Issue: December 2020-January 2021
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New York pushes local debates over police reform
New York’s push for police reform draws support, resistance locally Police cars line the street opposite the Saratoga Springs Police Department headquarters at City Hall. photo by Joan K. Lentini By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer The summer’s protests over police brutality and racial injustice have lately begun to spur talk of reform among read more
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From Saratoga, flavor by the clove
Horse trainer’s garlic-growing sideline becomes family business Bill and Max Higgins stand with bunches of garlic bulbs at their Homestead View Farm in the town of Northumberland. The father-and-son team produce their own line of Saratoga Garlic sauces. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer NORTHUMBERLAND, N.Y. On a windy, gray November afternoon, read more
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Election 2020: Results from three states
Here are the results of the Nov. 3 election for federal and state offices across the region. Winning candidates are in boldface type if the outcome is not in dispute. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). Statewide results for the presidential race are listed in the main table; a separate county-by-county tally of presidential read more
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Creating art in a holiday season darkened by Covid
Artists, nonprofits steer toward light in a darkened holiday season Michael Scupholm, the glass studio director at Salem Art Works in Salem, N.Y., shapes a blown-glass ornament. The pandemic has forced artists to work alone in SAW’s studios, rather than in groups. Courtesy photo By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer CHESHIRE, Mass. Rods of glass read more
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Reviews of local police offer first step to reform
Let’s start by stressing that the vast majority of police officers in our region and elsewhere are good people doing work that can be difficult and dangerous. Most of the time, they’re doing exactly what the public asks of them: They show up when we call for help, and they do their best to navigate read more
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A populist campaign in the swing state of NY
On the afternoon of Oct. 28, 1884, about 800 people, many from out of town, listened in a drizzling rain in the park at Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls, N.Y.) as third-party presidential candidate Benjamin Franklin Butler delivered a 90-minute speech. Butler, the candidate of the Greenback-Labor and Anti-Monopoly parties, forerunners of the progressive movement, read more