Local Columnists

Late in 2020 several aspiring health care professionals studying at St. Bonaventure University shared a snapshot of why they chose health care as a pr...

New York is in week eight of COVID vaccinations. In hindsight, it’s clear neither city nor state were ready to efficiently, equitably distribute the l...

Ever since President Joe Biden gave his inaugural address calling for “unity,” it has been a common theme of opinion columns, news stories and social ...

President Joe Biden has proved that, if nothing else, he has a pen and a phone. According to The Economist, he signed more executive orders in his fir...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has decreed that higher-risk high school sports can start playing on Feb. 1, so long as officials in...

It’s the most important number you’ve never heard of, and President Joe Biden is about to change it as he resets U.S. environmental policy. It’s the s...

House Democratic impeachment managers have delivered to the Senate a single, hastily passed article of impeachment against former President Trump. A t...

Within hours of taking office, President Joe Biden announced a resumption of funding for the World Health Organization as well as participation in the...

I have vaccine envy. There. I’ve confessed it. The thought of getting a COVID-19 vaccine makes me impatient, greedy, needy. I yearn for a vaccine the ...

By Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s estimate, New York faces a $15 billion budget shortfall. So why is the state so hesitant to look for revenue where it obviously...

Long a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the American media is now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among j...

Unsurprisingly, road traffic in 2020 was significantly depressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as Americans around the country sheltered at home to so...

President Joe Biden presents two essential values to the nation: unity and truth. Whether Americans accept them is, of course, another matter. Biden g...

Inaugural addresses are meant to be aspirational, so President Joe Biden might as well have doubled down on his call for unity in his address. After t...

Soon after an inaugural speech in which he talked about the need for the nation to unify in order to meet interlocking crises, Joe Biden got to work g...

Change can be hard. We’ve had to embrace, or at least adapt to, a lot this past year. Being in the clutches of pandemic circumstances brought requirem...

It was a thing of beauty: a light blue, shining sky, a magnificent hymn, a powerful benediction, poetry, patriotic music and a speech in which Preside...

President Joe Biden, in his inaugural address, talked about what ails us — divisiveness and demonization. He talked about the one great goal: Unity. T...