Letter: Community key to policing success
Letter: Community key to policing success Saratoga bottles its famous water and ships it all over the world. If there were anything here in Albany that I'd like to bottle and send everywhere, it would...
View ArticleMarcus: Sadder, wiser in realpolitik world
Marcus: Sadder, wiser in realpolitik world The reviewing stands are up, the buildings festooned with bunting. But on the eve of President Barack Obama's second inauguration, Washington's mood feels...
View ArticleBitner: Curtains for all my resolutions
Bitner: Curtains for all my resolutions Somebody call Oprah. I have a confession: I don't make New Year's resolutions.Statistics justify my position. Apparently, 40 percent of people fail their New...
View ArticleLetter: Keep Gillibrand's good work going
Letter: Keep Gillibrand's good work going U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand deserves a resounding thank you for stepping up again on behalf of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and all it does for us....
View ArticleLetter: Please don't limit our civil liberties
Letter: Please don't limit our civil liberties I was dismayed to find the letter from Wilma Jozwiak ("Second Amendment a growing menace," Dec. 29). After rereading in disbelief, I want to clarify for...
View ArticleLetter: Preserve the state's most historic entities
Letter: Preserve the state's most historic entities As a native Albanian, former educator, community volunteer and board member of Historic Cherry Hill, I applaud "Historic sites make unified funding...
View ArticleLetter: Children learn by good examples
Letter: Children learn by good examples Congratulation to James Nealon and his letter ("The problem is our violent nature," Jan. 10). It was filled with truth regarding our violent nature. Our world is...
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View ArticleLetter: Cuomo can be leader on climate change
Letter: Cuomo can be leader on climate change If Gov. Andrew Cuomo is to be a national leader on climate change, he must call on Congress to pass strong legislation that encourages an economy-wide...
View ArticleEditorial: Long story short
Editorial: Long story short THE ISSUE:THE STAKES: For all the flaws in New York's new gun laws — notably the hasty way they were passed and a provision that's nothing less than a declaration of war on...
View ArticleON THE RECORD: Notable quotes of the week
ON THE RECORD: Notable quotes of the week "Has it been a lot of work? Not really. It's only work if you'd rather be doing something else."— The late Pauline Phillips,on her career as "Dear Abby""When I...
View ArticleEditorial: A New York teaching moment
Editorial: A New York teaching moment THE ISSUE:The will of voters prevails, barely, in Cecilia Tkaczyk's election to the state Senate.THE STAKES:Will the Legislature and the governor make future...
View ArticleLetter: Stop the cycle of dependence
Letter: Stop the cycle of dependence In my youth, the concepts of respecting and listening to my elders was drilled into my head, and I practice them to this day. My older brother recommends...
View ArticleLetter: Power plants take time to build
Letter: Power plants take time to build With regards to "State power plants aging," Jan. 7, a few important points should be noted:After nearly a decade of not being on the books, New York in 2011...
View ArticleLetter: Foreign nations slaughter citizens
Letter: Foreign nations slaughter citizens On Jan. 9, I watched Gov. Andrew Cuomo's third State of the State in its entirety with particular interest in his gun control notions. Given his speaking...
View ArticleLetter: State gun law was long overdue
Letter: State gun law was long overdue Your editorial ("New York shoots from the hip," Jan. 16) suggested that state government should have kept studying the gun issue before passing a law.We strongly...
View ArticleDowd: More than just carrots and sticks
Dowd: More than just carrots and sticks WASHINGTON — When he was a young henchman for his father in Albany, Andrew Cuomo gave intensity a bad name.Now that he is New York's governor himself, Cuomo...
View ArticleParker: Sorry, that's no contrition
Parker: Sorry, that's no contrition To the world-weary, Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah was just one more in a series.The process of public contrition is by now yawningly familiar: Comfortably...
View ArticleMarcus: Sotomayor exhibits humanity
Marcus: Sotomayor exhibits humanity To grasp the remarkable nature of Sonia Sotomayor's new autobiography, consider this: The justice pokes fun at her own unfashionable underwear.The scene occurs in a...
View ArticleLetter: Gun owners list is unwarranted
Letter: Gun owners list is unwarranted I can't believe the stupidity of anyone who would want the public to know who has guns and where they live ("Furor rises over gun permit map," Jan. 16)....
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