As a lifelong SUNY professor, I have taken a particular interest in Dr. Alain Kaloyeros. Though most people have probably never heard of him, this guy is one of the most talented people to ever work for the State University of New York. He was the lynchpin of Andrew […]
Publisher’s Corner
Big trouble for NY Republicans
The second great presidential debate is now behind us and the implications, both state and federal, are huge. Everyone has theories about what’s really going on and I’ll give you a few of mine. After the Donald Trump sex tapes hit the airwaves, Republican leaders who never liked […]
Keep your politics away from SUNY
I worked for a long, long time as a SUNY professor, first at New Paltz, a campus I truly loved, and then as a joint professor at SUNY New Paltz and SUNY Albany. During my tenure at SUNY, the university grew to be better and better. The students were […]
Where the game lies
I love to try to play a game where I put myself in someone else’s place. First of all, I inevitably feel better than I did before the game and second, it helps me figure out where the game lies. Take the case of Andrew Cuomo and the massive […]
Follow Harry’s advice: Vote ‘No’ on a Constitutional Convention
Every time I turn around, someone is espousing a New York State Constitutional Convention. I think this is a very bad idea. If a Constitutional Convention were capable of cleaning up the huge New York State Constitution (more than 50,000 words) and removing stuff that should be in statute […]
Twitter is the new political tool
My birthday is not until next July but Rich Azzopardi of Governor Cuomo’s press office has recently sent me a gift that should certainly be acknowledged. Azzopardi, who was once my student on The Legislative Gazette newspaper, now seems to be in charge of retributive tweeting for the governor. […]
We must declare a war on addiction
New York state is not alone in its drug inundation. We’ve all been watching the heroin scourge threatening to drown us just as surely as the rising water levels in our oceans threaten the same thing. We really don’t understand why our children too often turn to drugs. I […]
In politics, turnabout is fair play
There seems to be a fierce contest of wills between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo and there is a lot of speculation about both men looking for surrogates to defeat one another in their coming reelection campaigns. Neither man is particularly popular. De Blasio’s reputation among a […]