Letter: Changes need in mental health education in New York
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FILE. Letter writer says, Schools must teach children from a young age about mental health problems, how to tell if people around them may be suffering and how to get help. (Stacey Lauren/Times Union Archive)STACEY LAUREN
Every year, millions of children suffering from mental health issues go untreated. However, a few policy changes in New York state would make a difference.
We need change in mental health education. Schools must teach children from a young age about mental health problems, how to tell if people around them may be suffering and how to get help. If elementary school students learn about depression and anxiety alongside personal hygiene and safety, the stigma surrounding mental health will decrease.
Photos: 100 years of Democratic mayors in Albany
Kevin O Toole, Paul Grondahl
Feb. 3, 2021
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It has been 100 years since the O Connell-Corning Democratic machine seized control of City Hall in 1921 by defeating the entrenched Barnes Republican machine. The Democrats have not relinquished power since.
Albany ranks first as the longest run of uninterrupted Democratic rule, longer than Boston (since 1930), Chicago (1931), St. Louis (1949), Philadelphia (1951), Buffalo (1962) or any other deep-blue city in the nation.
Democrat William Stormont Hackett won election in 1921, ending the Republican machine s longtime hold on the city s political levers. Hackett would be the first in a long string of Democrats occupying the mayor s office in Albany. That line of Democratic control in Albany continues under the city s current mayor, Kathy Sheehan, sworn in seven years ago.
How 100 years of the Democratic rule has shaped the city of Albany
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Albany County Democratic boss Dan O Connell, undated. (Bernie Kolenberg, Times Union archives/Courtesy William Kennedy)
ALBANY One can argue whether the Albany Democratic machine was good or evil or how much of it remains today, but this much is indisputable: It has etched itself into American political history as one for the ages.
It has been 100 years since the O’Connell-Corning Democratic machine seized control of City Hall in 1921 by defeating the entrenched Barnes Republican machine. The Democrats have not relinquished power since.
Albany ranks first as the longest run of uninterrupted Democratic rule, longer than Boston (since 1930), Chicago (1931), St. Louis (1949), Philadelphia (1951), Buffalo (1962) or any other deep-blue city in the nation.
Coronavirus vaccine available for New York s confined sex offenders
State Office of Mental Health vaccinating those confined, which includes those convicted of heinous crimes
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View from the perimeter of the exterior of the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy, N.Y. Thursday August 15, 2002, as seen from an official vehicle. Confined sex offenders have access to COVID-19 vaccine because they are in the state s mental health system.Times Union archive
MARCY Thousands of inmates in New York s prisons have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, despite outbreaks and federal guidance that urges people in crowded, congregate living situations be inoculated against the virus.
How 100 years of the Democratic rule has shaped the city of Albany
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Albany County Democratic boss Dan O Connell, undated. (Bernie Kolenberg, Times Union archives/Courtesy William Kennedy)
ALBANY One can argue whether the Albany Democratic machine was good or evil or how much of it remains today, but this much is indisputable: It has etched itself into American political history as one for the ages.
It has been 100 years since the O’Connell-Corning Democratic machine seized control of City Hall in 1921 by defeating the entrenched Barnes Republican machine. The Democrats have not relinquished power since.
Albany ranks first as the longest run of uninterrupted Democratic rule, longer than Boston (since 1930), Chicago (1931), St. Louis (1949), Philadelphia (1951), Buffalo (1962) or any other deep-blue city in the nation.