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George Hearst

George Hearst

Publisher, CEO & President at Times Union

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Editorial: Unfinished business - Times Union

With the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York pledged to wean itself off the fossil fuels that are imperiling life on Earth, going all in on green energy while protecting the most vulnerable among us from bearing the costs of the ambitious shift. The 2019 law was a powerful statement of New York values: responsibility, leadership, innovation, equity. But although values point us to where we want to go, policy is the vehicle that gets us there. And we’re not covering the dist…
over 1 year ago
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Editorial: Hudson River dumping is a toxic idea - Times Union

Back in 2006, the Competitive Enterprise Institute pushed back against growing concern about global warming with a video whose slogan could easily have been mistaken for a satirical punchline: “Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution. We call it life.” Whatever points the fossil fuel industry might have scored with less science-literate members of the public and Congress were arguably outweighed by the damage that laughable campaign did to its credibility. Today, the nuclear power industry might…
over 1 year ago
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Editorial: The travelers next door - Times Union

While short-term rental services like Airbnb may be a boon for travelers looking for cheaper digs and for homeowners hoping to make a little money off an extra room, they present a growing challenge for neighborhoods and communities that find themselves hosting the equivalent of hotels and motels where they were never intended to go. That’s one of the fundamental dilemmas localities like Albany face as the short-term rental industry expands, and as the state Legislature debates – some might say…
over 1 year ago
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Editorial: Immigration hypocrisy - Times Union

Two immigrants frozen to death along the Canadian border. Thousands of people stuck in a bureaucratic limbo that leaves many men, women and children without shelter between California and Mexico. One would think that such tragedy and human suffering would prompt a prominent member of Congress – one with all the clout and public exposure that comes with being her conference’s chair and highest-ranking woman in the House of Representatives – to push for the kind of change in immigration policy Ame…
over 1 year ago
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Editorial: Office of Cannabis Management needs a reset - Times Union

Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for New York’s Office of Cannabis Management — because, really, how could they? — along comes news that an official at the agency has been placed on leave amid an investigation into alleged retaliation against a producer who dared raise concerns about the state’s troubled marijuana rollout. The official is Damian Fagon, the cannabis agency’s chief equity officer, who is accused of orchestrating a recall of cannabis gummies made by a Columbia Count…
over 1 year ago
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Editorial: Gov. Hochul overdoes it - Times Union

All’s well. So let’s call out the National Guard. That’s pretty much the conflicting message that Gov. Kathy Hochul is delivering on crime, in particular in the New York City subway system. Crime is actually down, but — the governor reasons — people don’t feel safe, so she has to take action. And some action it is. Among other actions in her “five-point plan,” Ms. Hochul is deploying 750 National Guard members, with automatic weapons, to assist New York City police in searching people’s bags and…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Burdett decision is Health Department's to make - Times ...

The Burdett Birth Center is vital to Rensselaer County, and the state Department of Health should reject St. Peter’s Health Partners’ proposal to close the facility and shift its operations to Albany. That’s been our position since the closure was first proposed, and we’ve heard nothing from St. Peter’s or Trinity Health, its parent company, that would change our stance. Rensselaer County families deserve and need a safe, accessible place for women to give birth — period. With that said, we ha…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: It's time to talk about nuclear power - Times Union

The planned expansion of GlobalFoundries’ Fab 8 campus in Malta is a shot in the arm for the Capital Region and the state of New York, promising good jobs and economic opportunity and strengthening our position as a leader in a crucial sector. The plan would triple the semiconductor plant’s capacity and add thousands of permanent and temporary jobs. But as with pretty much everything in life, there’s a tradeoff: The plant will be a huge consumer of energy – just as New York is worried over grid…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: A system on the brink - Times Union

Citing potential settlements in Child Victims Act lawsuits, voluntary foster care agencies say the child welfare system faces an existential threat: Payouts could bankrupt agencies, impacting both foster care and the wraparound services these entities provide. The Child Victims Act in 2019 opened a window on the statute of limitations, allowing survivors of sexual abuse to sue those they saw as responsible. Voluntary foster care agencies are named as defendants in about 15 percent of those cases…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: New York's stairway to nowhere - Times Union

