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Essay: Exercise your body, mind during COVID-19

We have a lot more work to do to get past COVID-19, but being physically active will help ensure we emerge as strong and healthy as...
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Essay: NY must support, not impede, farming

Come January, can Congress break its gridlock? | Kelly

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Thank you to health-care and front-line workers

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Essay: It’s up to us to cure our country’s ills

Essay: Support equity, access for all students

Essay: Make to-go, delivery alcohol permanent

Essay: Happy birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Essay: No easy answer on who to memorialize

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Thank you to health-care and front-line workers

If you want to honor the efforts of medical personnel, be sure to avoid large gatherings and don't spend time indoors with people you don't live with.

by Editorial Board  | 4 days ago

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Essay: It’s up to us to cure our country’s ills

Every challenge that has existed in America preceded Donald Trump's presidency.

by George Cassidy Payne  | 5 days ago

340B changes will hurt NY health centers

More than 2.5 million New Yorkers are at risk of losing health services right now. Few people know it.

by Anne Kauffman Nolon  | 5 days ago

Voters across the Northeast weigh in on presidential race

Two dozen reporters and photojournalists from the USA TODAY Network Atlantic Group asked 56 voters from across the Northeast who they will vote for.

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Essay: Let’s elevate our critical thinking

If every high school graduate was able to exhibit critical thinking, would we not expect to see more productive debates among citizens and candidates?

Essay: Support equity, access for all students

COVID-19 has ripped back the ¡°curtain of disparity¡± in schools and revealed the magnitude of inequitable access to many educational services.

Coming weeks are crucial for America | Kelly

The 9/11 Commission, led by former NJ Gov. Tom Kean, warned about the consequences of delayed presidential transitions.

Mike Kelly

Essay: Make to-go, delivery alcohol permanent

Legislators in New York should recognize the important role that alcohol delivery and online technology platforms have played during COVID-19.

Joe Biden must move America forward | Editorial

Joe Biden must rise to the occasion?¡ª we¡¯re depending on his leadership to move America forward.

Biden: To heal, he will face obstacles

President-elect Joe Biden, charged with leading a divided nation forward, will face many obstacles. He's up to the challenge.

Mike Kelly

Thinking about a big family Thanksgiving feast? Don’t

The out-of-town uncle you invite for Thanksgiving dinner may do more than pass the potatoes. He could spread COVID and not even know it.

Essay: Happy birthday, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Leader in the woman's rights movement would have been honored to see so many of her offspring waiting to vote, giving her a memorable birthday gift.

Legal weed in NY is essential ¡ª now

After NJ's legalization of marijuana, the Empire State must follow suit. The economy demands it.

Essay: No easy answer on who to memorialize

If we are to have monuments, let us honor those who uplift us and call forth the better angels of our nature.

Our view: Vote, reach out and build hope

We can roll up our sleeves and take simple but meaningful steps toward thinking up solutions, fostering unity and building a brighter American future.

NY must allow medical cannabis for migraine sufferers

New York must allow the use of medical marijuana for those who suffer from migraines.

Essay: Heroes bill a lifeline for small business

This legislation preserves citizens¡¯ access to local news by enabling local newspapers and broadcasters to access Paycheck Protection Program funds.

Essay: Reject electricity delivery rate hike

These increases will harm rural utility consumers, medically vulnerable consumers, and those with low or fixed incomes.

Our view: Improve mental-health response in NY

Across New York state, there is ample evidence it is now?time for mental illness, and our responses to it, to move to center stage:

Essay: Continued support of the UN needed

US and world community needs the UN funds to gain strength, create and conserve international programs, develop and preserve natural resources.

Addressing students’ mental health challenges

The SUNY system is working to facilitate the expansion of mental health services for its students, argues Chancellor Jim Malatras.

Our view: Be sure to vote in 2020 election

We know voting matters because some of the most monumental movements in U.S. history placed the right of suffrage as the core of their efforts.

Essay: NY needs workforce to rebuild economy

Embrace and support the immigrant workforce, whose members have proven invaluable in the past and will do so again as we rebuild the economy.

Essay: Most Americans share common goals

The vast majority of Americans speak the same universal language of love, peace, and unity.

US needs respect for tax law and order

Amid jousting on tax policy, has Trump paid his own fair share of federal income tax?

Opinion: NY state¡¯s restaurants need federal relief

But Congress needs to step up and provide real relief to the restaurant industry and pass the Restaurants Act.

Prime Day must have ‘buyer beware’ warning

Consumers, beware: There are some deals that are too good to be true. Support legislation to hold online marketplaces accountable.

Divides endure for legal weed users | Opinion

Legalizing weed has freed thousands of prisoners. Yet there are inconsistencies that linger in the way the legal cannabis industry is taking shape,

National Coming Out Day: One Coming Out guides me

Coming out is different for everyone. We mark National Coming Out Day with the?stories of 18 gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people.

International college students are essential

Higher education leaders must advocate for international students to attend American institutions of learning and assure them very much wanted.

COVID-19 separated me from my students: Opinion

In-class instruction forced the author to retire from her career as a science teacher. Here's why.

U.S. health care: The life at stake may be your own

The Trump Administration's effort to attack the Affordable Care Act is reckless ¡ª unless the ACA is credibly replaced in a thoughtful way.

Goodbye, RBG. Goodbye, ACA? | Opinion

The election will likely determine the future of the Affordable Care Act. Vote to preserve American health care.

Don’t defund the police. Defund the war on drugs.

Decriminalizing narcotic abuse would end the worst of the violence and individual rights violations of the drug war.

Will Trump’s COVID infection finally wake America?

Let¡¯s hope Trump recovers. He is after all the president, sworn to defend America from its enemies. But let¡¯s not forget what happened.

Mike Kelly

COVID-19: Again, we say: Wear the mask

We know our vibrant, diverse communities here in the northeast?¡ª which have been on the frontlines of the crisis for more than six months ¡ª?can continue slow the spread.

Essay: Send EMT, Peer duo to mental health calls

If Daniel Prude had received immediate assistance from a peer/EMT first response team rather than the police, he might still be alive today.

Essay: Hope for a nation divided by face masks

When information supported by scientific evidence is used for political debate, our actions become misinformed, inefficient and damaging.

Essay: Science vs. skepticism: A rigged fight

Reducing the spread of false information and the politicization of science is necessary so we can spend our energy addressing the crises themselves.

Essay: National debt stifles science innovation

We have been conditioned to think everything must be ¡°paid for¡± by taxpayers and that government spending impedes private-sector innovation.

Essay: Scientists must communicate effectively

In today¡¯s world, misinformation is rampant and a general distrust in scientific facts is evident.

Essay: Take time for your health this fall

During the challenging times we face now, taking care of your mind and body is essential.

Essay: The mission of modern police chiefs

Reform of police departments includes discarding the obsolete police attitude and approach of warriors and adopt the model of guardians.

Justice system not designed for Black Americans | Opinion

I used to get really sad when unarmed Black people were killed at the hands of police, but now? I¡¯m mad as hell ¡ª and you should be, too.