Commentary

Gun control is suicide prevention
Commentary, Opinion
By AMY PAULIN 
Sep 23, 2025
September is Suicide Prevention Month. What many people don’t realize is that firearms are the leading cause of suicide in the United States. More tha...
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Washington pays for homeless crisis
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 22, 2025
The State of Washington spent $5 billion on homelessness prevention programs over the last 12 years, but there has been little measurable impact so fa...
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After Kirk killing, a new fight over what we can say
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Sep 21, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — The killing of Charlie Kirk has unleashed a torrent of debate in certain circles about the First Amendment and free speech, and some of...
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NY contracts are intentionally expensive
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 19, 2025
A transportation agency run by the states of New York and New Jersey is paying minority-owned businesses 10% more to do the same work as other vendors...
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Fear, dread and how America got to this point
Commentary, Opinion
By J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Sep 19, 2025
A week before Charlie Kirk’s murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal events that have shaped this American century. We all lead...
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Health Matters: Vaccinate, Part 2
Commentary, Opinion
By ATHENA GODET-CALOGERAS 
Sep 19, 2025
“Vaccines have saved more human lives than any other medical invention in history.” — World Health Organization Words carry meaning, and oftentimes, h...
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Commentary, Opinion
By DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 18, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump is not as popular as he claims. But neither is he as unpopular as his opponents might like to think. That’s th...
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Gov. Hochul mainstreams Mamdani
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 18, 2025
Just because an ideology has failed repeatedly doesn’t mean it won’t attract new adherents. Witness what’s happening in New York. On Sunday, New York ...
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Going down an ever darker road
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Sep 18, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — Elise Stefanik first met Charlie Kirk in 2015. At the time, she was a newly elected New York congresswoman famous, to the extent that s...
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Mahomes can’t evade New York’s licensing blitz
Commentary, Opinion
By CAM MACDONALD 
Sep 17, 2025
ALBANY — The National Football League kicked off its new season this month and fans tuning in to television broadcasts this fall may see their favorit...
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Veterans’ hospital equipment is missing
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 17, 2025
The Veterans Health Administration has lost an estimated 5% of its reusable medical equipment worth at least $211 million — including exam tables, com...
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Talk to — not over — each other
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Sep 17, 2025
I can’t believe what I’m seeing with my own eyes, hearing with my own ears. Some in this country, the United States of America, are celebrating the as...
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We need new tools to assess sex offender risks
Commentary, Opinion
By PAMELA J. HUNTER Syracuse.com 
Sep 16, 2025
SYRACUSE (TNS) — As a mother and as a New York state Assembly member, nothing weighs on me more heavily than the responsibility we share to keep our c...
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Students’ reading skills are in crisis
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 15, 2025
Ask a high school student about the last book they read, and you may be disappointed to learn they never cracked open "The Catcher in the Rye" or trud...
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Don’t let a generation lose faith in free speech
Commentary, Opinion
By MARY ELLEN KLAS Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 15, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — The First Amendment is in a sorry state, especially on college campuses. A survey of students released last Tuesday from the Foundati...
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A system that keeps failing to put taxpayers first
Commentary, Opinion
By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Sep 15, 2025
The latest on Medicaid spending in New York comes from the state comptroller, who came out with an audit that “found close to $1.2 billion in managed ...
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Veterans Affairs’ spa days return
Commentary, Opinion
Sep 14, 2025
As chancellor of the Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy, Judith Dawson’s job was to teach other VA employees the proper way to hire contractors for ...
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