Cuomo’s promise clearly broken
For a man who ran for office on a platform of transparency in state government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has failed to deliver. Big time. When the Moreland Commission’s digging into corruption got...
View ArticleA volunteer career after retirement
My husband and I were fortunate to have had public-sector jobs with pensions that could not be clawed back by a troubled industry and to have been raised by parents who grew up during the Depression...
View ArticleSchool must be respectful of vote
The votes have been counted. The election result is final. Albany voters rejected the city school board’s proposition to reconstruct Albany High School at a cost of $196 million. There is a strong...
View ArticleState only moves when it is sued
The agreement reached by the state and the New York Civil Liberties Union to reduce the number of inmates sentenced to solitary confinement is a major step in bringing state policy into accord with...
View ArticleGOP support for Trump no surprise
People are scratching their heads. How can so many Republicans support Donald Trump? Where does this base, this angry base, come from? Despite lots of ink spilled on this issue, three points dominate:...
View ArticleSchedule school re-vote after troubled election
The moral and ethical question “Does the end justify the means?” can be applied to the recent outcome of the Albany High School referendum. The problems being experienced by voters when trying to cast...
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