Opinion

Republicans promised a red wave last November and then got faces full of egg. The precarious margin of control of the House, and the failure of Republ...

The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules...

Rowan Wilson, who for six years has sat on the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, is highly qualified to be the next chief judge an...

With this year’s federal income tax deadline looming, the Internal Revenue Service has detailed its modernization plan that Congress has enabled with ...

If you feel like drag queens are ubiquitous these days, you aren’t wrong. Whether it’s public libraries, advertisements or award shows, it seems like ...

Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will bo...

Between today and April 23, 15 days from now, Gov. Hochul is required by law to nominate one of the seven highly qualified lawyers on a list to be the...

Two weeks ago we saw a win and a loss for health care. North Carolina became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That’s a...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Maybe it is because I am preparing to launch one of my children off to college, but I have been thinking a lot about inflection...

Four years after passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York state officials have finally begun to take a close look at t...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is growing, and getting stronger as it does. It now has 31 member states. This makes the alliance, created in 1...

With budget talks between Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs not r...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — “This seems to be more about the person than about the crime.” — Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. The senator’s raising the right question...

Warm weather must be coming on because it was recently time for my sister-in-law and I to review the annual applications for the Gordy Wuethrich Memor...

I have watched with dismay as lawmakers, local jurisdictions, and my fellow citizens have jumped on the emotional bandwagon of vilifying Eddie Kindt, ...

ALBANY (TNS) — If at first you don’t succeed, get the lines redrawn so you win next time. That seems to be the message from Democrats who are quietly ...

Alvin Bragg, the local district attorney in Manhattan who has led the effort to indict former President Donald Trump, is an elected official. He ran f...

The American Public Health Association celebrates the successes of public health organizations around the country the first full week in April each ye...