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ALBANY (TNS) — Environmental activists took a victory lap in the wake of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision last week to impose a two-year moratorium on fos...

Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s “H...

ALBANY (TNS) — Climate activists and preservationists cheered the Hochul administration’s decision to deny an air emission permit to a major cryptomin...

Jan. 10 marked the 40th anniversary of my favorite football memory. The San Francisco 49ers pulled off an 89-yard drive with an impressive play pass, ...

ALBANY (TNS) — With a 2019 state law calling for a zero carbon economy by 2040, a broad coalition of environmental and social justice activists Wednes...

Remember the media cheers for Sen. John McCain when he stopped the effort to repeal Obamacare? McCain was a Republican frustrating a Republican policy...

If you ever wondered what it was like to get pleas for help from Jewish friends in Europe as the Nazis marched in, and not be able to save them, I can...

The reason Democrats in Washington are increasingly frustrated is because their legislative ambitions far outstrip their congressional majorities. The...

ALBANY — A day after Mayor Kathy Sheehan compared Wednesday’s Black Lives Matter protest at the police department’s South Station to the Jan. 6 insurr...

The nationwide reexamination of policing after the killing of George Floyd has led an Ivy League college town in Upstate New York to consider an ambit...

ALBANY (TNS) — Young people including high school and college students have been key players in the climate change battle, with frequent rallies and c...

SARATOGA SPRINGS (TNS ) — David Peterson, an art professor at Skidmore College, says it was “civic interest and curiosity” that led him and his wife t...

The Democrats are in the midst of their quadrennial convention buoyed by polls that show the Biden-Harris ticket with a lead over President Donald Tru...

"Down with the Wall of Moms!" "Death to the Leaf-Blower Dads!" In George Orwell's classic novel "1984," members of the Outer Party stood in front of t...

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in...

ALBANY (TNS) — The State Legislature’s first joint budget hearing of the year got off to a stormy start. Protesters briefly flooded a hearing on envir...

ALBANY — This week marked the five-year anniversary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban on hydrofracking for natural gas. And while exploration firms have pret...

OLEAN — On Tuesday, a birthday will be celebrated that has been 150 years in the making. The Hindu Society of Olean and Allegany, in collaboration wit...