Opinion

A 2016 article in Quartz projected that 94 percent of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative-work category, with more than 60 percent being due to the rise of independent contractors, freelancers, and contract company workers. This growing change is known as the Gig Economy or the future as contractual work. […]

Recently, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government met its small-business federal contracting goal for the fifth consecutive year. The end result was that small businesses across the country were awarded 23.88 percent in federal contract dollars totaling $105.7 billion, an increase of $5 billion. This marks the first time that

Surely you must feel safer after you recently read or heard that a Southwest Airlines pilot made an emergency landing to protect his passengers. This was after a passenger lit a cigarette in a bathroom.  Yes, the pilot aborted a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. He landed at San Jose after the smoker

Every so often, I jot down a list of the things that discourage me about our country. There’s the widespread disregard for our core values of tolerance and mutual respect, for instance. Or our declining national optimism. There’s wage stagnation, income inequality, a high poverty rate, failing infrastructure, inadequate health-care coverage, a dysfunctional Congress …

You are ringside to one of the greatest political brawls in the history of this country. And chances are that we are only in its early rounds. You will likely witness more bruisings, knockdowns, and perhaps a knockout. Of course, I refer to the current Washington, D.C. slugfest over President Donald Trump. In Rounds 1

The economic-development programs touted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo have been vehicles of corruption, with certain individuals gaming the system to make a buck on the public dime. Such is the case with one of Cuomo’s former top aides, Joe Percoco, who was found guilty of accepting bribes, and Alain Kaloyeros, who will face trial for

We need this guy today. To fit us with clear lenses. He appeared years ago. When I sold my car, I ran an ad in the classifieds. It extolled the car’s virtues to no end. Described it as a dream of a vehicle — virtually unblemished. Perfection. He brought me down to earth. “Hey, mate.

I was chatting with a group of students the other day when one of them looked me in the eye and commented, “You’re very tough on journalists.” I had to plead guilty.  Of course, I’m tough on journalists. Maybe even as tough on them as they are on politicians.  Our representative democracy depends on journalists

A bill was recently put forward by a Manhattan lawmaker. Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal) that, if passed and signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, would do away with marksmanship, archery, and shooting programs in New York state schools. The bill would also ban gun-safety classes on school grounds by prohibiting the use of firearms as part of the

Politicians and commentators these Days like to point to an array of Threats to our constitutional system. There’s one, though, that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as it should: our national debt.  We may not yet be in imminent danger of fiscal collapse, but we’re moving into uncharted waters. We are among the most