It’s a scary time of year. It’s scary to drive anywhere. You’d like to just take a nice ride through the countryside and enjoy the beautiful fall colors that nature provides us at this time of year. But it’s not the Halloween decorations that are frightening, morbid and gross that ...

I write to clarify and correct the public record created by recent reporting and editorial comment on my efforts to obtain “Sexually Violent Offender” designations for certain convicted sex offenders under New York’s Sex Offender Registration Act (“SORA”). In my view, your coverage ...

By SEN. GEORGE BORRELLO and ASSEMBLYMAN JOE GIGLIO There is a dangerous Constitutional Amendment on the ballot this coming Election Day that, in our opinion, is cause for significant concern. The amendment, commonly known as Proposal One, Prop 1, or Proposition One, will appear on the ...

What became known as “The Speech” took place 60 years ago this week. The Speech was on behalf of a major-party-American-presidential candidate shortly before Election Day. Years later, the candidate recalled that supporters had proposed he give The Speech himself. The candidate, ...

I’ve avoided politics for the last few weeks because I’ve grown tired of a process that on the presidential level seems to go on for almost three years. First there is a period where candidates test the waters. If there is interest, they announce their candidacy to loud yet phony hoopla. ...

Last Monday morning was especially blue – but not for the usual gloomy reasons. My routine road trip to Erie for a doctor’s appointment was particularly eye-opening… and captivating. It was ten a.m. as I drove toward Sugar Grove, home to many Amish families. On the way into town, I ...