New York

NEW YORK (TNS) — When is a ban on gas stoves not a ban on gas stoves? When New York lawmakers want to tell you that it isn’t. They can frame it any wa...

Voting is generally pretty easy and convenient, especially if the polling locations are centrally located and near where you live, and if you have tra...

Last week, after hawkish testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, markets penciled in a half-point increase in interest rates following the...

The demise of Silicon Valley Bank has put the U.S. government into an uncomfortable position, backstopping depositors like never before to prevent a b...

It’s Sunshine Week, a nationwide annual occurrence when open government advocates and the press push for greater transparency in how the public’s busi...

When we talk about the need for government transparency and the battle to keep government open and honest, there’s a part of the conversation that’s u...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to lift a cap on charter schools. That’s a good idea, albeit a rather modest one, but you wouldn’t know it by t...

Thanks to the presence of George Santos (or Anthony Devolder or any other alias the con man may be using) being a freshman member of Congress from New...

After years of effort from this column and elsewhere, in 2010 Congress created the World Trade Center Health Program and then in 2015 voted to keep it...

ALBANY (TNS) — David Soares and I have had our differences and disagreements over the years, but I would certainly acknowledge that he’s worth hearing...

It’s a bidding war in Albany when it comes to boosting the state’s minimum wage — with the needs of New York’s economy, and of the vast illegal-migran...

Living in a changing climate, it does no good yelling at the sky. COVID’s work-from-home revolution is just such a climate change: Millions of employe...

The Democratic-led state Senate violated the New York Constitution and the law and yesterday they admitted it. Tomorrow, they should be so castigated ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to hand the Buffalo Bills $650 million for a new stadium was an absurdly generous giveaway, but at least w...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. All Americans should...

Some Republicans have entreated House GOP leaders: Can’t we get rid of this guy? Can’t we just kick him out? The guy, of course, is Rep. George Santos...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There has been a four-fold increase in smoke shop robberies in New York City between the first and second years of recreational weed ...

Someone had to sue to force the derelict New York State Senate to fulfill its clear legal duty under the state Constitution and New York statute to vo...