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Illustration by Forest Byrd — The Enterprise

Frankly, there are times when we are embarrassed to be a New Yorker. Now is one of them.



Michael McKinley recently had surgery to remove shrapnel from his spine. He got it during combat in Vietnam.
"They just got the last piece of metal out of me," he said on Tuesday night. He still needs surgery to fix his lower back.



Albany County’s district attorney recently caused a firestorm when he criticized our costly criminal justice system, which continues to grow because of the laws we pass.

Illustration by Forest Byrd — The Enterprise


"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."

— Grover Cleveland’s inaugural address, March 4, 1885