Opinion

Time for NY Republicans to rally behind Afghan refugee
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Oct 30, 2025
ALBANY — What was the point of arresting Ali Faqirzada? If you've followed the case, you know there really wasn't one. Faqirzada, 31, an Afghan refuge...
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NBA scandal was predictable
Commentary, Opinion
Oct 29, 2025
Everyone saw this coming except the NBA. It seemed obvious to us: An industry built on winning money instead of earning it will attract those willing ...
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Can interruptions be opportunities?
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Oct 29, 2025
I recently came across a writing by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that has aligned with some things I’ve been considering lately. He wrote...
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Looking at the last year of proper local elections
Commentary, Opinion
By ASSEMBLYMAN WILL BARCLAY 
Oct 28, 2025
There are many essential components to the democratic process, but the most important is the one we do each November: vote in our general elections. I...
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Kristi Noem buys two luxury jets
Commentary, Opinion
Oct 28, 2025
Air traffic controllers across the country are working without pay during the government shutdown as flight delays cause huge issues for travelers. Ho...
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The real cost of America’s reliance on trade with China
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRISTIAN B. TEETER Los Angeles Times 
Oct 28, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For more than two decades, the U.S.-China trading relationship has been at the center of globalization’s story: low-cost goods for...
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Scandal risks credibility of sports industry
Commentary, Opinion
Oct 27, 2025
What were the odds when the sports industry married the gaming industry that the union would eventually produce a scandal? And now it has arrived. The...
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GOP must address its young, racist chatters
Commentary, Opinion
By KAITLYN BUSS The Detroit News 
Oct 27, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — Chats from young Republicans revealed recently by Politico expose a dark streak of the conservative movement that should bother anyone...
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Can America afford to reopen the government?
Commentary, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Oct 24, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — s...
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Guest Comment: Protect the Adirondacks supports Prop 1
Commentary, Opinion
By CLAUDIA BRAYMER and CHRISTOPHER AMATO 
Oct 24, 2025
Protect the Adirondacks supports Proposal 1 to amend   Article 14, Section 1,  the “forever wild” clause of the New York State Constitution, to author...
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Guest Comment: ‘Youth Have Seen Enough Tobacco’
Commentary, Opinion
By JONATHAN CHAFFEE 
Oct 23, 2025
“Youth Have Seen Enough Tobacco” was the slogan for Seen Enough Tobacco Day, an annual day of action Oct. 13 in New York and led by youth members of R...
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