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George Hearst

George Hearst

Publisher, CEO & President at Times Union

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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…
over 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…
over 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…
over 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…
over 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…
over 2 years 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…
over 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
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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 2 years ago