As a metaphor for government bureaucracy, the state Capitol’s Eastern Approach is uncomfortably apt. Sure, the exterior staircase is big – awe-inspiring, even – and telegraphs wealth, power and history. But as far as serving its intended purpose goes, it’s not doing all that great a job, and making it work like it’s supposed to will take an obscene amount of money. So if you want in, try the side door – a little harder to find, maybe, but if you know, you know, right? Meanwhile, unsightly barric…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Trump's border blockade - Times Union

It has been less than two months since this editorial board responded to the demands of Republicans in Congress to link aid for Ukraine with immigration reforms by encouraging President Joe Biden to say, in sum and substance, bring it on. If the GOP was actually going to use the threat of abandoning a desperate nation as it faces Russian aggression — a betrayal with dire repercussions around the globe — the best possible outcome would be ensuring that progress could actually be made on immigrati…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Rensselaer County's scarlet D - Times Union

Officials in Rensselaer County are rightly frustrated with drug dealing and fatal overdoses, and they have come up with an apparently novel solution: a drug dealer registry. Under the new law, which passed in the County Legislature unanimously, people convicted of felony drug sales will be required to register with the county district attorney’s office once they are released from prison or have otherwise satisfied the terms of their punishment. Their names will then be placed on a publicly acce…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Two-state solution is the way to peace - Times Union

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s open rejection of a two-state solution to the conflict between his nation and the Palestinian people stands in defiance of what the United States and much of the world has long considered the only path to peace. If Mr. Netanyahu’s view prevails, it would almost certainly ensure that the enduring hostility and violence will be unending. The prime minister and many in his hawkish coalition aren’t the only ones to hold this view. It’s shared by leaders of…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: The would-be strongman - Times Union

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal,” President Richard Nixon told interviewer David Frost in 1977. This came in response to a question about the “Huston Plan,” an infamous document formulated by a White House aide and approved by Mr. Nixon in July 1970. It called for a campaign of burglaries and illegal wiretapping against so-called “revolutionary protest movements”; an initial version contemplated detention camps for radicals. Even FBI director J. Edgar Hoover thought t…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: SEDC, try transparency - Times Union

It’s a simple idea, but it’s one that many people seem to have a hard time understanding: Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent. The Saratoga Economic Development Corporation, for example, is unhappy that it has to comply with the Public Authorities Accountability Act. In December, a state appeals court reversed a lower court’s decision and ruled that the SEDC – which receives taxpayer funding from the county and the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency – must in…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Troy's Schofield debacle - Times Union

We published an editorial online Saturday morning responding to the news that Jason T. Schofield had been offered a city job by the Troy City Council’s Republican majority. We’re happy to report that a few hours after we described it as a “gob-smacking, eye-rolling, spit-take-inducing development” — even by Rensselaer County standards — the proposal was rendered moot: Mr. Schofield decided to take himself out of the running for the post of assistant to the city clerk. While it might not have be…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Arbitration vexation - Times Union

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Police Chief Eric Hawkins want to fire three officers after an investigation found the trio allegedly collected salaries for simultaneously working hours for the police force and the city housing authority. But the officers’ future with the department may depend on the arbitration process conducted by the state’s Public Employee Relations Board, which has repeatedly forced the city to rehire officers it sought to fire. The PERB, in other words, is keeping bad offic…
almost 2 years ago
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Editorial: Smart veto on retail crime - Times Union

New York needs to address the issue of what’s commonly referred to as organized retail crime. What it doesn’t need, though, is a task force laden with political agendas to do it. So we commend Gov. Kathy Hochul for vetoing a bill that would likely have ended up spending millions of public dollars on a performative ideological exercise. The question now is what meaningful approach the state can take. Here’s a start: Find out just how serious the problem is. Organized retail crime generally refers…
about 2 years ago
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Editorial: The GOP makes the case for voting by mail - Times Union

Sometimes, elected officials and political parties do the right things for the wrong reasons. That’s the case with a recent lawsuit filed by New York Republicans and U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik. The lawsuit argues that the state’s new vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional — and on that point, Republicans are likely right. After all, the law passed by Democrats in the Legislature and signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul achieves nearly the same goal as a proposed amendment to New York’s constitution that was…
about 2 years ago
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Editorial: Ms. James' misguided attempt at preventing plastic pollu...

A lawsuit filed against PepsiCo isn’t the right way to address a complicated problem.
about 2 years ago
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Editorial: Education evolves, again - Times Union

We welcome recommendations that would significantly change high school education — but the Regents should remember that public education requires public buy-in.
about 2 years ago