Commentary

Healthy living helps the aging brain
Commentary, Opinion
By LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 08, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes a compelling case that a healthy lifestyle does an agi...
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Improper Covid grants ignored by SBA
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 07, 2025
The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544 million of improper payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, but t...
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US-Canada marriage in need of therapy
Commentary, Opinion
By DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Aug 05, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Can this marriage be saved? Relations between Canada and President Donald Trump were icy before Trump boosted U.S. tariffs on a tra...
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The Fed has resisted Trump on interest rates
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 05, 2025
The Federal Reserve resisted pressure from the White House last week and left its policy rate unchanged. It was the right decision. As Chair Jerome Po...
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The left’s harping hostility drives men to Trump
Commentary, Opinion
By MATT K. LEWIS Los Angeles Times 
Aug 05, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you’re still looking for someone to blame for Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection, don’t just look at the usual suspects — the MAGA ...
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Mamdani has a lot of explaining to do to cops and NYC
Commentary, Opinion
By LEONARD GREENE New York Daily News 
Aug 05, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — When a bitter gunman stormed a Manhattan office tower last week and killed four people including an NYPD officer, wannabe mayor Zohra...
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State’s mistake could burn this NY dispensary owner
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Aug 04, 2025
SCHENECTADY (TNS) — Danny Taylor left a job he loved and gambled on a mid-life career change that promised the independence of owning a business. The ...
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U.S. Senate furniture is missing
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 04, 2025
Over the last decade, more than half the Senate office furniture purchased have some unanswered question attached to them — including where the furnit...
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Commentary, Opinion
By DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Aug 01, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — “The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!” President Donald Tru...
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Delve deeper into benefits of BBB
Commentary, Opinion
Aug 01, 2025
History predicts that Republicans will suffer losses in next year’s midterm elections, and Democrats have made clear they will try to use President Do...
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Please stop with this redistricting stupidity
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Jul 31, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — I would rather not be writing about redistricting and gerrymandering. Tooth decay, rodent migratory patterns and the Dallas Cowboys are...
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Trump should use the Russian sanctions bill
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 31, 2025
President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war. Trump has expressed increasi...
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