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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. I’d made my Feb. 5 appointment to kill my bottom second-from-the-left molar well before I learne...

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 damn mad? And can’t we just get over it? Pop therapists tell us to let go of our anger and we’ll...

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 planned to run for his current position as city alderman for another term, but recently decided to a...

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 Dakota's 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 Dakota's Black Hills but became a New Yorker in 1979.Full bio Recent Stories By Rex Smith