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You are very much not alone in thinking crime, migrants and cost of living is sinking New York. The grim data on New York’s slide into nonlivability k...

ALBANY (TNS) — At this point, it’s almost cliche to note the stunning incompetence of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management. The agency is tasked ...

With the State Legislature nearing the end of this year’s session, the liquor-store lobby is working feverishly to stifle a bill to let supermarkets a...

Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless t...

ALBANY (TNS) — Smartphones are a gift. They put the world in our pockets, enabling a previously unimaginable distribution of information and, um, cat ...

A state Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation weakening the ability of local government and school officials to discipline workers by ext...

In another case of too little, too late, Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers enacted 20 pages of new regulations in the state budget to tamp down th...

ALBANY (TNS) — Six years ago, Andrew Cuomo and Hillary Clinton came together for a self-congratulatory event that felt and sounded suspiciously like a...

Early last week, when it became increasingly clear that Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature’s Democrat leaders were not going to stick around at the...

If someone told you a couple years ago that anti-abortion measures would be defeated in the same week in the Republican-dominated legislatures of Nebr...

ALBANY (TNS) — According to legend, Abraham Lincoln wrote his most famous speech on the back of an envelope while riding a train to Gettysburg. The le...

For many students, a well-designed standardized test is a legitimate way to measure the knowledge and skills a student has learned in a subject area. ...

While not exactly in the state’s marijuana dispensary rollout plans, our region’s first highly publicized facility opened its doors last week on the g...

There are five reasonable, well-considered bills pending in the New York State Legislature that could benefit the victims of crime. Victims of domesti...

At a recent family get-together, I was asked why I oppose renewable energy development in our rural communities. It’s a fair question, and one I must ...

ALBANY (TNS) — I don’t think I’ve ever suggested that you, dear readers, break the law, and I won’t start now. But if you decide to mix a few marijuan...

Four years after passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York state officials have finally begun to take a close look at t...

With budget talks between Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs not r...