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Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the...

ALBANY — New York’s Democrat-controlled Legislature will make key decisions in 2022 on everything from the roll-out of recreational marijuana sales to...

SCHENECTADY (TNS) — Saving the best for (nearly) last, Sen. Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer touched down in Schenectady on Sunday to close out one ...

ALBANY — Members of the New York Assembly’s Judiciary Committee began reading copies of a report on Thursday that delves into allegations against form...

It’s time to fall back, folks. The end of Daylight Saving Time arrives Sunday morning when we turn our clocks back an hour. The change actually happen...

VICTOR (AP) — A former Republican lawmaker who resigned from a leadership post in the New York state Assembly after a drunken-driving arrest pleaded g...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Criminal justice reform advocates and some state lawmakers have been working to change Pennsylvania’s probation system for years, a...

Pennsylvania's opioid disaster declaration was set to expire at the end of Wednesday after state lawmakers, newly empowered to help manage statewide e...

Republican members of the New York Senate and Assembly warn that potential impacts of state Democrats’ climate legislation could increase the cost of ...

Remember the Texas Democrats? Last month, 51 Democratic state lawmakers boarded private planes in Austin, headed for Washington, D.C. Their purpose wa...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dug in for the fight of his political life despite the threat of potential criminal investigations and widespr...

ALBANY — Two New York lawmakers introduced a bill Friday to extend the state’s eviction moratorium until Oct. 31 in light of the state’s failure to se...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers added $250,000 in funding Wednesday for studies to help determine if a site near Franklinville is suitabl...

Change can be hard and it can be scary. But, it also can be promising. Because with change comes opportunity. That’s the spirit that must be tapped as...

ALBANY (TNS) — More than two dozen Democratic state senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week calling for them to ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Some Democratic lawmakers are looking to allow student athletes at universities in New York to collectively bargain and form their own ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pressured lawmakers Thursday to reach agreement by next week on a pair of massive domestic spending ...

ALBANY — Lawmakers on the New York Assembly’s Judiciary Committee said Wednesday they will issue subpoenas to compel documents and sworn statements fr...