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Sometimes there’s just no explaining Albany. That’s really been true over the past six years of New York state government under one-party control. Tak...

New York City is one of the world’s premier tourist destinations, and visitors attending the soccer World Cup next year will likely have no trouble fi...

In the next few days, town and county tax bills will be arriving in the mail to property owners in New York state. Payments accepted in the month of J...

One of the time-honored traditions throughout this holiday season is to gather around the table to share a meal, express thanks, and count blessings i...

Roger Caiazza’s op-ed, "NY must not rely on wind, solar to meet its energy needs," might make sense if it were written in 1954, whenBell Labsannounced...

A recent Syracuse.com article on Cornell Professor Lindsay Anderson’s evaluation of the future New York electric grid ( “There’s a mind-boggling gap i...

Farmersville Town Board member Tom Callahan Jr. writes, in an op-ed in the Nov. 15 edition of the Times Herald, to urge the Cattaraugus County Industr...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is, as many of you will know, the agency that allowed a massive dump for constructio...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Researchers who study misinformation are confronting a new problem: public scorn. And it’s not just in the form of online trolling. T...

Just three weeks before the election, existential dread is descending on Democrats. As the average of both national and battleground state polls conti...

The straightforward fact remains that every time New Yorkers go the grocery store, or the gas station, or to buy back-to-school supplies for their chi...

ALBANY (TNS) — I’m sympathetic to JD Vance, perhaps naively so. He and I share broadly similar biographies, although I, admittedly, have not joined th...

New York’s effort to relieve burdens on the criminal justice system by “raising the age” of criminal responsibility is a flawed and failing policy. Yo...

Suspicions are widespread that the MTA is trying to pressure Gov. Hochul into letting congestion pricing go ahead after all by halting construction to...

Ever hop the turnstile at the subway station? Ethics aside, it’s not such a head-scratching decision. Those who do want to save a few bucks when they ...

Former first lady Laura Bush once said, “I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.” Or recall the words of former Presiden...

New York state has fewer legal cannabis dispensaries than Maryland despite having three times the population. If New Yorkers want the vibrant, booming...

Buried in the depths of the executive budget unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul last week there’s a proposal designed to close some short-term vacation ren...