Commentary

NEW YORK (TNS) — A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the...

We like to associate the law with justice — protecting the innocent and punishing the wrongdoers. But sometimes our laws punish the innocent and prote...

When we look out across the rolling hills of Allegany County, it is easy to see only a beautiful, quiet countryside. But to hydrologists and geographe...

For more than a century, Catholic Charities of Buffalo has stood beside our neighbors in their most difficult moments — offering not just assistance, ...

A bill to replace the words "mother" and "father" in state law has advanced in the New York State Assembly. Mother would be replaced with “gestating p...

Starbucks is getting a “venti” sized handout from the state of Tennessee to build a new corporate office in Nashville. The company will receive $30 mi...

It has become increasingly hard to use the word integrity when describing college athletics, and much of that is the NCAA's own doing. Unimaginably, t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Reports of a Republican congressional revolt — like Mark Twain once famously said of a false newspaper report of his death — are gr...

I have watched other people with their pets and their shared lives seem simple compared to mine! I suppose it’s not really true, because when you shar...

For years, New Yorkers have been stuck paying some of the highest auto insurance premiums in the country. Families already struggling with the cost of...

A New York state tax exemption for data center equipment enacted in 2000, early in the evolution of the internet, could end up costing today’s taxpaye...

President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion budget request for the military is by far the largest in U.S. history, but under a law passed during Trump’s fi...

Legislation that increases New York’s pharmacy costs by hundreds of millions of dollars annually was passed in Albany’s end-of-session rush and now aw...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job ...

Pride in being an American drops the younger you get, a new Quinnipiac poll confirms — a fact that confirms what a terrible job older generations have...

Drafted in 1968, Rich Doran served two years in the U.S. Army, deployed to Germany because surviving sons weren't sent to Vietnam, and after basic tra...

Con artists steal millions every year from vulnerable Americans, but it increasingly appears that the real money is in ripping off U.S. taxpayers. As ...

The results of a survey on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “bell-to-bell” statewide ban on smartphones in school during its first academic year were exactly as we...