WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is going all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.” The term applies to a seemingly covert way for companies to raise prices by ever so slightly reducing the size of their products. There’s suddenly fewer pretzels in the bag, less toothpaste in the tube and ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden delivered a politics-heavy State of the Union to Congress Thursday night, a presentation that netted derision from the North Country’s representatives. The keystone speech in a president’s annual calendar, the State of the Union is a constitutionally ...
SARANAC LAKE — With the deadline for filing independent petitions for the upcoming village election now passed, the March 19 ballot is set. Democrat Fred Balzac is not on the ballot, but he is running as a write-in. He had earlier planned to file to run on an independent line, but said he ...
SARANAC LAKE — Attorney Paula Collins announced on Tuesday that she is running for the congressional seat currently held by Elise Stefanik, setting up a Democratic primary between herself and Democrat Steven Holden. Collins, a cannabis tax attorney who made her announcement outside the ...
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas was not, in fact, impeached by the House. A border security package instantly collapsed in the Senate. And foreign aid for Ukraine as its fights Russia is stubbornly stalled. The broken US. Congress failed in stunning fashion this week as ...
A state Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the state of New York by North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik and other Republicans last year seeking to throw out New York’s Early Mail Voter Act, a universal mail-in voting law passed in September. The judge declared the Early ...