ethics

Make your health care wishes known
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
VICKIE HEDLUND 
Apr 16, 2023
Sunday, April 16, was National Health Care Decisions Day, a day to inspire, educate and empower the public and medical providers about the importance ...
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Indictment affirms an essential principle of justice
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Apr 03, 2023
Count me among those who are skeptical about indicting former president Donald Trump on charges that he tried to cover up an affair by paying off a po...
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Debate on bail holds up New York budget talks
News, NY State News
JOSHUA SOLOMON Times Union, Albany 
Mar 31, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — This year’s debate on proposed changes to the state’s bail laws are again at the center of annual budget negotiations, a subject that i...
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China not credible as peacemaker
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 23, 2023
Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...
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Crackdown proposed for illegal pot shops in New York
Business, News, NY State News, ...
MICHAEL HILL Associated Press 
Mar 23, 2023
ALBANY — New York authorities would be given expanded power to shut down illegal pot shops and levy fines of up to $200,000 under legislation proposed...
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Biden and Democrats’ chronic crime problem
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Mar 15, 2023
What’s one good clue that President Joe Biden really intends to run for reelection in 2024? He is trying to distance himself from the Democratic Party...
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In Albany, the fear of too much democracy
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Mar 08, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — A top concern of most Albany lawmakers is job security. They don’t want to make it easy for voters to choose somebody else. That helps ...
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Santos under investigation by House Ethics panel
News, NY State News
LISA MASCARO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press 
Mar 02, 2023
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is launching an investigation into embattled Republican Rep. George Santos, the New York...
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Don’t rewrite books
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 28, 2023
First, they came for Roald Dahl. Anyone who thought the politically correct rewriting would stop at the irreverent author of such children’s classics ...
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On debt limit, time to end business as usual
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
PAUL WINFREE Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2023
President Joe Biden has called for an increase in the debt ceiling. To avoid another fight with Congress on the issue ahead of the 2024 elections, he ...
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Unbridled restraint in NY schools
New York, Opinion
Feb 03, 2023
Protecting children from the overuse of last-resort behavioral interventions starts with collecting better data. For educators and other school staffe...
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