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Local municipalities saw mixed sales tax receipts in April, the state’s fiscal watchdog reported this week. The Office of the State Comptroller report...

ALFRED — Alfred State College is building a bigger and better campus to accommodate more students in consecutive fall cohorts. Construction investment...

The S&P 500 is down more than 5% since Joe Biden’s inauguration, and the Dow Jones Industrial more than 4%. The Federal Reserve is ratcheting up inter...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Spotted lanternflies don't bite, sting or transmit human diseases. Although considered harmful to some tree species, their degree o...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — China’s economy is in trouble. The juggernaut that once looked bound for global domination is slowing down — and not only in the s...

WAUSAU, Wis. — The reminder, every time they drive down the street, of how high gasoline prices are. The delays in home construction and renovation be...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has finally admitted how badly she underestimated the inflationary threat last year. Although President Joe Biden hims...

Compassion is so, so important if civilization is to rise to the heights most of us wish for, but compassion without wisdom can produce Karl Marx comm...

U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an intolerable horror from the start. It has escalated into a genocide in what amounts to a terror campaign to subdue...

The opening of farmers markets are in many locales a harbinger of spring. But these retail marketplaces provide more than a reminder that warmer weath...

COLONIE (TNS) — The war in Ukraine will likely hit Americans in the pocketbook for a long time to come, and people are consequently planning to cut ba...

Joe Biden is engaged in the most extensive test of whether an American president can survive elevated levels of inflation since Jimmy Carter, and it’s...

WASHINGTON — The United States, European Union and United Kingdom on Saturday agreed to put in place crippling sanctions on the Russian financial sect...

Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines for C...

President Joe Biden has the misfortune to be president at the moment when corporate America has decided to get together and gouge American consumers. ...

There is precious little President Biden can do to tame inflation, aside from using the limited tools in the White House toolbox to try to get things ...

“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” the economist Thomas Sowell once said. Looking at the way prices are rapidly...