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A quarter-century ago, 65 percent of Americans thought interracial marriage was unacceptable for themselves or for other people. Yet in the span of a generation, as intermarriage has become more common and the United States has grown more racially di ...
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There's an old joke about putting money in your pocket with your left hand, removing it with your right and then counting the transaction as savings. That anecdote illustrates the fallacy of President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for 2013, w ...
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Tired of taking a political beating over a soon-to-expire cut in payroll taxes, House Republican leaders announced last week that they're willing to keep the lower rate in place through the end of 2012 with no strings attached. That means the temp ...
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It has been a month since Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that he would draft his own system to root out bad teachers if the state Education Department and teachers unions didn't make a deal on substantive reform. He offered a one-month deadline. Time's up. ...
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Amsterdam City Controller Ronald Wierzbicki walked into quite a mess when he took over in January as the city's chief financial officer. In fact, it's so bad that City Hall doesn't even know how much money it has to get through the fiscal year, nor c ...
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Just as scientists are announcing a breakthrough in their understanding of how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain, robbing its sufferers of memories and cognitive functioning, the Obama administration is proposing a dramatic increase in federal fu ...
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Broadalbin-Perth Central School District Superintendent Stephen Tomlinson wrote an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week (the entire letter was published in Thursday's Recorder and is available online at www.recordernews.com). In it, the superin ...
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There aren't many places on the face of the Earth more dependent on the weather than we are in the North Country, and, like the rest of those places, there's precious little we can do about it. So much of this region's prosperity and security rely ...
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A common phrase we often hear coming from the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors is "We have to do something," which is often spoken right before county legislators do just the opposite. This is especially true when it comes to restructuring co ...
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The last time environmentalists fought freight rail service from North Creek to Tahawus, there was a war on. Early in the 1940s, the federal government sought to put an industrial rail spur in to Tahawus to mine ilmenite, a strategic mineral used i ...
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Years from now, students in college-level public-relations classes will be offered the "Susan G. Komen for the Cure fiasco" for analysis. Komen's short-lived decision to cut off grants to Planned Parenthood is a study in how to alienate supporters. ...
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President Obama is right to put more pressure on colleges and universities as well as the states to make a college education more affordable. A nation that keeps telling its children they need more than a high school diploma to succeed in this incr ...
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The latest fight waged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is over implementing a teacher evaluation process so New York state can improve its public education system. It's something that was supposed to be put in place two years ago, but continued battles with the ...
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A new federal study found that Americans are getting screened for three major cancers -- breast, cervical and colorectal -- at rates far below national targets. The shortfall is especially high among adults who lack insurance or regular access to a d ...
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At a Jan. 23 meeting of the Broadalbin-Perth Central School District Board of Education, members were reviewing a draft budget as they prepare to craft a 2012-13 spending plan that will be placed before voters in the spring. A reporter covering the m ...
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Now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plan for 2012-13 has been reviewed and kicked about for several days, it's time for legislators to start giving it fair consideration. The governor presented the $132.5 billion budget -- essentially flat -- as a "s ...
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By a surprisingly unanimous vote, the Supreme Court last week ruled that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a tracking device to a car or other vehicle. The decision is a welcome affirmation of the constitutional right to privacy in an era ...
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Judicial activism got a slap in the face earlier this month when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Texas federal court had exceeded its brief by drawing new election districts that ignored the state Legislature's own plan -- a finding w ...
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Amsterdam officials are discovering what we've suspected for a while -- that the city's financial situation is a total mess. It appears to be so bad that the mayor, controller and Common Council can't start developing next year's budget because they ...
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Expecting New York lawmakers to come up with a fair and reasonable plan to redraw legislative districts remains too much to ask. Have you seen the latest proposal expected to be released this week? Exactly. It is no surprise that the task appears t ...
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We're more than a little baffled by the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors' inability to decide if a so-called health insurance "trust" should be dissolved. The fact that supervisors can't even determine if the consortium exists or whether there' ...
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Top-notch geologists have reached the following chilling conclusions about the potential impact of upstate natural gas drilling on New York City's water supply: First, that the drilling method known as high-volume hydrofracking could trigger small ...
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Yes, America has a lot of serious stuff on its plate. Yes, it's as polarized as ever. We all know there's still a war going on in Afghanistan. We're well aware that a lot of people didn't think the Iraq war was a good idea. And we realize that the fu ...
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With the delivery of his state budget this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued his effort to put the "real" into real reform. It's hard to find fault with this notion, unless you're in the path of those reforms. It's also hard to argue that the gove ...
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Amsterdam Mayor Ann Thane is calling together a handful of local political leaders to promote greater cooperation and, hopefully, set a course for a better tomorrow for the city of Amsterdam. As we mentioned after the mayor delivered her annual st ...
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