While other recent Supreme Court decisions have garnered a lot of attention recently, one made Monday should have anyone who believes in the First Amendment celebrating. In a 6-3 decision, the high court ruled that high school football coach Joe Kennedy was wrongly fired because he insisted ...

The news that more than $21,000 in Carroll swim program fees going back roughly 10 years into the past can’t be confirmed as ever actually deposited into town bank accounts is a shocking failure of the trust town residents placed in the people they elected to show basic financial common ...

It’s a nice feather in the cap for Fancher Chair and its employees to see the longtime Falconer company included in New York state’s Historic Business Preservation Registry. Founded in 1807, the company is one of 100 businesses included in the first round of designations. Staying in ...

Pardon the pun, but what exactly was the state secret Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leadership were trying to keep from state residents in the run-up to last week’s extraordinary legislative session? Hochul is a real professional when it comes to talking about transparency. When it ...

As we celebrate our nation’s 246th birthday, and as we find ourselves coming out of a year of government-imposed shutdowns in the face of a global pandemic, it would be wise for we Americans to reflect upon whether we have maintained the political philosophy the founders fathers knew was ...

The reaction from both sides of the gun debate was swift, boisterous and, frankly, predictable in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen. The court ruling issued last week specifically overturned a New York law that had been ...