Issue: February-March 2022
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In New York’s new farm overtime rules, progress or ruin?
In New York’s new overtime rules, some see agriculture’s transformation — or its ruin Stewart Ziehm tends to the cows at Tiashoke Farms, a dairy operation near Buskirk, N.Y., on a cold winter day. Joan K. Lentini photo By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. Labor and social justice activists are calling it a read more
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Pet rabbits find sanctuary at new Saratoga-area shelter
Rabbit “foster mom” Brandy Caro, yoga instructor Jamie Lemnotis and yoga student Stephanie Lyons enjoy a moment with the rabbits after a Bunny Yoga class at Hop on Home, a rabbit rescue and adoption organization, at its space at Wilton Mall in Saratoga County. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer WILTON, read more
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Local House race could be bellwether
National parties eye Delgado’s seat in battle for Congress U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, left, faces a potentially strong challenge from Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, right, as he seeks a third term in New York’s 19th Congressional District. By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer The Hudson Valley congressional race taking shape between read more
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Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking
Show at Hyde celebrates master printer Blackburn and those he inspired Robert Blackburn’s “Refugees” (also known as “People in a Boat”) was completed about 1938, when he was still a teenager, and nearly a decade before he opened the printmaking workshop that would reshape his own art and the works of many others. He read more
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A candidate tests his party’s appetite for reform
Before Glens Falls native Charles Evans Hughes entered the race for New York governor in 1906, Republicans from Warren and Washington counties were lining up behind an early candidate from Saratoga County: state Sen. Edgar Truman Brackett. “Senator Brackett would make an ideal candidate for governor,” said Addison B. Colvin, a former state treasurer who read more
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To save democracy, curb the gerrymander
It’s a dispiriting time for those who dream of revitalizing New York’s sclerotic democracy.In November, voters rejected a pair of no-brainer ballot propositions that would have made it easier to take part in future elections – by allowing no-excuse absentee voting and by letting new voters register closer to Election Day. The defeat of these read more
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Spa City’s new leaders push for police accountability
In a case of elections having consequences, a newly sworn-in City Council moved swiftly at its first meeting of the year to pursue two longtime goals of police reform advocates in Saratoga Springs. The new council scheduled a Feb. 1 public hearing to start the process of creating a new Civilian Review Board that would read more