Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — Cities such as New York and Chicago are in deep financial trouble. Broadly speaking, they have two options: Make the difficult but ap...

BOSTON (TNS) — Just when you thought Democrats couldn’t sink any lower, along comes retread Kamala Harris to kiss the ring of Al Sharpton and adopt a ...

OLEAN — The Olean Public Library announced that its 2027 proposed budget is available on the library’s website, oleanlibrary.org/about/administration/...

DALLAS (TNS) — The headlines this week are bursting with news of a fragile cease-fire in the Iran war. Pundits and politicians claim it's either an hi...

If you read the headlines, it’s easy to be discouraged about the American economy. If you follow the trend lines, it’s difficult not to be more optimi...

America often prepares for the war it has just fought. Today, the Pentagon is preparing for the next war, in real time, under fire, against the clock....

The most important number in the United States is $193.6 trillion. That’s how much extra money will be needed to fund Social Security and Medicare ind...

Student test scores aren’t looking good, and schools aren’t being held accountable for poor results. That’s not even considering whether the right thi...

For more than 200 years, public health has reshaped what is possible in the United States — adding decades to life expectancy and significantly improv...

Among the issues being negotiated in the overdue state budget is a reversal of state pension reforms enacted 14 years ago to rein in fast-growing reti...

ALBANY — New York State lawmakers steered tens of millions of dollars in pork barrel spending to pet projects last year, according to a new report by ...

When my husband Jack and I started our driving trip from the East Coast to the West, we were delighted to find ourselves in Kentucky, home of Gethsema...

President Donald Trump’s foes had a field day over the weekend when Iran downed two American planes, an F-15E Strike Eagle and an A-10 Warthog. But ma...

Four astronauts are on a journey around the moon, a mission that offers a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly. On...

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, “Many people — they’re j...

Well into the second week without a new state budget in place, we’re continuing the fight to keep attention focused on the No. 1 issue facing many of ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Republican crack-up is coming — not over the Iran war and not today. But the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a harbinger...

ALBANY — We recently marked the sixth anniversary of a fateful moment in New York’s coronavirus pandemic: the Cuomo administration’s order sending Cov...