Guilderland school leaders need to come up with a fair plan to downsize

Certainly the town government can and is doing some things that will attract families to the district like maintaining an excellent park system with recreational programs, and requiring developers to include low-income and workforce housing in their projects. Guilderland also, as we’ve written before on this page, needs to undertake another town-wide property revaluation to set the school district on a more secure financial foundation.

Be the change you wish to see in the world

Do many of us care about suffering on the other side of the world, about burdens borne by people we’ll never meet? What gives us hope is thinking about the lessons learned by Christine White’s young students.

Composting: A call to action

Greenhouse gases have reached their highest level in over 800,000 years, upsetting the natural equilibrium, the scientists found. That imbalance is heating up not just the atmosphere but the oceans and the once-frozen areas on earth.

Lessons in love learned on a bus full of cancer patients

by Melissa Hale-Spencer
The source of this warmth and sense of well being was the driver, Francesca Lo Porto-Brandow. She is the driver both literally and figuratively of the Flutter Express. She has used her own cancer and that of her father and her husband not to wall herself off or to wallow in self-pity but, rather, to help others along what she calls their “health-care journey.”

If we allow our history to be whitewashed, the richness and strength of our nation will disappear

The same issues abolitionists like the Myerses struggled with — housing, health care, jobs, and education — are still issues today. We need that history to guide and inspire us.

Guilderland needs to revalue property

The school district suffered millions of dollars in losses from tax certiorari suits; it could equally benefit from a reassessment now as would the library, the county, and the town itself.

What is chaos and whom does it serve?

We’ve spent a year listening to the hurt caused by this chaos. We’ve written about people losing their homes, struggling to feed their families, closing their businesses, losing their medical care, having their sense of identity stripped away.

We need to provide a path forward for people who have long been exploited

For centuries in our nation, people with disabilities have fought for their civil rights. The fight is not yet over.