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Street psychiatry in Albany County will provide a much needed safety net

We commend Albany County for a street psychiatry program launched as a pilot program last week and urge support to make it grow and flourish. The psychiatry program is the next step on the progressive path that Albany has chosen to stop the triple scourge of mental illness, drug addiction, and homelessness.

Preservation of the Pine Bush provides a lesson in democracy

Since our democracy is a government of the people, her account provides a useful lesson on how messy democracy can be. Jackson’s story is one of citizens pushing for preservation, sometimes suing the government, so that, ultimately, preservation was embraced by the government.

Our children cannot find their way without the freedom to read a variety of views

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Breathing is essential; we cannot live without it. So, too, is reading essential for a democracy; a democracy cannot survive without an informed citizenry.

Celebrate Juneteenth to make sure our history doesn’t disappear

This is a question each of us should ask ourselves: What have I done to make things better? Write us with your answers; maybe we’ll start a movement.

We shall overcome someday

When Pauline and Henry Fowle Durant founded Wellesley 150 years ago, higher education for women was a radical idea. “Women can do the work,” said Mr. Durant. “I give them the chance.” He said he wanted to prepare women for “great conflicts, for vast reforms in social life.” In this current era of great conflict, vast reforms are still needed.