public financing

When Assemblyman Joseph Giglio walked out of the Capitol in Albany on Saturday, a thought struck him. “That’s the last state budget I’ll ever vote on,...

A group of eight Democratic progressive U.S. House members known as “The Squad” have filed $224 million of earmarks in the federal budget since 2023 t...

SALAMANCA — City officials have announced the meeting schedule for the planning of the 2024-25 budget. According to the city charter, the Common Counc...

If the federal government eliminated several duplicative regional commissions and authorities, it would save taxpayers $287 million annually, the Citi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The world is waking up to a stark reality that could affect tens of millions of Americans: The federal government may be unable to ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s bad enough that Congress and the White House are making no serious effort to cut spending these days — something we all wind u...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s bad enough that the White House helped create 40-year-high inflation. But now it has the audacity to gaslight the American peo...

NEW YORK (TNS) — With the appropriations fight in Washington in overdrive, and a barely avoided government shutdown behind it — for now — Congress sho...

ALLEGANY — The town of Allegany will conduct a budget work session on at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Town Hall building located at 52 W. Main St.

SALAMANCA — The renovation and addition project at the Salamanca Police Department is nearly complete with a ribbon-cutting ceremony set for 11 a.m. O...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

The 2023 state legislative session will come to an end this week, and lawmakers won’t be back in Albany passing bills for another six months. One of t...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy voted in favor of the Fiscal Responsibility Act to raise the debt ceiling days before the U.S. faces the prospect of default...

Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship. If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, ...

President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction. A party platfo...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy says President Joe Biden’s new $6.8 trillion budget “may as well have been released from Mars because it couldn’t be any mor...

ALBANY (TNS) — A top concern of most Albany lawmakers is job security. They don’t want to make it easy for voters to choose somebody else. That helps ...