Letter: A technical path to future careers
Assemblyman Ron Kim's commentary ("Teaching character is a key lesson," Nov. 14) spoke of instilling a love for learning with purpose instead of encouraging our students to just be great test-takers....
View ArticleMideast peace needs right words
As Secretary of State John Kerry tries to revive a moribund "peace process," which the U.S. mediated for more than two decades, the prospects for a just resolution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict...
View ArticleEditorial: It's only fair, Democrats
THE ISSUE:The state Democratic Party resists a call to disclose its lobbying activities.THE STAKES:When the line between politics and lobbying is blurred, why not err on the side of clarity? When the...
View ArticleIt's still a matter of life and death for judges in Alabama
In nearly all of the 32 states that permit capital punishment, a jury makes the final decision on whether a defendant will live or die. Not so in Alabama, where elected judges may override a jury...
View ArticleDowd: All in the political families
And I thought my family Thanksgivings were rough.My sister, who loved W. and worked on his 2000 convention, made it clear that I was not welcome in her guest room when I was writing about the phony...
View ArticlePage: Great men aren't here forever
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of my earliest memories and remarkable in its clarity: I was 4 years old, too young to be in kindergarten, at home with my mother who, in all...
View ArticleLetter: Kudos for story on home births
Reading "Safe birth at home," Nov. 20, about the rise of home births put a smile on my face. We chose home birth for our third and fourth children, 23 and 25 years ago. There was no insurance coverage...
View ArticleLetter: Iran's fanaticism a threat to Jews
I could not disagree more with Thomas L. Friedman's commentary analysis on Iran ("Just end cold war with Iran," Nov. 14).Iran has invested a large percentage of its GDP over the last 15 years in...
View ArticleLetter: Opposition to policies, not race
Many liberals erroneously believe that the underlying reason anybody opposes President Barack Obama is simply because of his race. But they fail to acknowledge that the philosophical divisions in this...
View ArticleLetter: We can mitigate while we adapt
A particularly insidious phenomenon today is the one-issue website with a political agenda. Such is the International Climate Science Coalition. This is the brainchild of Tom Harris, a mechanical...
View ArticleEditorial: Mr. Cuomo's overreaction
THE ISSUE:The state comptroller warns of soaring overtime, and the governor bristles.THE STAKES:This ought to be about good governance, not political image. Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's report this week...
View ArticleLetter: Home births carry unnecessary risks
In the article "Safe birth at home," Nov. 20, the dangers of home births were lost and not clearly addressed.Everyone wants the safest possible birthing experience for soon-to-be moms. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleFriedman: Let Kerry continue with Iran
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The Middle East once again proves that if you eat right, exercise regularly and don't smoke, you'll live long enough to see everything, including a day when the Jews...
View ArticleLetter: Kennedy helped define our hope
Politics, and presidential politics in particular, is by and large a curious mixture of perception and reality. Never was this fact more in evidence (in retrospect) than in the presidency of John F....
View ArticleLetter: Tracing the name reveals meaning
Albany attorney Dennis Schlenker was reported in the Law Beat column as saying, in a cross-examination, that the name "Mohawk" means "drunken Indian" ("What's in a name? A chance to offend," Nov. 6)....
View ArticleLife went on, but sorrow remained
As recounted in Candace Millard's "Destiny of the Republic," a newspaper reporter lamented upon the passing of a fallen president that future citizens would never know that he was a man "who read...
View ArticleLetter: Veteran thankful for generosity
I am a Vietnam veteran and I just wanted to say "thank you" to all the businesses and people who went out of their way to show and to thank all us veterans for our service to our country. I was very...
View ArticleEditorial: Our Duty Today
On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, we look back at how the editorial pages of the Times Union and its former sister paper, The Knickerbocker News, dealt with the...
View ArticleEditorial: A Gallant Man
A gallant man is dead.It is a cruel paradox that a life devoted to — and risked for — America should be snuffed out summarily in the bright noonday sunlight of an American city.Cruel paradox, that is,...
View ArticleTexas uses end run to reduce abortions
The following is from a Los Angeles Times editorial:It's disappointing that the Supreme Court denied a request to temporarily block an onerous new abortion law in Texas from taking effect while a...
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