Commentary

September is Suicide Prevention Month. What many people don’t realize is that firearms are the leading cause of suicide in the United States. More tha...

The State of Washington spent $5 billion on homelessness prevention programs over the last 12 years, but there has been little measurable impact so fa...

ALBANY (TNS) — The killing of Charlie Kirk has unleashed a torrent of debate in certain circles about the First Amendment and free speech, and some of...

A transportation agency run by the states of New York and New Jersey is paying minority-owned businesses 10% more to do the same work as other vendors...

A week before Charlie Kirk’s murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal events that have shaped this American century. We all lead...

Each article I read about the recent Great Lakes Cheese waste disposal problem continues to leave us with vague facts on cause, solutions in progress ...

“Vaccines have saved more human lives than any other medical invention in history.” — World Health Organization Words carry meaning, and oftentimes, h...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump is not as popular as he claims. But neither is he as unpopular as his opponents might like to think. That’s th...

Just because an ideology has failed repeatedly doesn’t mean it won’t attract new adherents. Witness what’s happening in New York. On Sunday, New York ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Elise Stefanik first met Charlie Kirk in 2015. At the time, she was a newly elected New York congresswoman famous, to the extent that s...

ALBANY — The National Football League kicked off its new season this month and fans tuning in to television broadcasts this fall may see their favorit...

The Veterans Health Administration has lost an estimated 5% of its reusable medical equipment worth at least $211 million — including exam tables, com...

I can’t believe what I’m seeing with my own eyes, hearing with my own ears. Some in this country, the United States of America, are celebrating the as...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — As a mother and as a New York state Assembly member, nothing weighs on me more heavily than the responsibility we share to keep our c...

Ask a high school student about the last book they read, and you may be disappointed to learn they never cracked open "The Catcher in the Rye" or trud...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The First Amendment is in a sorry state, especially on college campuses. A survey of students released last Tuesday from the Foundati...

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 ...

As chancellor of the Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy, Judith Dawson’s job was to teach other VA employees the proper way to hire contractors for ...