Opinion

Put stop to hysteria: Biden must address drone mystery
Commentary, Nation World, New York
TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Dec 17, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — It's getting like "War of the Worlds" out there, with none of us knowing fact from fiction when it comes to these mystery drones. And...
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Change the nation’s fiscal course
Commentary, Nation World
Dec 16, 2024
David Walkerran the Government Accountability Office for a decade, under both a Republican and Democratic president. Elected officials should take him...
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Trump can bring peace
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Dec 13, 2024
Among the more outlandish claims that Democrats and progressives made when Donald Trump first ran for president back in 2016 was that he would, as an ...
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Violence in NY prisons is rising
Commentary, New York
ASSEMBLYMAN WILL BARCLAY 
Dec 13, 2024
Violence in state prisons has reached another record high, and there are no signs this growing crisis will slow down anytime soon. Inmate-on-inmate as...
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Ms. Hochul goes to the grocery store
Commentary, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Dec 13, 2024
ALBANY (TNS) — I wasn't among the media members who gathered to watch Gov.Kathy Hochulshop for groceries on Tuesday, but I don't figure I missed much....
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The ‘fair share’ paid by the wealthy
Commentary, Nation World
Dec 12, 2024
Progressives who argue that “the rich” should pay their “fair share” of income taxes are inadvertently arguing they should get a tax cut. The IRS rece...
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Preparing food is a love language
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH 
Dec 12, 2024
Stirring up a batch of almond-flavored buttercream for cookies recently stirred up thoughts of some women I have known. Many men cook as well. Like me...
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Hochul wants to spend the same billions twice
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
KEN GIRARDIN 
Dec 12, 2024
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to mail $500 checks to millions of households has a problem: the sales tax “surplus” she wants to dish out doesn’t exist. Hoc...
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New York City jury acquits Penny
Commentary, Nation World
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Dec 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s no surprise that a jury of his peers acquittedDaniel Penny, 26, Monday on a charge of criminally negligent homicide that stemm...
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