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Return our river to its previous purity

General Electric should pay for cleaning up the mess it made. The company must be held responsible by our government through the Environmental Protection Agency.

Local leaders must act to put housing in reach

High-priced housing is a bane not just for old New Yorkers but for young ones trying to move out of their parents’ basements, for millennials hoping to start families, for the workforce priced out of homes in the places where they work.

Our local leaders can help us wake up from this nightmare by signing on as pro-housing communities. Each of our towns will be richer if our elders can stay here, if our young residents can live and contribute in the place where they were raised, and if future generations can build on the foundation of home ownership.

Rework Foundation Aid formula to make distribution fair

Save harmless is a Band-Aid that won’t be able to cover all the wounds of declining enrollment.

A retired town cop is fighting for his life, having consistent health insurance is essential

Dean Spadaro is a strong man.

He told us he is weak.

“I used to be very strong and muscular. I’ve lost everything — no testosterone,” he said. “I tried working out and couldn’t do it.”

New York state needs a single, enforced standard of assessment

New York state must do away with the “nightmare scenario” and must set a single standard of assessment — an umbrella in the storm of changing property values — that is enforced statewide and thereby protects taxpayers.