Things That Matter (Luke Parsnow) Archives

Column | Cuomo will never win a popularity contest, yet he keeps winning gubernatorial elections

It’s been just seven months since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sailed to a third term as chief executive of the Empire State. And he’s...

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Column | Never Forget: Sacrifices made by the Greatest Generation on D-Day led to 75 years of world peace

In the news headlines of June 6, 2019, was an American president’s state visit to London, an agreement between the United States and Japan...

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Column | It’s time for Trump to release his tax returns

In the last few weeks, we’ve heard President Donald Trump say repeatedly that he is “the most transparent president in history.” The...

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Column | NY should take the slow road on marijuana legalization

In February 2017, soon after states like neighboring Massachusetts and Vermont had legalized recreational marijuana, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reiterated his...

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Column | Protect workers; amend the WARN Act

No one would ever want to show up to work one day, then find out that their place of employment had suddenly closed its doors and that...

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Column | State law should strip funds from corrupt politicians who abused their power

It was four years ago this month when New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested along with his son...

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Column | Squabbling over community grid proposal will only delay I-81 problem

The New York state Department of Transportation has released its long-awaited draft environmental impact statement that named the community grid as its...

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Column | Party leaderships want to discourage challengers, protect incumbents

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from an absolute nobody to one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year after defeating...

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Column | Georgia’s proposed journalism ethics bill would interfere with government accountability

For quite some time now, many people in power have launched seemingly never-ending attacks on the media, from denouncing anonymous sources, to...

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Column | Mass shootings are not as far away as we are led to believe

Maybe our failure to curb mass shootings in the U.S. is because we rely on that “it can’t happen here” sentiment, even though it keeps...

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Column | Bipartisan Band-Aid: Parties must compromise on health care

If representatives make a health care plan with bipartisan support, maybe the very issue that established our modern political division can be...

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Column | Sears’ Sad Legacy: It treated its employees too well

The demise of retail giant Sears after it filed for bankruptcy in October 2018 is an example of what happens when you...

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Column | 3 Men and a State Budget: Albany’s March Madness

This year, a whole bunch of policies were lined up for the New York State Budget process, but that’s not the way...