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Between our two families, we are raising 11 children. Under the American Families Plan, we could start collecting up to $33,600 per year in child paym...

On New Year’s Eve of 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” premiered, featuring lovable corsairs relegated to the eponymous Cornish seasi...

BELVIDERE — An online petition and in-person rally are planned to seek a halt to eminent domain proceedings for a $500 million cheese plant in Allegan...

In an ideal world powered by an ideal economy, extension of and improvements to America’s infrastructure would be developer-driven. But the ideal is s...

Great Lakes Cheese is threatening to leave the area if we don’t concede. Using eminent domain is an example of government power against private citize...

The government of Canada has imposed sanctions on nine high-ranking Russian officials for “gross and systematic human rights abuses.” The most promine...

Newspapers are celebrating Sunshine Week, an occasion revered by journalists across America but, more correctly, the gift to every American, whether t...

WASHINGTON — The nation is poised to get a third vaccine against COVID-19, but because at first glance the Johnson & Johnson shot may not be seen as e...

ALBANY (TNS) — Eleven members of the state Democratic Committee have offered a resolution to have their organization vote to formally censure Gov. And...

ALBANY (TNS) — Although coronavirus vaccine supply to New York has increased and the state is working to expand opportunities for getting the shot, th...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

If the need for universal, affordable high-speed internet service wasn’t apparent before the COVID-19 pandemic, it surely is now. So why would Gov. An...

New York is in week eight of COVID vaccinations. In hindsight, it’s clear neither city nor state were ready to efficiently, equitably distribute the l...

Ever since President Joe Biden gave his inaugural address calling for “unity,” it has been a common theme of opinion columns, news stories and social ...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello and members of the Senate Republican Conference unveiled a package of legislation Tuesday they hope will “Reset Ne...

The administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a reputation for secrecy, but even by the governor’s opaque standards the stonewalling around the issue of...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed says he will vote for presidential electors today, unlike dozens of his House Republican colleagues who have pledged try to overtur...

This is the 21st century, so far a frightening age, and we’ve just had an act of modernistic war, a hacking attack through which Russia now knows gobs...