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Approaching a new legislative session in January, we unfortunately continue to face the same set of challenges and setbacks many of us have fought to ...

Over the past several years, I’ve written numerous times about the concerns, the pitfalls, the shortcomings and the outright unaffordability set in mo...

The beginning of November reminds us that we are fast approaching a holiday season when one of the time-honored traditions is to gather around the tab...

We’re coming off National Fire Safety and Prevention Week when numerous area fire departments throughout the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions he...

It began under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who pursued a misguided, politically driven penchant for rapidly closing state prisons, which led to overcrow...

The latest on Medicaid spending in New York comes from the state comptroller, who came out with an audit that “found close to $1.2 billion in managed ...

Sometimes in public policymaking the most important responsibility of all is to recognize a bad law and make it better, to admit that you got it wrong...

A released report from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offers a timely update on what has long been one of New York state’s most ...

The rebirth and spectacular rise of New York State’s wine and grape industry over the past generation — joined by, especially over the past decade, th...