Money to fight heroin will fuel it
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., might as well call for a $100 million crime wave. That will be the effect of his “heroin surge.” Attempts to limit the supply of illegal drugs while demand remains...
View ArticleExpand access to Lyme disease care
The bill discussed in Claire Hughes’ article “Bill shields Lyme doctors,” Dec. 8, was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, improving access to medical care for patients with Lyme disease in New York....
View ArticleIs our health care best we can do?
So Yevgeniy Feyman of the Manhattan Institute (“Proposed health plan too costly,” Dec. 29) thinks we should be “giving markets a chance to work” before we move to a truly universal, broadly-funded...
View ArticleWait on data sharing plan
Buried deep in Gov. Cuomo’s “opportunity agenda” is a plan that, on the surface, sounds like it makes a lot of sense: “Authorize Multi-Agency Data Sharing to Enhance Enforcement Initiatives.” The...
View ArticleLook west for a river plan
Our opinion: A Buffalo area highway is being removed to restore a community’s access to its river. Albany needs to follow this lead and reconnect its downtown to the Hudson River. Supporters of the...
View ArticleLong story short
Our opinons: We weigh in briefly on the governor’s emails, corporate data security, and unnecessary obstacles police face in obtaining child abuse records. On state’s email policy: Just do it, Mr....
View ArticleClicking toward our devolution
David Brooks’ column “Leaving creates such a silence,” March 4, tells us that our instant-access technologies create a problem in the termination of unwanted relationships. I would suggest, however,...
View ArticlePSC delay is inexcusable
The days when a single phone company was the soup-to-nuts solution to how we communicate are long gone. Back then, consumers got their phones from a company that also owned the wires tethering a home...
View ArticleCable competition would only improve service
The Times Union’s recent editorials on communications policy – “PSC delay is inexcusable,” May 1, and “Dropped merger a relief,” April 28 – did not go far enough. Some 30 years ago, deregulation of the...
View ArticleA sound lesson in civics and history
The article “Costly lessons in building costs,” May 31, provided an excellent history lesson. The city of Albany Capital Resources Corp.’s 2011 decision to refuse to provide the Brighter Choice...
View ArticleEase access to adoption records
It is still a fact of life that neither the adoptee nor the birth parent routinely know about the New York State Health Department’s Adoption Registry. Advertising the registry is long overdue, but...
View ArticleStuck in the dial-up age
The frustration of downloading the latest movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime – only to watch a spinning gear icon for minutes on end – is all too common in New York. But what might be merely an annoying...
View ArticleCable customers deserve better
Your recent editorial “Stuck in the dial-up age,” Sept. 22, calls on the state Public Service Commission to move forward with its telecommunications assessment to meet the needs of the state’s...
View ArticleNew York lags nation in use of hospice care
David Leven’s commentary (“Allow terminally ill to end their intolerable suffering,” Oct. 14) focused on physician-assisted death as the only option to address the suffering associated with a terminal...
View ArticleGoal: Broadband reach everywhere
Peter Henner’s commentary, “‘Broadband for all,’ an insult to many,” Oct. 10, gets the story wrong. For years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been setting an example for the rest of the nation by working toward...
View ArticleHow about a little privacy?
If you don’t trust Google with its massive data collection capabilities, you can use another search engine. If you don’t want websites tracking you, you can disable cookies. If you want extra privacy,...
View ArticleMake our nation a happy country
According to the World Happiness Report, countries with the strongest social safety nets tend to have the happiest citizens. Sadly, the United States is not at or near the top of the world’s happiest...
View ArticleBan criminal box on college forms
With a $15-an-hour minimum wage and a paid family leave policy, this year’s budget is undoubtedly a win for millions of New Yorkers. Unfortunately, even though we’ve made progress toward economic...
View ArticleHacking a crime against humanity
The Iranian hacker or hackers who repeatedly gained access to the control system of the Bowman Avenue Dam in Westchester County did more than break United States criminal laws. They showed that the...
View ArticlePalliative, hospice care is better than lethal drug
According to the article “Doctors: Merits in aid in dying,” April 14, Dr. David Grube and Dr. David Pratt made the outrageous claim that “[g]iving a dying patient a drug to end his life can be a form...
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