New York voters overwhelmingly rejected a 2021 referendum that would have allowed no-excuses absentee voting in New York state. No worries. State Democrats have found a way around that pesky state Constitution to get the no-excuse absentee ballot voting they want so badly whether voters want ...

Today, we Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence. Our focus is what the document meant — creation of a new nation, a new set of ideals to form a more perfect union. But what the document itself says about the Founders and about what they intended for us is just as important, in ...

There will be times over the next four years when we will be inconvenienced by a $78 million reconstruction of the Chautauqua County Veterans Memorial Bridge over Chautauqua Lake. The alternatives, however, are worse than inconvenience. Not maintaining bridges inevitably leads to ...

New isolation and quarantine rules and a program to help feed the hungry shouldn’t have much in common. In our view, however, two state Health Department actions on totally unrelated topics have one common thread running through them — that unelected Health Department bureaucrats think ...

A detailed analysis of U.S. immigration laws by the Cato Institute is alarming: Less than 1 percent of potential immigrants — of men and women who attempt to begin the process to legally immigrate to the United States — are able to complete the process and relocate to the U.S. “The myth ...

Legislation approved during the state Legislature’s end-of-session rush moving many elections to even years instead of odd years makes little practical sense. Democrats pushed the legislation as a way to increase voter turnout and streamlines elections. It’s entirely possible voter ...