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WAMCI am the mother of children close to the age my brother and I were when my family fled Bosnia. -
WAMCFriday evening the state Assembly wrapped up its 2026 legislative session, a day after the state Senate. In many ways the legislative session was a typical one: The budget was late (the latest since 2010); lawmakers held campaign fundraising events in the Capital District; and hundreds of bills were approved at the end of session in a flurry of activity in both houses.
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The Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from official discrimination on the ground of race, or the exercise of rights protected by the Bill of Rights, including rights of speech and press. -
It was a small miracle that my husband and I made it to a recent screening of “The Sheep Detectives,” the surprise hit movie that follows an animated flock of talking sheep through a murder mystery in the British countryside.
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In April, the Greene County Legislature decided to celebrate National Poetry Month in an unusual way. They fired the county’s poet laureate, Esther Cohen. What was the cause? She practiced her First Amendment rights as guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
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Sometimes the hardest part about watching elite, Olympic level sports, especially in things like track and swimming, is the lingering doubt about whether athletes are competing clean.
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On Monday of this week, Pope Leo XIV released to the public his first encyclical letter. Its Latin title Magnifica Humanitas may be translated as “The Grandeur of Humanity.” The letter is addressed to all people of good will, not only Catholic believers.
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According to the FCC website, federal law prohibits the broadcast of anything obscene, indecent, or profane. Of course, what’s obscene, indecent, or profane is somewhat up for debate, but you probably have a general idea of the words I can’t say and the images I can’t try to summon in your heads.
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Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. Bar-B-Qs, picnics, vacationing, Americans will want to be outdoors. And at events large and small, in parks or backyards, Americans bring with them the foods and beverages that are easiest to transport.
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Today, I am taking off my economist’s hat and putting on the hat of a movie critic. Memorial Day weekend, my daughter Ivy is releasing Ask E. Jean (which she directed) an absolutely brilliant biopic about the life of the writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Among the items in a Chatham, New York pop-up created by Maira Kalman, the artist, cartoonist and author, that you’re unlikely to find in your average store is a long fanciful piece of embroidery by Maira called Heaven Help Us. -
People often assume becoming an author was always part of my plan. The truth is, it wasn’t.
