Opinion

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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One of New York’s greatest success stories
Commentary, Opinion
By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Jul 30, 2025
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...
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How to pack for a trip
Commentary, Opinion
By JERRY ZEZIMA Tribune News Service 
Jul 30, 2025
I’m a guy who likes to travel the world. Unfortunately, I can do so only if I sit in front of the TV and watch celebrities like Stanley Tucci eat and ...
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America’s pricey birthday parties
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 29, 2025
America will turn 250 years old next year, and taxpayers will fund one of the most expensive birthday gifts in history. President Trump’s “One Big Bea...
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The other fentanyl threat requires readiness
Commentary, Opinion
By BRAD WENSTRUP RealClearPolitics 
Jul 29, 2025
It’s the nightmare scenario few in Washington want to talk about — and even fewer are prepared to confront — and that is the use of illicit fentanyl a...
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More rescissions headed to Congress?
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 28, 2025
The Trump administration promised that the $9 billion rescission package Congress passed this month on spending for foreign aid and government broadca...
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‘Low-value’ Medicare treatments
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 28, 2025
An estimated 37% of Medicare patients received a “low-value” health care service in 2023, costing the federal government $5.9 billion. The numbers com...
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Why Jeffrey Epstein matters
Commentary, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Jul 28, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On a Parisian street corner in the 1780s, you'd be approached by a pamphleteer stoking the political rage that would culminate in t...
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Beware, leaders — AI is the ultimate yes-man
Commentary, Opinion
By GAUTAM MUKUNDA Bloomberg Opinion 
Jul 25, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — I grew up watching the tennis greats of yesteryear with my dad, but have only returned to the sport recently thanks to another family...
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Strikes on Iran appear more and more effective
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 25, 2025
In the wake of the U.S. airstrikes against Iran last month, President Donald Trump called the operation a “spectacular military success” that “complet...
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Are self-help books really helping us?
Commentary, Opinion
By RANJU KUNWOR Chicago Tribune 
Jul 24, 2025
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change ...
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The argument for ending wind and solar subsidies
Commentary, Opinion
By DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH and RYAN STRASSER 
Jul 24, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act signals a major shift in federal energy policy. Among its provisions, the law accele...
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