) What New York's economy needs is another round of spending cuts and tax cuts for business and high income...
View ArticleViewpoint: Starbucks opts to reserve the double shots for its coffee
Starbucks is standing its grounds against gun owners.In May, the coffee chain banned smoking not only in their shops, but within 25 feet outside them. It's not hard to imagine that second-hand bullets...
View ArticleCommentary: Keep it wild in the 'dacks
In September or October, the Adirondack Park Agency will make one of its most important decisions in a generation. It will recommend to Gov. Andrew Cuomo a classification for the newly acquired Essex...
View ArticleEditorial: A distasteful use of power
THE ISSUE:Concerned about a business name, NYRA and the state abruptly pull a vendor's permit.THE STAKES:Where's the due process here? We're not fans of the name that Brandon Snooks and Andrea...
View ArticleTime to move ahead with the Adirondack Rail Trail
In 1996, the state allowed train advocates a five-year opportunity to develop rail services, through private investment, along an inactive 90-mile rail line through the Adirondacks from Old Forge to...
View ArticleLabels miss realities of classrooms
Scott Waldman's informative and sensitive piece about a teacher referred to as "Jen" ("Developing" label disheartens teacher," Sept. 13) made me think about my career teaching educationally and...
View ArticleEditorial: Welcome to Opacity, N.Y.
THE ISSUE:The Legislature fights to keep its members' outside business secret.THE STAKES:A more transparent Legislature would be a more honest one. State lawmakers may well have the state constitution...
View ArticleLetter: Israel knows how to lobby support
Letter-writer Hiram Cohen recently suggested ("Israel a proven strategic ally," Sept. 17) that it could be anti-Semitic to suggest that the Israeli government has a strong influence on Congress...
View ArticleLetter: Help others also achieve success
Can we just end this silly debate over which narrative is true: The narrative in which liberals take your money and give it to someone else or the one in which "Joe Businessman" makes good by dint of...
View ArticleLetter: The 'haves' own the government
In the midst of Michael Brown's privilege-laden defense of property for the idle rich ("'Haves worked for their rewards," Sept. 13), there are misconceptions about the dichotomy of "effort" and "work"...
View ArticleLetter: Streamling care for senior citizens
The article on caregivers' needs ("Caregiver help is a growing concern," Sept. 17) states: "But [John] Coffey wonders how they will determine when it is better for [his mother] to have additional care...
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