Democrats and Republicans convene every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, and to prepare a platform of principles and goals. - The new Democratic Party Platform - The new Democratic Party Platform is available at ...

It seemed absurd that a sitting member of Congress would demand journalists take her seriously while berating a political rival for the “scandal” she manufactured last week. But U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, needed an outlet for her feigned indignation over what she called ...

Bottles flying through the air. Men spitting on and slapping the women. Pushing and shoving mothers and their children. Men beating them, yelling terrible insults at working women, nurses, doctors, academic women in their robes, the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority from Howard University, ...

To Dr. Merryl H. Tisch, chair, SUNY Board of Trustees: Dear Dr. Tisch: The New York Coalition for Open Government is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to addressing transparency in government issues. The fact that the SUNY Board of Trustees have selected a new ...

I am deeply troubled by some of the misinformation presented in a recent Guest Editorial and a letter to the Editor, both demanding that the Adirondack Pregnancy Center not be allowed to open in Saranac Lake. With 15 grandchildren in the area who may someday face heartrending and difficult ...

In a July 25, 2020 Buffalo News article Jeff Dewart, Wright Ellis and Jim Simon, elected supervisors in the New York towns of Somerset, Cambria and Yates, expressed alarm over an authority tug-of-war pitting the towns use of “Not in my backyard” polices to control land use against the ...