I recently heard from Josh Mills, who runs the estate of Ernie Kovacs and whose mother is the late Edie Adams, the performer who was married to Kovacs. He had a pretty good idea.
We're being sold a bill of goods. We are being systematically lied to so the upper tenth of 1 percent of the population, which funds our elections and pays off our politicians, can get ever richer.
Think how today might be very different if members of Congress and the Bush Administration were required to have skin in the game when it came to invading Iraq.
Could there be intelligent life on Kepler-22b? Are they more advanced than we are? Think of the possibilities. Maybe they have a government where politicians serve the people and not their own reelection interests.
There is way too much money involved to ban hydrofracking in the state. Albany needs to stand up for its residents and the environment and hold the gas companies responsible.
The president speaks repeatedly of “fairness,” otherwise known as “class warfare.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo does also.
Newt Gingrich, his lawyers, and his staff adamantly insist that it's rude and crude to call him a lobbyist. No, no, they bark, the Newt is "a visionary."
Most Americans are increasingly declining any affiliation that would call on them to sacrifice of their time, let alone money or attention. Instead, we prefer to show our support through social media, which requires only that we push a button.
New York needs to lower state-imposed costs on business and capital, and remove regulatory and procedural barriers to new private sector investment and job growth.
Five years ago, western New York Rep. Louise Slaughter introduced legislation to prevent insider stock trading by her fellow legislators. She could only find nine sponsors. What a difference a visit from “60 Minutes” makes.
You don't have to make millions to rate as an all-star greedster. You do have to be ruthless, self-absorbed and insensitive to others. Here's my list of the 10 greediest Americans of 2011.
THE ISSUE The Legislature passed a bill back in June that would require local governments to make available documentation related to upcoming discussion.
OUR OPINION Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to get off the dime and sign the bill.
The AARP should be taking the lead in proposing and advocating solutions to the entitlement-program spending, rather than compounding the problem and the generational divide.
We believe the holidays are meant to celebrate a special time of the year with family and others we care about in safe and mindful ways.
It's the holidays. People gain a little weight around this time of year, and then lose it in the spring. I do the same thing, except for the losing-it part.
This is a collaboration of political leaders, medical professionals, community leaders and concerned citizens with the mission of focusing the collective will of the American people on the goal of ending cancer by the end of the decade.
Fixing the deficit will require politicians who can set aside the politics of the moment. The members of the special committee were unable and unwilling to do that.
A parental decree was issued after my youngest brother got into a tug of war with a candy cane and managed to pull down the Christmas tree, breaking several ornaments, staining the carpet with water from the stand and frightening our puppy, a mutt named Freckles, who stained the carpet some more.
What makes a great holiday gift? Any item that is "10 percent toy and 90 percent kid." For instance, a plain old doll is a great gift because a child has to do the talking for it
