Letter: 'Common sense' defies fracking logic
Letter: 'Common sense' defies fracking logic When someone asks you to rely on common sense, they're usually about to make a statement refuted by science. Such is the case with the Dec. 3 letter...
View ArticleLetter: Environment needs support
Letter: Environment needs support I was struck by the juxtaposition of two recent articles, "Speed urged in frack decision," and "Big ice melt is latest bad sign," Nov. 29.The first article quoted...
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Inching toward a deal
Inching toward a deal Times Union Copyright 2012 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:46 p.m., Friday, December 7,...
View ArticleLetter: Middle class earned benefits
Letter: Middle class earned benefits It is unconscionable that calls are being made to cut benefits for the middle class while billions of dollars have been and are being spent to prop up corporations...
View ArticleLetter: In Albany, it's politics as usual
Letter: In Albany, it's politics as usual "Jennings will be mayor as long as he wants to be," says Albert Paolucci, Democratic committeeman, in his Nov. 21 letter "Albany benefits from experience."By...
View ArticleLetter: We're stuck with lax lawmakers
Letter: We're stuck with lax lawmakers Isn't it a shame the deadline for the "fiscal cliff" wasn't in the first week of October?Had "the most unproductive Congress in modern history" faced this...
View ArticleLetter: Park is better without benches
Letter: Park is better without benches I live a block away from Albany's Townsend Park, where the benches were removed ("Park's issues take a front seat," Nov. 23). I believe the park was improved by...
View ArticleLetter: Cut OT, expand E-ZPass system
Letter: Cut OT, expand E-ZPass system "Thruway overtime offers road of gold," Dec. 2, laments the Thruway Authority offering generous overtime to hundreds of its employees while saying it is in dire...
View ArticleLetter: Cemeteries need to relax rules
Letter: Cemeteries need to relax rules It has been more than a year since the Times Union reported the regulations change at Our Lady of Angels Cemetery in Colonie ("At a cemetery, the regulations can...
View ArticleLetter: Open the ballots in 46th District
Letter: Open the ballots in 46th District As a resident of the 46th state Senate District, I was offended by the circumstances surrounding the district's creation, gerrymandering for the sole purpose...
View ArticleEditorial: Long story short
Editorial: Long story short The shame of New York festers in tiny prison cells from one end of the state to the other. Too many inmates are wasting away in the barbaric confinement of "The Box," the...
View ArticleEditorial: Sorry, your vote is no good here
Editorial: Sorry, your vote is no good here THE ISSUE:A needless legal requirement lets absentee ballots be voided. THE STAKES:Democracy is supposed to belong to voters, not candidates and lawyers. How...
View ArticleSmith: The tribes of New York
Smith: The tribes of New York An outsider's first lesson about New York politics is that it's a lot more complicated here than what Tip O'Neill might have led you to believe. Over in Massachusetts,...
View ArticleLetter: Domestic woes, guns are lethal
Letter: Domestic woes, guns are lethal The murder of Kasandra Perkins at the hands of professional football player Jovan Belcher has brought out the usual group of gun rights and gun-control advocates...
View ArticleParker: Obama the guiltiest of all
Parker: Obama the guiltiest of all Americans are justified in feeling numbed by the car alarm of Washington politics.Every now and then we get a reprieve from the noise. Something breaks through: a sex...
View ArticleFriedman: The full Israeli experience
Friedman: The full Israeli experience TEL AVIV, Israel — These were the main regional news headlines in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday: "Home Front Command simulates missile strike during drill."...
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Credit where it isn't due
Credit where it isn't due Times Union Copyright 2012 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:13 p.m., Saturday, December...
View ArticleDowd: GOP still celebrating a funeral
Dowd: GOP still celebrating a funeral WASHINGTON — My college roommates and I used to grocery shop and cook together. The only food we seemed to agree on was corn, so we ate a lot of corn.My mom would...
View ArticleON THE RECORD: Notable quotes of the week
ON THE RECORD: Notable quotes of the week "One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart."— Dave Brubeck,who died last week at 91"It's just a...
View ArticleReveal campaign cash cache
Reveal campaign cash cache The following is from an editorial in The Washington Post:The campaign is over, but the broken campaign finance system remains. The flood of money into politics in the past...
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