public policy

Kamala Harris is hiding from tough questions, and Donald Trump appears wholly uninterested in the topic. As both major presidential candidates ignore ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Government spending is stealing your future. Each year, the federal government takes and spends nearly one-quarter of every dollar ...

DEAR RUSTY: I’ve been told that members of Congress do not have Social Security deducted from their pay; Additionally, that their retirement dollars c...

ALBANY (TNS) — A coalition of more than 50 business, energy and labor organizations are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration to conduct a com...

Not that we needed another poll to tell us that New York state is getting increasingly more unaffordable, but recent statewide polling from the Siena ...

State Sen. George Borrello believes a scathing audit of New York state’s planning and implementation of the Climate Leadership and Community Protectio...

The Alle-Catt Wind project has come a long way since starting development more than eight years ago. We’ve recently started construction on our Operat...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will have a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion this year, $400 billion more than was...

Inflation has slowed over the last year, but area counties and towns will again be hit by the property tax cap. The Office of the State Comptroller re...

WEST VALLEY — The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recertified the West Valley Demonstration Project’s Environmental Managemen...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy — the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards (S.U.D.S.) Ac...

You’ve heard it and read it time and again over the past several years since the enactment of New York’s far-reaching climate agenda known as the “Cli...

DEAR RUSTY: I hope you can give me some information about a question that has come up in my family. My husband is retired and has reached full retirem...

The IRS has appointed a new “taxpayer experience officer,” whose salary is paid by — who else? — taxpayers themselves. The agency hasn’t publicly anno...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is introducing legislation to make college more affordable for working families by increasing federal grants — eventually...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When former President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans last week that he was thinking about replacing the income tax with an “...

DEAR RUSTY: I try to read your article each week and appreciate the information you provide. I am 62 and considering my retirement options and when I ...

Most area entities which collect local sales taxes saw increases in June, according to the state’s top fiscal watchdog. The Office of the State Comptr...