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Special delivery: Biodiversity begins at home

The town of Guilderland is proposing a local law that would create a Tree Preservation Committee to protect and preserve native trees.

We urge passage of this law. And we liked the proposal made by councilwoman Amanda Beedle to have an index of native trees on the town’s website.

This would inform residents choosing trees for their yards on which trees are native to the area and would help preserve the ecology and attract native pollinators.

Labor Day is no picnic for farm workers who’ve been left behind

“It’s wicked to try to take the people at the bottom of the food chain, the working-class people at the bottom of the food chain who are making the least amount of money and hold them there and say, ‘We can’t survive if you make more money.’”

Can Guilderland help save the planet? Maybe if we plan it.

We urge those selecting and serving on the committee that will chart Guilderland’s future to think about what would both enhance the town’s sense of community as well as help quell climate change. The two are not unrelated.

Democracy matters at every level of government

As Americans, we are well aware after Jan. 6, 2021, that democracy needs to be carefully tended.

Too many of us take our form of government, and the freedoms it offers, for granted. Citizens can be engaged in supporting and protecting democracy in many ways.

But the cornerstone is the ballot.