Opinion

ALBANY — Last month’s local school district votes were notable for what was missing from most ballots — propositions to purchase zero-emission school ...

DETROIT (TNS) — One of my early reporting assignments at The Detroit News was to wait for a couple of frigid January days in 1981 outside the Redford ...

Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...

I thought I had the perfect setup for summer — until the birds came. And the stray cat. And the squirrel. Since last fall, I have been giving my cats,...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — On Saturday, there will be a military parade in Washington in honor of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Coincidentally, the ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Protests erupted in Los Angeles and other cities, with streets filled with demonstrators clashing with police, National Guard troops ...

"To say that I’m a frustrated dairy farmer in New York state would be an understatement. I don’t understand how a bill like this even gets remotely th...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In one of the most perceptive gags in one of the best television comedies of all time, "Arrested Development," the effete therapist...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Sometimes it takes a self-indulgent public-relations stunt to remind us of what’s important. Monday’s inevitably intercepted aid flot...

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the C...

ANDOVER — Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has crashed the Irish Festival — drunk, pushy and getting in everyone’s face with some of the most obnoxious...

Raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York has created a nightmare scenario that opened statutory loopholes that prohibit law enforcement ...

ALBANY — Every session of the state Legislature brings a fresh crop of proposals that would drive up health-care costs, and 2025 is no exception. Here...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is no constituency for debt reduction, which is a fancy way of saying voters don’t care that the federal balance sheet is rough...

BOSTON (TNS) — Electric car subsidies are heading for the chopping block. A tax bill recently passed by House Republicans is set to stop billions in t...

The Olean Public Library is so much more than a place to check out books — it’s a space where families grow, kids feel seen and learning comes to life...

When I read the lowly penny was set for extinction, I got melancholy thinking of what would no longer be. First, kids will not know the excitement of ...