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When the same old thing seems no longer to be working, it could well be time to try something new. This kind of thinking has long been employed in man...

ALBANY (TNS) — The Board of Regents wants all 4-year-olds to have free preschool by 2030 and then expand that to all 3-year-olds by 2035. In a budget ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Two years ago, I wrote a column proclaiming the evils of the college-loan racket. The federal government should cancel student debt, I ...

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

There are many words that fit this moment, but I will choose the simple and the obvious: “finally.” Finally, the statewide mask mandate on students in...

ALBANY (TNS) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino appeared on Fox News this week after obtaining video displaying immigrant teenagers exi...

From fighting the menace of TB to a lull in deer hunters, from a crushing defeat in the Olean-Bradford rivalry to local teams netting state titles, he...

With the threat of another government shutdown averted by the raise of the debt ceiling level, all is well — or is it? This was the 79th time since 19...

When the Biden administration proposed allowing the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug prices earlier this year, the nonpartisan Congressio...

ALBANY — The federal government’s count of the COVID-19 death toll in New York has 11,000 more victims than the tally publicized by the administration...

Voter fraud in this country should not simply be dismissed as a crackpot concern. I have to have ID to do almost anything, why should voting be any di...

It’d be fitting if Democrats undertook a radical procedural step to pass a radical piece of legislation. That’s what the left is pressuring Senate Dem...

The decisions (or the lack thereof) that made Texas’ power grid vulnerable to the calamitous winter storm that left millions without heat and water ar...

New York school districts will have to give assessment tests to students this year, but they will be allowed to delay or change the tests, the federal...

Back in December, during a virtual meeting with progressive organizations, then-President-elect Joe Biden insisted that he would abide by constitution...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to pay New York $934 million to cover the projected statewide costs of administe...

By Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s estimate, New York faces a $15 billion budget shortfall. So why is the state so hesitant to look for revenue where it obviously...

NEW YORK — Winter has brought New York’s worst stretch of the coronavirus crisis since May, with at least 4,800 dead from COVID-19 in the past 30 days...