spending

Will Rogers famously said: “I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” He would have to dig deeper to find a gibe suitable for today’s...

This holiday season, working families across America are struggling through the worst bout of inflation in decades. A typical household has lost more ...

Inflation is likely to be the most powerful issue working for Republicans in this year’s congressional elections. Public concern over it has been risi...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — At one point during EQT Corp.’s fourth quarter earnings call, its CEO Toby Rice said that “the answer is the Marcellus.” He was tal...

In crafting the $216 billion budget she released Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul faced a “dilemma” every pol dreams of: an insane gusher of cash thanks to ...

Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a...

If you’re worried about the direction of the nation, the state of the economy or the sharp rise of price inflation, you’re not alone. A recent Associa...

“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” the economist Thomas Sowell once said. Looking at the way prices are rapidly...

Earlier this month, Rep. Tom Reed was subjected to partisan anger and even threats after he joined a handful of House Republicans to vote for the Demo...

So far, the bipartisan infrastructure deal is going through the normal life cycle of such proposals — alive, dead, revived, uncertain. For Republicans...

Joe Biden isn’t known for his austerity, except when it comes to the nation’s defense. As part of his welcome emphasis on competition with China, the ...

Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...

OLEAN — Residents of the Olean City School District approved a $43.68 million budget for the 2021-22 year by a 506-83 tally. The proposed budget is a ...

The Biden administration is promoting its American Jobs Plan as an “infrastructure” proposal. In reality, it’s a gargantuan tax-and-spend package that...

Whether you call them member items, community projects or earmarks, it’s all fundamentally the same thing: pork-barrel spending. And it’s coming back ...

If Joe Biden wanted to spend massively in response to a nearly unprecedented public health emergency, he was elected too late. The conventional wisdom...

Once upon a time, Joe Biden’s spending proposals would have launched mass demonstrations in opposition. Little else would have been talked about in co...

So far, the defining word of the Biden era is “trillion.” The Joe Biden who portrayed himself as a moderate, old-school, bipartisan dealmaker during t...