All posts tagged "things that matter"
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2.4KOpinion & BlogsTrump Infrastructure Plan Offers A Road To Nowhere
During his presidential campaign, overhauling infrastructure became one of Donald Trump’s most popular and bipartisan messages. Last week, the president finally released...
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3.3KOpinion & BlogsThe Safety Of Our Schools Begins With Our Students
Rash of imitation threats following Parkland tragedy means we need to better teach our youth
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3.2KOpinion & BlogsMemo-Gate Conjures Modern-Day McCarthyism
On Feb. 9, 1950, a relatively unknown Republican senator from Wisconsin managed to leap to the front of a post-war paranoia movement...
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3.0KOpinion & BlogsTwo Central New York Politicians Harbor Albany Ambitions
Two months ago, they were both brought together in Albany to talk politics: two longtime Central New York politicians with two different...
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4.8KOpinion & BlogsThruway Signs Came With Good Intentions, but Wasted Money
Decision to take down controversial signs ends a feud that never needed to happen
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3.1KOpinion & BlogsLawmakers Still Get Paid During Shutdowns They Create
We would really like to think of Congress as the best of us. As the upholders of law and order, we expect...
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2.7KOpinion & BlogsObama Has Been Out of Office For a Year — or Has He?
Former president’s wake in national policy, White House politics continues
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2.9KOpinion & BlogsDemocrats Definitely Lost The Shutdown Game
You only claim victory if you come out of it with your demands met. Sen. Schumer didn’t
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2.4KOpinion & BlogsTrump’s Drill Dream Will Shaft U.S. Continental Shelf
Within the same week, two significantly different proposals for new offshore energy production were unveiled by two different governments in two different...
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2.6KOpinion & BlogsLawmakers Must Confront New York’s Flee Circus
In a recent interview with CNYCentral, New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, “We have young people coming back.” Well, sort of....
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3.2KOpinion & BlogsTanks But No Tanks
Railing Against Using The Adirondacks As A Junkyard
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3.3KOpinion & BlogsFox News’ Influence on Trump is Alarming
If the president fires Robert Mueller, it won’t be because of advice from associates or advisers in the White House
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2.5KOpinion & BlogsMore Retrials For Corrupt Pols On 2018’s Docket
Another new year means a new legislative session in the state capitol in Albany, a new fight over the state budget and...
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2.4KOpinion & BlogsHistory Does Repeat Yet 2017 Stands On Its Own
I believe it’s a natural nugget of our humanity to use historical context in order to help explain or analyze events of...
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2.7KOpinion & BlogsThe Media’s Agenda: To Tell the Truth
Last summer I struck up a conversation with a stranger who eventually asked what I did for a living. A journalist, I...
