Opinion Archives July 2024

Syracuse University workers vital to building an equitable food system (Guest Opinion by Maura Ackerman)

Make Micron pay for ‘staggering’ environmental harms (Guest Opinion by Catherine Landis)

Supreme Court is absolutely partisan (Your Letters)

NY restricts veteran tuition assistance. It’s time that changed (Guest Opinion by Michael Bower)

Editorial cartoons for July 21, 2024: Trump shot, Vance for VP, Biden’s slipping support

Should NY ban phones in schools? Tell us (and Gov. Hochul) what you think (Editorial Board Opinion)

‘Investing in America’ creates opportunity for people in Syracuse, CNY (Guest Opinion by Mayor Ben Walsh)

Syracuse STEAM High School preparing to ignite minds and foster futures (Your Letters)

Demand deeper accounting of Micron’s 100% renewable energy promise (Guest Opinion by Peter Wirth)

The social media warning label is for the parents (Guest Opinion by Jeff Frank)

Supreme Court justices are not partisans (Guest Opinion by Michael T. Hayes)

Veterans exposed to asbestos should get regular health check-ups, learn their rights (Your Letters)

Editorial cartoons for July 14, 2024: Biden’s campaign crisis, Trump and Project 2025

Feds just gave us 40 million reasons to believe in the Upstate tech hub (Editorial Board Opinion)

Supreme Court remains skeptical of attempts to regulate social media (Guest Opinion by Roy S. Gutterman)

Syracuse Friends Meeting: All of us must work to make peace in Gaza (Your Letters)

The Syracuse grocer who sold McCarthyism: a cautionary tale for our times (Guest Opinion by Fred M. Fiske)

Assessing President Biden’s fitness for office (Your Letters)

County legislator: Protect Medicare Advantage from proposed cuts (Your Letters)

Union fought to know when Centro is surveilling workers -- and won (Your Letters)

A veteran endures July Fourth: ‘This country has plenty of noise. What we need is dialogue’ (Your Letters)

Readers criticize Biden, Trump and the debate itself (Your letters)

Editorial cartoons for July 7, 2024: Presidential debate fallout, SCOTUS immunity ruling, more

High school junior asks Brandon Williams to make companies pay fee for pollution (Your letters)

Thanks to Jazz Fest founder for another musical weekend in Syracuse (Your letters)

Syracuse’s Jazz Fest is everything a great city deserves (Editorial Board Opinion)

Sen. Schumer: Please tell President Biden to step aside (Your letters)

Commentary: Biden’s latest order may end long fight for immigrant family unity

Housing advocate: Landlords suing to stop city inspections put tenants at risk (Your Letters)

School board’s media strategy undermines its own student journalists (Guest Opinion by Angelina Grevi)