Leave business of economy alone
Government intervention has made a mess of our economy. With the obsession that grants and tax breaks to businesses will create jobs and bring prosperity, the government overlooks the fact that...
View ArticleMini-pork is still pork
Our opinion: Albany County legislators may be doling out money from their slush fund to deserving causes, but it’s still public money and more oversight and transparency are needed. A little-known...
View ArticleNew hope for N.Y.’s rivers
Millions of federal dollars have long been available in the form of low interest, long-term loans to help municipalities upgrade their aging and inadequate sewage treatment facilities. Yet much of the...
View ArticleDo something about eyesore
I was recently coming home from a trip to Pennsylvania and got off the Thruway at Interstate 787 to go home. I viewed with pleasure the Albany skyline – the Empire State Plaza and several new buildings...
View ArticleKeeping the zombies out
The best ways to deal with abandoned, rundown properties blighting communities is to stop them from getting that way in the first place. While the home mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession...
View ArticleA credit card for ‘pork’
Whatever happened to member items? For decades, these oft-derided legislative grants – popularly known as pork – financed Little League fields, church roofs and lots of other small projects, all with...
View ArticleEditorial: Indentured citizenship
Our opinion: New York creates programs to help young people afford college, but the onerous strings are counterproductive. There is a lot that’s right about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to try to help more...
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