Noah Zweifel’s job is not an easy one. He does it with care and insight, and manages to write with grace.

The retirement of Maria Buhl and Kim LaPlant from their decades of work at the Guilderland Public Library have nothing to do with the controversy caused by the Café con Mel’s accusations of racism.

Sometimes, when swimming in the Sea of Knowledge, it is necessary to tread water. Rather than jumping to conclusions, we need to have more information. 

General Electric should pay for cleaning up the mess it made. The company must be held responsible by our government through the Environmental Protection Agency.

High-priced housing is a bane not just for old New Yorkers but for young ones trying to move out of their parents’ basements, for millennials hoping to start families, for the workforce priced out of homes in the places where they work.

Our local leaders can help us wake up from this nightmare by signing on as pro-housing communities. Each of our towns will be richer if our elders can stay here, if our young residents can live and contribute in the place where they were raised, and if future generations can build on the foundation of home ownership.

Save harmless is a Band-Aid that won’t be able to cover all the wounds of declining enrollment.

Dean Spadaro is a strong man.

He told us he is weak.

“I used to be very strong and muscular. I’ve lost everything — no testosterone,” he said. “I tried working out and couldn’t do it.”

New York state must do away with the “nightmare scenario” and must set a single standard of assessment — an umbrella in the storm of changing property values — that is enforced statewide and thereby protects taxpayers.

Westerlo Supervisor Matthew Kryzak says, “Everyone knows in order to be successful you need to have a plan and work to that plan.” Everyone, that is, but the grasshopper or perhaps the sunshine politician.