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OPINION: Even-Year Election Law Has More Holes Than Swiss Cheese, Judge Says
New York’s politically motivated and unconstitutional even-year election law has been struck down by an Onondaga County state Supreme Court justice. For anyone who recalls the immediate pushback from local officials and constitutional-law scholars when the law was first passed, this ruling should come as no great surprise. The law was painted as a way […]
OPINION: Voting is fundamental to democracy
About 150 million Americans will vote in [the Nov. 5] elections, making their choices for positions ranging from president to school board. They will be participating in the most-basic expression of citizenship. Voting is fundamental to democracy. But nearly 100 million voting-age citizens will sit out the election. That should concern us. We celebrate voting
OPINION: Voters say economy, immigration remain the top election issues
A recent Emerson poll of likely voters from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 once again showed that the top issue in the 2024 election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is the economy (jobs, inflation, taxes) at 41 percent — followed by immigration at 17 percent. And Trump still holds substantial
OPINION: We Need a Civil Service That Can Do Its Best Work
Unlikely as it seems, U.S. government bureaucrats have been having a bit of a boomlet. For the last 23 years, the Partnership for Public Service has run an annual award, known as the “Sammies,” for civil servants who, in their words, “have helped our government innovate, save lives and deliver critical services to the public.”
OPINION: New York Must Address the Chaos at our Northern Border
Having safe, secure borders is a right every American deserves. The idea that we should be aware of who enters the country has somehow been deemed as negotiable in recent years. It is not, and the rhetoric surrounding these concepts has become dangerous. Recently, the issue has taken on new significance in New York state
OPINION: Trump was right about violent criminals being released into the U.S.
“I say, I told you so.” That was former President Donald Trump’s reaction at a Michigan rally on Sept. 27 [speaking about the new report showing] tens of thousands of violent, convicted criminals being let into the U.S. by the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security. That’s according to the latest data from Immigration and Customs
OPINION: Cuomo’s Continued COVID Lies Leave Families Without Answers
In the months following the [Gov. Andrew] Cuomo Administration’s March 2020 order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients, we have learned the administration leaned heavily on misinformation, cover-ups, and outright lies to avoid taking responsibility for one of the worst public-health decisions in recent memory. More than 15,000 long-term care residents died during the
OPINION: Polarization in Congress isn’t as bad as it seems
It’s conventional wisdom these days to say that Congress is hopelessly divided, maybe more so than ever, and that partisanship is making it impossible for
OPINION: Price Relief Hasn’t Been a Priority, and it Shows
One of the basic responsibilities of public service is to try to improve the day-to-day lives of the people we serve. Unfortunately, when it comes to basic economic conditions like responsible state spending, cost of living and managing inflation, New Yorkers have been ignored. Our affordability crisis should be near the top of the list
OPINION: Maybe the Vitriol in Congress Isn’t as Bad as It Seems
If you have followed media coverage of Congress over the past few years, it’s been hard to escape two impressions: Not much gets done there, and members spend a lot of their time tearing into one another. We can argue about the first — certainly, recent [sessions of] Congress have been less productive than their
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