Local Columnists

Woody Allen said 90% of life is showing up. Donald Trump is proving that he overshot the mark considerably. The former president has paid no discernib...

State Sen. George Borrello is turning into the litigious lawmaker all of a sudden. Twice in the span of three days it was Borrello’s legal arguments m...

How deceased bodies (remains) are cared for is one of the latest issues to be examined through an environmental lens. For example, last December, New ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Do drugs the right way, the safe way. We’ll even help you. That’s been New York City’s message in the face of what has been one of th...

The continuing incursion of illegal border crossers into the United States is the most astonishing story in American politics. There have been days re...

Isn’t fall magnificent? Once in a while, we like to drive around a bit and sightsee — usually on cloudy or rainy days, though, because I have problems...

Whenever road work season comes along, it amazes me how many streets have an entire layer of history buried underneath several inches of asphalt. Each...

Poor Kamala Harris. The alleged misogyny that is tearing at her vice presidency apparently extends to highly partisan Democratic leaders such as Jamie...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In a world where war is waging, disease is ravaging, poverty is crippling and homelessness is out of control, does it really matter a...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Former President Donald Trump is on the campaign trail again, and most of the attention he’s getting is for bare-knuckled attacks o...

When President Joe Biden urged world leaders on Tuesday not to diminish support for Ukraine, he used a phrase whose importance you may have missed. Sp...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Parents are trying to get books banned in schools around the country, it’s frequently pointed out, and one thing you might do is sh...

I heard the conversation drift over the top of an aisle in the store. I had just seen an older woman perusing the vast array of hair products as I whe...

ALBANY (TNS) — Jeanette Miller’s comments to the Cannabis Control Board last week were raw, unfiltered and brutally honest. “I feel like I’m going to ...

The legacy of John Fetterman is now set — he’s the guy who made it possible to dress like a slob.What the Missouri Compromise was to Henry Clay, what ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Polls show that Americans are pessimistic about the economy, with inflation as the top concern. That’s understandable, but do they ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — They couldn’t have screwed this up any worse if they tried. It should have been simple for New York to set up its legal weed market: ...

It was one of the weirdest stories in years. The U.S. military lost a state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jet, last seen flying pilotless over North Charles...