All posts tagged "things that matter"
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4.4KOpinion & BlogsColumn | JCOPE ethics panel fails as government watchdogs
"JCOPE? More like JOKE. The panel, unsurprisingly, is appointed by the very politicians that it is supposed to include in its oversight.
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5.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Upstate, Downstate Divide
Splitting New York State in two isn't a new idea, but it may be more complicated -- and potentially damaging -- than...
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4.0KOpinion & BlogsColumn | So-called political crises can lead to abuses of power
An emergency room is appropriately titled. We are always there for something serious and urgent. We don’t call it a “mild illness...
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4.9KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Bernie Sanders is being underestimated — again
Bernie Sanders, the candidate who captured progress hearts in 2016, is more than capable of doing it again in the 2020 presidential...
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7.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | End career politicians by implementing Congressional term limits
The people of the United States will always disagree on how large a role the federal government should have. But they’re much...
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4.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | NY Senate could derail Amazon’s plans to build NYC headquarters
The disagreement on the Amazon deal seems like the first time in a long time that the Legislature has flexed its muscle...
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15.5KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Andrew Cuomo, secret agent, calls to hide mug shots from public
People depend on newsrooms to tell them who is responsible for what. That’s what Gov. Andrew Cuomo now wants to take away...
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4.7KOpinion & BlogsColumn | #MeToo cause could help Kirsten Gillibrand’s Oval Office quest
With one New Yorker already in the White House, another one hopes to replace him. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she is...
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4.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Government shutdowns don’t work. Stop using them.
Republican and Democratic leaders should stop considering the moronic tactic of shutting down the government in the future as a means to...
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4.2KOpinion & BlogsColumn | String along with Mitch McConnell
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims he won’t try to end the shutdown unless he gets the high sign from Trump that...
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4.9KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Defining Bias: The word is an easy go-to for criticizing media
While live-tweeting President Donald Trump’s first Oval Office address to the nation on Jan. 8 and the Democratic rebuttal from Sen. Chuck...
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4.7KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Corruption in the Empire State: Take 2
Like a broken record, columnists Luke Parsnow once again calls for a reckoning on corruption in the state Legislature as we head...
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4.5KOpinion & BlogsColumn | The political perils of posting on social media
From Sen. Kevin Parker to Mayor Denis Langlois to President Donald Trump, government officials should be held accountable for what they say...
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4.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | NY state lawmakers squawk over pay raise proposal
Members of the New York state Legislature have been trying for 20 years to get a pay raise. Now that they have...
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3.8KOpinion & BlogsColumn | GOP stripping incoming WI governor’s power defies voters
The Wisconsin Republicans committed political malpractice boiling down to "The people voted for the guy we didn’t want, so now we have...
