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Guest Commentary

APA soon to be tested

The Adirondack Park is one of the world’s natural treasures. It is not only the largest state or national park in the lower 48 states, but a rare example of how people and wild nature can peacefully coexist. The Adirondack Park Agency was created almost 50 years ago to help maintain this ...

Break free from Fox News

Democrats and Republicans convene every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, and to prepare a platform of principles and goals. - The new Democratic Party Platform - The new Democratic Party Platform is available at ...

Stefanik guilty of stolen valor

It seemed absurd that a sitting member of Congress would demand journalists take her seriously while berating a political rival for the “scandal” she manufactured last week. But U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, needed an outlet for her feigned indignation over what she called ...

And still they persisted

Bottles flying through the air. Men spitting on and slapping the women. Pushing and shoving mothers and their children. Men beating them, yelling terrible insults at working women, nurses, doctors, academic women in their robes, the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority from Howard University, ...

Public left in dark on selection of new SUNY chancellor

To Dr. Merryl H. Tisch, chair, SUNY Board of Trustees: Dear Dr. Tisch: The New York Coalition for Open Government is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to addressing transparency in government issues. The fact that the SUNY Board of Trustees have selected a new ...

Bye, bye fracking, hello renewables

In a July 25, 2020 Buffalo News article Jeff Dewart, Wright Ellis and Jim Simon, elected supervisors in the New York towns of Somerset, Cambria and Yates, expressed alarm over an authority tug-of-war pitting the towns use of “Not in my backyard” polices to control land use against the ...