constitution

ALBANY (TNS) — New Yorkers will go the polls in November to decide if a “green amendment” should be added to the state constitution. But if it passes,...

ALBANY — New York cannot cut down thousands of trees for a 27-mile snowmobile trail in the Adirondack Park without voters approving an amendment to th...

The Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump is unprecedented: It’s the first time a president has been tried twice, and the first time an ex-presid...

House Democratic impeachment managers have delivered to the Senate a single, hastily passed article of impeachment against former President Trump. A t...

Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing to remove him from office after...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Constitution has long prohibited New York from taking on debt without first seeking approval from voters, but through a proce...

The odes and elegies to Ruth Bader Ginsburg have proceeded apace, seemingly endless and inexhaustible and essentially banal. We do this with heroic Am...

Recently, a group of college students challenged me, asking, “Why are you conservatives so into the Constitution and all this ‘originalist’ stuff?” In...

CANANDAIGUA (TNS) — Suppose the power of New York’s governor was reduced and instead rivaled that of the Queen of England — basically a figurehead. Th...

The Constitution forbids government from abridging freedom of speech and of the press. But we, the people, have no such prohibition, because free inqu...

By CHRIS STANLEY Special to the Olean Times Herald Lovers of the U.S. Constitution should be concerned — very concerned — about the arguments that Pre...

ALBANY — A lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in Albany on Wednesday argues that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul were illegally given...

As we celebrate the Fourth of July in the U.S., we celebrate our ancestors who won independence from British rule. We also celebrate our Constitution ...

Rick Miller’s story, “Reed won’t join Democrats to block Trump’s national emergency declaration” (Feb. 23 edition of the Times Herald), once again cap...

In the nearly 30 years I have covered or looked up past history about the city governments of Olean and Bradford, Pa., one thing that seems to get flo...

Only one in three Americans (36 percent) can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of items taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test, which has ...

ALBANY — New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says that state-funded debt is projected to grow to $63.7 billion within months. That works out to more ...

Today voters determine whether New York state should hold a constitutional convention, a vote mandated every 20 years. Initially adopted in 1894, Arti...