All too often, bad ideas never really go away in Washington. Congress merely reduces taxpayer funding for them, without insisting they be abandoned. That may be the fate of President Donald Trump’s “Space Force.” Trump envisions the force as an entirely separate, new branch of the ...

With the state facing a $6.1 billion budget deficit, nearly half of which (roughly $4 billion) is tied to the state’s Medicaid program, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, told reporters in Albany recently that the state will have to raise revenue to cover the shortfall. Get ready for ...

The state Legislature has a little more than a week to decide to hold a special session if it wants to make any changes to the Public Campaign Finance Commission’s recommendations. Legislative leadership should do so. Many will always view the Public Campaign Finance Commission’s work ...

This week’s Web Poll: Would you use a trail for biking, snowmobiling, jogging, etc., converted from the railroad tracks between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid? - This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.

As the world’s best bobsled and skeleton athletes compete again this weekend during the IBSF World Cup races at Lake Placid’s Mount Van Hoevenberg, we continue to be in awe that this tiny Adirondack village claimed a stake in the Olympic movement for the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Winter Games ...

To the editor: I participated in the Dec. 6 Sunrise Movement demonstration in Trinity Park (Plattsburgh). We walked with Sunrise members to the nearby Clinton County Government Building, where various governmental entities, including Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s Plattsburgh office, are ...