Commentary

The State Department spent $1.2 million on upgrades to swimming pools in seven foreign countries in the last four years, according to an analysis from...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The lead singer of the alt-rock band the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus opened up a debate on free speech issues, in of all places, the New Y...

At a time when law-abiding New Yorkers are struggling to pay skyrocketing electric and utility bills, New York state shouldn’t be asking taxpayers to ...

Like a bad dream, thousands of Congressional earmarks that were thrown out during last year’s appropriation process will potentially receive federal f...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A friend who develops affordable housing in and around Pittsburgh once told me about a young woman who was interested in buying a s...

Editor's note: The writer is addressing the question, "Are summer vacations too long?" This op-ed follows Randall Bloomquist's "How summer vacation be...

A Louisiana woman was arrested and charged with fraud last month after allegedly underreporting her income to qualify for Medicaid. The state Bureau o...

As states like Mississippi proceed with social media age verification laws, technology is in the crosshairs. Social media’s adverse effects are no lon...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Not long after members of the Public Service Commission congratulated themselves Thursday for paring back National Grid’s rate increa...

DECATUR, Ga. (TNS) — Contrary to a widely held perception, public school summer vacations are not getting shorter. And that’s a shame. Despite some mo...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Right now, something in your home may be talking to your child about sex, self-harm, and suicide. That something isn’t a person — i...

The Social Security Trust Fund is less than a decade away from insolvency thanks to congressional and presidential inertia. The 90-year-old retirement...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Texas officials didn’t have a problem sending thousands of migrants to New York, a sanctuary state, when the desperate asylum seekers...

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 ...

Tax-advantaged employer-sponsored retirement savings accounts hit a milestone not long ago: At least half of all private sector U.S. workers now parti...

There are about 160,000 gas stations in the United States, the vast majority of them built and run through the private sector to maximize efficiency a...

For the last 10 years, it’s been difficult for Democrats to win elections unless the campaigns center on Donald Trump. But the arrival of Zohran Mamda...

Columbia University’s Middle East Institute received $4 million in federal grants to train future government employees, and spent part of it on payrol...