Editor, OBSERVER: Why are a lot of people beginning to side with the philosophy of socialism, and where is America going if that continues? It’s very tempting to be a socialist. It’s very tempting to want someone else to pay for something you might want. Free sounds good until you have ...

As of January 1, New York State’s minimum wage for Upstate is $16, up from $15.50. New York State’s minimum wage was the same as the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 as recently as 2013, 13 years ago. Beginning in 2014, the State Legislature put in place increases in the State minimum wage ...

Twenty years after “An Inconvenient Truth,” none of Al Gore’s wild speculations about climate catastrophe have emerged, yet people still cling to the climate nonsense, and New York state energy policy remains absurdly captive to that narrative. By way of example, climate fraud led New ...

Let’s pick up where we left off 148 weeks ago. Not even you, faithful reader of this column, will recall that we were well into March 2023. By turning on the snow machine then, Mother Nature appeared to be trying to make up for a lack of snow during the preceding winter. “No,” we told ...

Our family has cut way back on Christmas presents in recent years. We all still enjoy filling some desires from the grandchildrens’ wishlists. Honestly, they are the only ones who really need anything. But I have a problem, and it is probably a hangup going back to my childhood. I want ...

On April 2, the Trump administration citing the  International Emergency Economic Powers Act declared a national emergency on tariffs. At the time the administration announced reciprocal tariffs on imports from several nations. Reciprocal tariffs work this way; essentially, if Country A ...