Lately it seems like Facebook has been flooded with various devices that make music or at least play music. Although I have not experienced all of them, I had some of them. Let’s start with the earliest device I remember. I had a Victrola. I had a lot of 78 rpm records to play on it. The one ...

The race to meet the statutory emission thresholds mandated by law in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) is going to result in a perilous outcome for New York State. From a locally owned and operated energy company founded by my grandfather in Tonawanda 90 years ago, ...

This year voting in New York is easier than ever. We will have nine days of early voting prior to this Tuesday’s Election Day. In American history, however, achieving the right to vote has been a tremendous struggle. At the founding of our Country under the Articles of Confederation and ...

For decades, time and again, America’s tax code has been twisted and tweaked to give tax breaks to the top and crumbs (or nothing) to the tens of millions on the bottom and in the middle. Levels of wealth and inequality have become so gross that experts are clamoring for change, painting ...

Trying to line up votes in a legislative chamber has often been compared to “trying to herd cats.” It is not an easy job. It has been made even tougher in the current Congress where a small minority of Republican extreme right-wingers have been dominating the House of ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y.—As a guest arrives at a library in Dutchess County, an archivist takes him to a part of the library off limits to the general public. One item on these shelves is, of all things, an English translation of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. As a boy, the book’s owner had a ...