Foreword: When the Newspaper Needed to Speak from Its Soul Rex Smith Introduction Howard Healy ALBANY Introduction: The City That Jim Embraced Howard Healy The Race Is On in Albany, January 16, 1997 A Sad Note on Lark Street, February 19, 1997 Slayings Tarnish Soil of Albany''s Great Park, December 26, 1997 Drop This Case, April 27, 1998 Come Clean, Mr. Jennings, July 10, 1998 . A Defeat for the Machine, September 17, 1998 Albany''s Hot-Dog Politics, April 5, 1999 Justice for Ms. McEneny, May 7, 1999 Time to Right a Wrong: President Bush Should Award the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Henry Johnson, April 24, 2001 Renewing Democracy Is Humbling, September 28, 2001 Jennings, Who Else? November 4, 2001 Outsiders Defy Odds in Albany, November 10, 2001 Whose City Is It? May 10, 2002 Albany''s Anguish, January 3, 2004 It''s All about the Guns, June 18, 2008 Audit the Ghosts, January 20, 2009 Jerry Jennings''s Fifth Term, Fall 2009 Memories of Larks at a Tavern, May 6, 2011 POLITICS Introduction: Jim McGrath Loved Politics Howard Healy LOCAL Preaching to the Faithful, March 17, 1995 All Eyes on Albany, December 22, 1999 Uneasy Justice, December 29, 2003 NEW YORK A Voting Outrage, May 19, 2001 Voter Beware, November 8, 2005 Transcript of As It Happens Interview on Eliot Spitzer''s Resignation, March 12, 2008 It''s Senator Clinton, November 8, 2000 NATIONAL Farewell, Mister Speaker, January 9, 1994 Some Names Worth Hearing Once Again, November 16, 2002 INTERNATIONAL A Chance for Peace in Ulster, May 22, 1997 Mr. Adams and Mr. Blair, December 20, 1997 Ireland''s Peace Must Prevail, August 20, 1998 George Mitchell, Peacemaker, October 22, 1998 Day of Terror, September 12, 2001 The Day After, September 13, 2001 Rising from the Ruins One Year Later, A Pause to Ponder How We Have Changed, September 11, 2002 SOCIAL JUSTICE Introduction: A Certain Faith in Humanity Bill Federman More Unabomber Injustice, May 18, 1997 Cold Weather, Cold Truths, September 28, 1997 A Lesson Taught Too Late, July 20, 2001 Homeless in Albany, November 25, 2002 "No Room for Mercy," September 5, 2003 Injustice, February 15, 2006 A Proud Day for New York, June 26, 2011 The World Owes So Much to Mandela, December 7, 2013 JOURNALISM Introduction: McGrath Thought That Newspapers Ought to Tell the Truth Dan Lynch Royko Was the Real People''s Court, May 1, 1997 J. Anthony Lukas, June 10, 1997 Finding Fame in Telling Fibs, July 10, 1998 Mike Barnicle''s Sad Fall from Grace to Disgrace, August 8, 1998 Editorial and Op-Ed Page Critique of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram , August 1999 Reality Check at Skidmore, November 16, 1999 SPORTS Introduction: A Red Sox Fan Above All Phillip Blanchard Introduction: "Hey, Jim, How Does Yaz Spell His Name?" Howard Healy A Spectator''s View from the Seats, July 23, 1995 Stanford''s Band of Cruel Fools, October 15, 1997 Sox Appeal, June 20, 2004 Thanks for the Memories, February 20, 1999 How ''Bout Those Sawx? October 22, 2004 Why Didn''t He Do More? November 10, 2011 I''ll BE HOME Introduction: A Man at Last at Peace with Himself Darryl McGrath Somebody''s Thinking of Charlie McGrath, June 20, 1993 A Road to New Hampshire, December 25, 1994 Soldiering On: Another Generation, Another War, Another Cause to Honor and Remember, May 26, 2002 "Journeys Like Mine Should Never Really End," 2006 "I''ll Be Home": Statement about My Work and My Goals, 2011 A Vanishing Call of the Wild, August 10, 2009 Boston, the Bulgers and Me, August 19, 2013 Small Town''s Appeal Crosses Generations: Cooperstown Sparks Musings of the Past and the Future, August 30, 2013 APPRECIATIONS Jim McGrath''s Albany Fred LeBrun Jim McGrath: A Newspaperman Robert Whitcomb APPENDIX Meet My Not-So-Silent Partner, June 11, 1996 Dan Lynch Times Union Editorial Writer Appointed, November 7, 1996 Guild Mourns the Loss of Jim McGrath, September 5, 2013 McGrath''s Keen Eye, Passion Recalled: Times Union ''s Chief Editorial Writer, 56, Died While Vacationing, September 6, 2013 Steve Barnes James M. McGrath, 1957-2013, September 8, 2013 Times Union Editorial Board Obituary, September 12, 2013 Darryl McGrath Eulogy, September 14, 2013 Darryl McGrath Remembering Albany''s Voice of Reason, October 4, 2013 Lauren Mineau Empowered to Do the Right Thing, December 7, 2013 Darryl McGrath Acknowledgments Index.