Commentary

If I could have one wish granted in the New Year, it would be for be for a return of respect and bipartisanship in Albany to ensure that state governm...

The morning of Dec. 26, 1776, did not start according to plan. The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 Continental Army soldiers across the ...

OLEAN — With 2024 ended, the Tri-County Arts Council (TCAC) reflects with gratitude on the incredible support from our community. Together, we’ve achi...

Jimmy Carter burst on to the national political scene during difficult times. The previous years had been marked by the turbulent 1960s and Vietnam. W...

CHICAGO (TNS) — In the midst of a flurry of presidential pardons and commutations by President Joe Biden, there is talk in the White House of preempti...

He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdra...

Congress allocated at least $516 billion for federal programs with expired authorizations in fiscal year 2024, and likely far more, according to the C...

I have been a volunteer firefighter for approximately 16 years, but recently I have been unable to participate due to a medical condition. A family me...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you stacked up all of Donald Trump’s legal bills since his election in 2016, they’d reach Mars beforeElon Muskdoes. He’s paying...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My prediction that President Joe Biden would drop out was a rare bright spot among last year’s not totally serious predictions. Und...

Christopher D. Stanley

Gov. Hochul on Saturday signed an innocuous-sounding bill to “regulate the use of automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence techni...

News that President-elect Donald Trump’s team wants to hack away at the forbidding tangle ofU.S.bank regulation is welcome in the abstract. In practic...

This year,Christmas Dayand the first day ofHanukkahcoincided. At first glance, these celebrations have little in common, but a closer look reveals a p...

WASHINGTON(TNS) — PresidentJoe Bidenannounced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life in prison w...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President-elect Donald Trump’s latest promise is to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which would mean putting the U.S. on Standard Tim...

BOSTON (TNS) — Defeated Democrats have once again embarked on a pointless, post-election pursuit of their political Holy Grail — finding the votes to ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. educators better hope Santa doesn’t check test results. New results from an international comparison of K-12 students showed t...