Editorials

You can’t say that education is up to the states while simultaneously demanding that states do your bidding. And yet, here we are. We again commend New York state for its stance against this perfidy. In its DEI purge, the federal government has removed historic accomplishments of people who are not white men from websites ranging from the Pentagon to the Park Service. None of us should accept the purging of our history. Men and women of different races, religions, and cultures have all made important contributions to the United States. We erase that history at our own peril.

Letters to the Editor

Sean Fitzmaurice, 1st Lieutenant, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

Ted Neumann, Altamont Community Tradition

Theresa Strasser, Publicist, Friendship Singers

JoAnne Brady, Vice President, Woodlawn Cemetery Board

Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland  Presbyterian Church

Robyn Gray, Chairwoman, Guilderland, Coalition for Responsible Growth

My first whale watch did not go well.

At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for students — and a day on which it seemed half the population of the Northeast had poured into Bar Harbor.

Gardner Gurney, President, Guilderland Historical Society

John B. Haluska, Second Vice President, Guilderland Garden Club

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