New York

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in the health care system, and right at the top is the inadequacy of how we provide services for peopl...

In Wednesday’s historic 10-9 rejection of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nominee for chief judge, Hector LaSalle, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s radicals left ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Don’t believe Hector LaSalle’s opponents. Much of what they’re saying isn’t true. LaSalle, as you may know, is Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pick...

ALBANY (TNS) — Farm workers and New York’s legislative staffers have some things in common. They both work schedules that can be unpredictable. They b...

When, in February 2021, the temperatures in parts of Texas dropped to the low teens, crashing the power infrastructure, officials were at a loss deali...

ALBANY (TNS) — When Attorney General Letitia James released her devastating report on sexual harassment allegations against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuom...

It wasn’t such a heavy lift for the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature in 2019 to pass the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, and it ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has begun to sign or veto hundreds of bills she left until after the election, yet two she’s yet to act on are no-brainers: vetoing ...

ALBANY (TNS) — This much is clear: Kathy Hochul is the first candidate from Upstate New York to win a governor’s race in many years. How many? That de...

COLONIE (TNS) — Two years ago at this time, Don Levy was a man undergoing what he described as a public root canal. His polling outfit, the Siena Coll...

When COVID shut down America in early 2020, millions lost their jobs and the government wisely expanded unemployment insurance — its eligibility, bene...

ALBANY (TNS) — It is tempting to give Lee Zeldin credit for nearly pulling off the impossible. If someone two or three months ago had told us that a D...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I like to think I’m somewhat of a nice guy. I hold the door open for people. I let drivers in oncoming traffic make left turns in fro...

ALBANY — The governor says the state’s arrangement with Micron is a great deal for residents despite the price it will exact from the state’s taxpayer...

ALBANY (TNS) — Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate reminded me of the joke Woody Allen tells at the start of “Annie Hall.” It goes like this: Two women are...

You don’t have to like Wall Street to be worried that New York’s leadership as the global finance capital is in long-term jeopardy. The high-paying jo...

On Wednesday, in a one-sentence summary order, threeManhattanfederal appeals court judges sealedNew Yorkas a two-party state. Without explanation or e...

Time and time again during the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, invoked special executive powers in the name of a hea...