Opinion

Recent statements put out by our elected representatives have left me feeling disheartened, as it seems that our representatives in Albany are upset t...

Just about two years ago, Allegany County Legislature Chairman W. Brooke Harris and Legislator Janice Burdick vocally opposed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s atte...

DETROIT (TNS) — Democrats lost the fall election by allowing themselves to be tagged as the party of inflation and illegal immigration. They seem boun...

Thanks to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court decision to grant him untethered carte blanche to do whatever he wishes without repercussions, he has...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Trump gives, and Trump takes away. That is the sentiment felt by many conservative Catholics after the president announced a...

After reading "Trump Continues to be a Threat to Our Dedmocracy" by Martha Tillinger in the Feb. 8 edition of the Times Herald, I thought, "Here we go...

ALBANY (TNS) — In New York's long and storied history, one Schenectady native has been governor. That's Joseph Yates, who served a two-year term in th...

I confess: I’ve always had back-handed respect for public sector workers. It seemed to me they had figured out how to earn decent money with great ben...

The U.S. Agency for International Development sent $1.3 billion in foreign assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, the world’s f...

NEW YORK — When it comes to presidential politics, it’s a billionaire’s world. President Donald Trump’s campaign was buoyed by a few megadonors. It mi...

The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...

Director of National IntelligenceTulsi Gabbardis going to bat for civil liberties against the overreaching British government. Earlier this month, the...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was surprised to hear the three men I was talking to praise the Danish welfare state. A friend had invited me to the opening rece...

Staying on top of everything the Marvel Cinematic Universe does has become impossible for the average moviegoer. Right from the opening, “Brave New Wo...

Rep. Nick Langworthy is sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the laws of our country and to serve his constituents. He is doing none of these things...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When aCBS Newsmedical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her co...

The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emis...

The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020...