We must temper the COVID pandemic’s class warfare
To paraphrase a Dire Straits song, some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bug. Gov. Andrew Cuomo learned this hard lesson Tuesday when a Marist College poll showed his approval rating dipped with New Yorkers in the wake of recent controversy over his administration’s delayed r…
BRUNSWICK — As we start a new Congress and welcome a new administration, the federal government has the opportunity to take new steps to address issues plaguing the military community.
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Winter kill is probably coming to a pond near you
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I wish I had the guts to become a shoplifter.
While we’re not out of the woods yet, there is a sliver of light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
NEW YORK — Black History Month challenges all of us to learn, reflect and understand many things about the Black American experience, among them the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This outrage, perpetrated by the U.S. Public Health Service, was not conducted for a year or even a decade — it went o…
A call to mandate higher wages has once again stirred an old debate, and a government report has given both sides new fodder for their arguments.
It appears there’s a lower risk of a significant rise in water levels this year in Northern New York.
ALBANY — New York state’s history is also the history of newspapers and magazines, from the earliest single-page colonial broadsheets of the 1600s to trend-spotting magazines about modern life in the world’s most exciting city.
A recent admission by a member of the Cuomo administration confirms the assertions of critics that those on the Second Floor tried to suppress evidence of an awful consequence of the novel coronavirus.
I have made a decision.
The Empire Center for Public Policy in Albany has struck a blow in favor of open government.
When real-estate agents talk about their best selling point, the answer is the same: location, location, location. Transposed to state health experts and their view of the current state of the COVID-19 vaccine, the answer is also given in triplicate: supply, supply, supply.
GEORGETOWN, Texas (Tribune News Service) — Last week, the House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to bar Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman from Georgia’s 14th District, from serving on the House Education and Budget Committees.
As we know all too well, there is no sure thing where COVID-19 is concerned. This is likely to be demonstrated again this weekend when New Yorkers should anticipate state websites to become overwhelmed when 3 million or more additional people with underlying conditions become eligible to mak…
Growing up, Camp Dittmer was special to me.
Given the economic downturn resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic, the trend for many counties last year was a loss of sales taxes.
New York state Attorney General Letitia James is riding a winning streak.
I feel left out.
In a sensible decision in favor of transparency and accountability, a state Supreme Court judge Wednesday ordered the state Health Department to make public COVID-19 data reported by New York’s nursing home operators within five business days, siding with a Capital Region senator in a lawsui…
A report issued last week by state Attorney General Letitia A. James’s office confirmed what many people have asserted for months.
February is Black History Month. It’s the month when we bear witness to the culture of Black America in a blighted past and look ahead to a brighter future without senseless violence and systemic racism.
Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, President Donald Trump and Congress worked together to make a series of significant changes to tax code. Among them was a change to the estate tax, which taxes individuals on larger inheritances — which is why it’s also known as the “death tax.”
A population of over 325 million people. A target vaccination rate of at least 70 percent to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 and put an end to a deadly pandemic. Only months to achieve this goal so that Americans can get back to normal.
Given his reckless conduct that contributed to an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, many Americans believe Donald Trump should have been removed from office before his term expired Jan. 20.
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TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE — Donald Trump’s narcissistic, scatterbrained, sometimes cataclysmic moral ineptitude hurt America in two different ways, first by his own attacks on what is so precious to our way of life and next by inspiring his political enemies to join the party.
Shortly after taking the oath of office last week, President Joe Biden signaled his intent to address lingering environmental problems.
(TNS) – Our new president is a man for prose. In his inaugural address Jan. 20, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Joe Biden defended the value of truth, facts, science. He spoke forcefully of the seemingly unachievable need for a sense of shared purpose, in the face of a pandemic and so many…
Something tells me I should be digging a hole.
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During the inauguration ceremony Wednesday, references to the U.S. Capitol reminded us what’s truly at stake in our experiment with self-government.
There is much to commend about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s push to see renewable energy projects get underway throughout the state.
There was a terroristic riot through the halls of our Capitol. Two members of law enforcement, and four others, are dead. For some reason our congressman left his “shelter in place” to continue the farcical charade of the “stolen” election. He doubled down on the false notion that, hours bef…
Republican state senators recently demonstrated that they have no intention of throwing in the towel as the opposition party in Albany.
On Monday, the nation celebrated the life of the great Martin Luther King, Jr., the most visible and impactful leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The MLK holiday was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, 15 years after King’s assassination.
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State authorities will correct some of the errors they made with their COVID-19 vaccination rollout by allowing counties to play a bigger role.
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LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) — After President Donald Trump’s disgraceful performance on Wednesday, it’s no wonder so many legislators — including a few Republicans — want to oust him immediately.
While farmers throughout the state recently got a breather when it comes to having to pay more overtime to their workers, this issue will hang over them unless authorities come to their senses.
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Standing like a sentinel on our north shore watching over Lake Ontario is what used to be the Somerset power project. It once provided well-paying jobs to 100 families and it produced megawatts of electricity like they were going out of style. It came to be that the plant’s means of power ge…
Sometimes, words fail me.