Throw ’em out? No, not all
From today’s editorials, our endorsements in three Senate districts. ________________________ If we’d written an editorial listing our state Senate endorsements a year ago, it would probably be quite...
View ArticleComptroller: Wilson
From today’s editorials: Our endorsement in the comptroller’s race. _________________ Tom DiNapoli took over a deeply troubled state comptroller’s office in 2007 and took steps to restore its...
View ArticleAwaiting Mr. Cuomo
From today’s editorials: Our endorsement for governor. Andrew Cuomo has been governor-in-waiting for so long now, while first one predecessor and then another failed at the job, that Tuesday’s election...
View ArticleIt’s up to you
From today’s editorials: It’s Election Day. It’s the voters’ voices that matter most of all. State government is at a crisis point, marred by dysfunction and undermined by corruption. There’s a...
View ArticleRepublicans need a new game
Today’s editorial: Before talking about taking back state government, Republicans need to take back their party from the fringe right. __________________ Contrary to the list of culprits he offered in...
View ArticleMore mayhem in the Senate
From today’s editorials: Three elections remain too close to call. New Yorkers ought to know which party is in charge. The urgency of Andrew Cuomo’s agenda as governor-in-waiting is underscored already...
View ArticleAnother chance for the Senate GOP
Today’s editorial: Have two years in the wilderness taught Senate Republicans the error of their ways? And will the Senate Democrats get the message that they, too, have some reforming to do?...
View ArticleRemember him?
And here we thought we were done with Pedro Espada. He was voted out of the state Senate, after all, and heading for bigger trouble. Yet there he was just last week, coming in for even more criticism....
View ArticleDon’t make state Senate any bigger
Our opinion: Are the Republicans intent on adding another seat? If they can get away with that, they can get away with almost anything. Just how desperate are the Republicans to keep their narrow...
View ArticleProcess matters, Mr.Cuomo
Our opinion: New Yorkers like their governor. But they want transparency, too. Why does that rate a dismissive response from the governor? Let’s parse the numbers. Governor Cuomo is as popular as ever,...
View ArticleAdkins for judge
From today’s editorials: Our endorsement. Albany County voters have an unenviable choice to make in Tuesday’s election for Surrogate’s Court judge. They must weigh the challenger’s lack of significant...
View ArticleThrow ’em out? No, not all
From today’s editorials, our endorsements in three Senate districts. ________________________ If we’d written an editorial listing our state Senate endorsements a year ago, it would probably be quite...
View ArticleAbsurd for GOP to contest convention
Forcing a contested convention in July to prevent presidential front-runner Donald Trump from getting his party’s nomination would only prove the GOP establishment does not support its voters, writes...
View ArticleSanders preparing to bern Democrats?
It’s irresponsible and self-defeating for the Bernie Sanders campaign to be talking about the possibility of a contested convention, given such events compromise the emerging nominee’s standing in his...
View ArticleDems on the edge of political cliff
Just as the Republican Party has moved too far to the right and damaged its appeal to moderates and swing voters, Democrats are moving too far to the left by embracing the extreme ideology of Bernie...
View ArticleU.S. vulnerable to Trump’s tyranny
We’re approaching democracy’s end times, according to a passage from Plato’s Republic that argues democracy’s excesses produce a self-indulgent citizenry that predicates “feeling, emotion and...
View ArticleThe many, many, many lies of Donald Trump (Video)
Fact-checking operations have documented scores of lies by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump; Politifact, for instance, lists 133 instances of completely false statements (46 of them with a...
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