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FARMERSVILLE — The Farmersville Town Board has voted to table a resolution asking the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Envir...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul expressed concern the state’s burgeoning “Red Flag Law” could be upended by the U.S. Supreme Court, an issue she fram...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is absolutely right that it was her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, who signed into law the disastrous “reforms,” like cashless bail, tha...

Even though all the briefs have been submitted and the oral arguments were held on June 8 before an Albany appellate panel in a crazy redistricting ca...

The federal government has the power to forgive federal student loan debt. What was at issue in the two cases the United States Supreme Court recently...

The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipl...

ALBANY (TNS) — Republicans are pointing to Merriam Webster’s dictionary and a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upending the president’s student loan...

The U.S. Supreme Court is on hiatus until the first Monday of October. The docket this fall will offer the justices plenty of chances to again reinvig...

AMSTERDAM (TNS) — A wastewater treatment worker who was fired by the city of Amsterdam three years ago after testing positive for marijuana was awarde...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is supporting the bipartisan National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2023. This legislation woul...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has...

One of the problems with the Legislature only being in Albany for half the year is that they leave a lot of common-sense public safety measures on the...

The last year has shown the power of a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Conservatives had a 5-4 majority for years and were not able to...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For decades, U.S. employers and university admissions officers have wandered in a legal minefield, never fully certain whether rac...

BOSTON (TNS) — The campaign against affirmative action has reduced the complicated process of college admissions to a simple and highly inaccurate sou...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case achieved instant legendary status in certain quarters. Vice Pre...

Thursday’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision overturning a decades-old affirmative action decision that required colleges and universities to consider race i...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institu...