Content of this blog post derived from this Times Union Editor's note on Oct 31st 2025: To repeat Casey’s First Law of Public Relations: When you know it’s going to be a bad-news story, don’t make it worse by creating a transparency beef. Now, I’m not in public relations, so feel free to discount that guidance. But it’s proven to be sound advice over the course of my 35 years in journalism — including on Friday morning, when I read the initial version of Tyler A. McNeil’s art

Content of this blog post derived from this Times Union article on Nov 2nd 2025: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/north-greenbush-officials-wave-leaked-audit-s-21128541.php NORTH GREENBUSH — Town Comptroller Michael Chaires Sr. insists that North Greenbush has stemmed expenditures since a recently surfaced audit report warned of the government becoming “insolvent” if heavy fund balance spending continues. The Cusack & Company report, addressed to “the Supervisor and Me