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President Joe Biden has signed what may well end up being the biggest accomplishment of his presidency, an enormous $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. W...

As President-elect Joe Bide puts together his agenda, he’s already signaled that he will reverse some Trump orders by rejoining the Paris climate acco...

Cashless spending has long been a convenient way to make purchases, and that convenience became even more evident in 2020. The outbreak of the novel c...

ALBANY (TNS) — Amid both a pandemic and an economic crisis, the State Legislature approved a $177 billion budget overnight Friday with special provisi...

It’s an annual debate around the holiday season: real Christmas tree or artificial? Artificial trees have a big edge in New York state, according to t...

As Democratic presidential candidates stumble over one another in a headlong rush towards socialism and fiscal insanity — promising trillions in new s...

HINSDALE — The Hinsdale Central School District is proposing spending and tax increases that officials say will offset rising costs so current program...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed had some rare praise for Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his weekly media call Tuesday. “I applaud Gov. Cuomo for saying he would not sign a b...

OLEAN — The Olean Common Council will make its first forays into the 2019-20 city budget this week. The council’s finance committee will meet at 5:30 ...

OLEAN — The first draft of the city’s 2019-20 spending plan will be released this week, but Mayor Bill Aiello said it likely won’t contain many surpri...

Sometimes you see the warning signs coming—you got a bad performance review, or your coworkers are being laid off left and right. Whether it’s the bus...

President Trump took office three months and 19 days into the 2016 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30 each year. The federal budget de...

One of the core tasks of government is to promote the common good. Pope John XXIII defined “the common good” as “the sum total of social conditions wh...

FRANKLINVILLE — Franklinville residents support $6 million in school building upgrades that will not raise their taxes, but are unwilling to take on a...

CATTARAUGUS — The Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School Board of Education will conduct a public hearing Tuesday on the tentative 2018-19 budget of...

(TNS) Good news for anyone who just finished filing their taxes for 2017: Next year, when we file our taxes for 2018, we’ll send less money to Washing...

ALBANY — Lawmakers passed a $168.3 billion state budget in the early hours Saturday that includes surcharges on taxi, Uber and Lyft rides in Manhattan...

(TNS) Perhaps you missed President Donald Trump’s shifty little political move last week on that massive congressional spending bill. Be assured thoug...