"This is Halloween! This is Halloween!" Do you recognize that? It's from one of my favorite movies to watch this time of year: the 1993 stop-motion animated classic Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It was released by Touchstone Pictures, a division of Disney, so I consider Jack Skellington and Sally one of the best couples ever in a Disney animated movie.

There’s a lot of ways for football coaches to get fired. Maybe the easiest one is to lose a lot of games. You can also lose the support of your players or get into a fight with your school administration or team owners. The one thing that typically doesn’t get you fired is winning. And winning by a lot.

It was called the Passover Plot. In the Middle Ages, a story originated that Jews would routinely catch Christian children, kill them and use their blood to make matzoh - the unleavened bread eaten during the Passover holidays. That meme persisted as an effective prop to antisemitism up through the era of Nazi Germany.

Racism is alive and well in the Capital Region, and the most recent example, which has caught both local and national attention, comes from Colonie Central High School.

Working in education means spending much of your day showing up for other people. You show up for students who need support, families who have questions, and colleagues who are trying to work through a challenge. As a principal, I see that commitment every day.

One of the largest, most striking canvases in Lois Dickson’s new show at the Time & Space Limited (TSL) gallery in Hudson, New York, Forty Years of Painting, involves Welwitschia Mirabilis.

In small doses, inflammation is a good thing because it protects us and starts the healing process. But what happens when inflammation doesn’t turn off?

There is a conviction in Christian tradition that it is often the most dejected or looked-down-upon members of society, rather than the wealthiest and most powerful, who in fact know best about how to make their communities a better place.

Quietly, last month, the New York State Democratic Committee transferred $10 million to Governor Hochul’s re-election campaign war chest. You heard that right: $10 million. And the move was entirely legal.

The Federal Drug Administration has found there are no medical uses for kratom. The Drug Enforcement Agency lists all kratom products as drugs and chemicals of concern. The U.S. population is by far the largest user of kratom.