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SALTILLO • Opposition to a proposed annex that would add 2.2 square miles to the city’s limits has forced Saltillo officials to rework the proposal before it gets to court.

Adieu, old friend. When the  Times Union announced last week it would kill its entire selection of community blogs, including mine, the move felt like root canal. It wasn’t just the pain of watching my writing gig end after eight years—or my discomfort with the TU’s shutdown of a bastion of unfettered speech, a rare diversity of voices in a shrinking free press. It’s that I’m getting an actual root canal when the blogs shut down on Friday. Naturally, the timing is purely coincidental...

Rex Smith: Grievance saps needed confidence FacebookTwitterEmail Photo illustration by Jeff Boyer / Times UnionPhoto illustration by Jeff Boyer / Times Union Our nation is more divided, we’re often told these days, than at any time since the Civil War. We don’t trust each other. People are disappointed in every institution — government, church, schools, business, the media. We’re really angry. At a certain point, you have to ask: Just what is so awful in America that is making folks so ...

SALTILLO • Saltillo voters will have two or more mayoral candidates from which to choose when they got to the polls later this year. Incumbent Rex Smith qualified for re-election on Jan. 4 as a Republican; current alderman Copey Grantham said he plans to qualify Monday as a Republican; and Saltillo police officer Dylan Whitt said he is considering a run for mayor. If he runs, it will be as a Republican. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Journal, Grantham, 36, said he had originally ...

Rex Smith retired in 2021 after 26 years with the Times Union, serving 18 of those years as the newspaper’s editor. He grew up in South Dakotas Black Hills but became a New Yorker in 1979. Rex Smith retired in 2021 after 26 years with the Times Union, serving 18 of those years as the newspaper’s editor. He grew up in South Dakotas Black Hills but became a New Yorker in 1979.Full bio Recent Stories By Rex Smith

A 2016 editorial called for electors to abandon Trump. We asked why, and whats changed. This episode of Eagle explains how the Editorial Board operates independently of the newsroom FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Buy PhotoHarry Rosenfeld, left, Michael Spain, center, and Jay Jochnowitz, right, interview State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman during a Times Union editorial board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in Colonie, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)WWShow MoreShow Less 2of3 The Tim...

Many virtual holiday concerts; WNYT to televise Albany Symphony show | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PHOTOGRAPHER: Albany Pro Musica’s “Many Moods of Christmas” concert last year at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. This year, the group presents "The Best of the Many Moods of Christmas" through its website. (Gary Gold) Shares0 Holiday concerts are few and far between this year, but a handful of organizations are offering at least some cheery sounds. The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra initially s...

the case made national headlines. for the first time her mothers and siblings are talking a one year after she vanished. tom roussey is live with where the case stands. >> she went to school here in frederick and she lived in the frederick area when she disappeared. friends, families, and supporters packed into this art gallery for a vigil for her. several members of her family spoke for the first time. >> i thank you for the bottom of my heart. >> and the first public comments, she th...

brushing off the spectacle that developed over a scheduling snafu with congress. >> and the side shows dont matter. this is irrelevant. >> reporter: the stuff started on wednesday when the president said he wanted to lay out his economic and jobs plan to a joint seg of congress next wednesday. the night lawmakers return from the august recess. on the same evening, a republican debate is on the calendar. >> either, a, he wants to distract the american people sothy dont watch him, or, b,...

>> bill: hi, im bil bill ore. thanks for joining us for this special preks o presentation oe factors finest. gallup poll on redistribution of health. here is what struck me about the gallup poll. half the country, 47% wants the income redistr redistribution. >> that is oft and right wing buzz phrase that means we will give more money. >> bill: this is a gallup poll. >> we have a progressive tax system in the country and we tax the rich more. that is the way it has always been. >> bill:...