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People know receiving medical care can be stressful. Whether you’re nervous about a procedure, frustrated at the wait time for an appointment or visit...

In a good fall, the color explosions nurture something in our souls in these Enchanted Mountains, as Chamber and tourism promoters dubbed our area bac...

Coronavirus pandemic recommendations and decisions are a mixed bag. You never really know what you will pull out. Reach in and you might get a real tr...

ALBANY (TNS) — Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General of the United States. How does that sound? It might sound as melodious as Swedish death metal to some of...

As if having his music reduced to ringtones wasn’t insult enough, the great Ludwig van Beethoven himself has now become a political football in the ca...

The odes and elegies to Ruth Bader Ginsburg have proceeded apace, seemingly endless and inexhaustible and essentially banal. We do this with heroic Am...

y Cass R. Sunstein Tribune News Service Here is a paradox. It is pretty easy to predict the voting patterns of new Supreme Court justices. But it can ...

Maybe Gov. Andrew Cuomo just doesn’t want New Yorkers to get President Trump’s jobless benefits. The state’s lame excuses for its failure to ensure th...

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has long argued for a simpler version of what he calls the “dreaded” Free Application for Federal Student Aid form. The...

Is the relationship between President Donald Trump and farm country starting to go bad? At first glance, things have never been better. According to r...

For many progressive opinion-makers, the only way to save the Supreme Court is to destroy it. They believe the best response to the Republican-held Se...

The status between Israel and Bahrain is no longer ambiguous. Less than a month after the United Arab Emirates forged a peace agreement with the Jewis...

SARATOGA SPRINGS (TNS) — Professor David Peterson says Skidmore College has decided not to discipline him after his brief attendance at a "Back the Bl...

In 2015, at a Harvard University luncheon held in her honor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked what advice she would give young women today. “Fight for th...

The wildfires in the West have burned up millions of acres, taken dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, cost enormous amounts of money to com...

Many restaurants pipe in music as a backdrop while patrons dine. In some, I’ve found, the music is subtle, almost unnoticeable, like what we call “ele...

In just days, we’ll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans will praise her qualifications, her intellect, he...

Donald Trump’s history of denigrating our country’s brave service men and women and his praise for dangerous dictators endanger the security of our mi...