Moving General Schuyler
The national debate over how to commemorate the nation’s past came to Albany this spring when Mayor Kathy Sheehan announced her intention to move the statue of Philip Schuyler—Revolutionary War genera...
4 Sep 202043min
Tiz Mania!
Once in a while a thoroughbred comes along who blows away the field, securing a glorious place in racing history. Names like American Pharaoh and Secretariat come to mind. Tiz the Law, a New York-bre...
28 Aug 202019min
School Daze
Capital Region educators, school leaders, stakeholders and parents are feverishly planning for the start of the school year amid an uncertain landscape. On this episode of The Eagle, Times Union educa...
21 Aug 202038min
Curtain up, mask up!
Live theater is back in the Berkshires this week. The only two theater companies in the country that have the blessing of the Actors Equity Association opened shows there, and the Times Union's top th...
14 Aug 202042min
Quarantine 101
College students from out of town have returned to campuses all over the Capital Region this week. But classes won't be starting just yet. Instead, they're electing to quarantine in their dorm rooms o...
7 Aug 202039min
The Drive-Thru Wake
We use the concept of a "drive-thru" for many aspects of modern life - i.e. for food, for banking, for coffee - but the pandemic has opened up a new avenue for a funeral home in Ballston Lake. Reporte...
31 Juli 202031min
Shots fired
A recent surge in gun violence in Albany and across New York led senior editor Brendan Lyons to investigate the cause. What he found was not what he expected - that teenagers are doing most of the sh...
24 Juli 202035min
Lost & Found
When a Vietnamese-born American woman from Virginia got some very unexpected results from a genetic test, it led her on a journey north to the Adirondacks, where she found a father and a family she ne...
17 Juli 202027min
