Opinion

My office receives many inquiries from constituents who wonder why their energy bills are so high. These inquiries are well founded, as New Yorkers pay some of the highest residential energy costs in the nation. In fact, New York’s energy costs rank among the top 5 highest in the country. We pay on average 19.56 […]

Hillary Clinton seems to get into trouble every time she talks about money. She’s a big girl and can find her own way out of the thicket that ensnares her. But she has opened a can of worms. The worms are not of her making. The worms are the issues of money in politics. Why

Would you like to take me up on a small bet? Private accounts for Social Security. One or both candidates for the White House in 2016 will promote them. Private accounts are where some or all your Social Security contribution goes into your own account. For your control. To be invested in stocks and bonds.

To the Editor: [Note: This letter is in response to the Tom Morgan column, entitled, “Global warming: not an easy idea for scientists to walk away from no matter the evidence,” published in the July 4-11 issue of The Business Journal.] It is unfortunate and shocking that with the reliable sources of scientific information available

The state legislative session recently ended for the year. There were many good measures that passed, but many more, however, that did not come to floor for a vote. Here are a few noteworthy items that passed that I was pleased about. This list is not comprehensive, but I wanted to share with you some

First, please note the plug for my latest play, at the end of this column. I recently read that some science writers claim that NASA and other scientists fiddled with temperature data to show global warming. The writers show us one chart with actual U.S. temperatures — those recorded each year since 1900 or so.

Set to the background of a mournful piano melody, a stoic, authoritative voice on the radio public-service announcements tells us in hushed, reverent tones, that the person next to us in the car, or perhaps our office mate down the hall, or even one of our kid’s friends, all suffer with hunger. We are told

Just how big is the student-loan bubble? America’s college and university students now owe more than $1.2 trillion for their education, more than double the amount owed in 2007. The obligation impacts 37 million borrowers. The size of the debt is staggering, but of even more concern is the rate of expansion of the trend

Once again the New York state teachers’ union (New York State United Teachers, or NYSUT) insults quality teachers. Its New York City chapter just watered down evaluations of teachers. That was a concession it won in its new contract. In other words, it moved to protect poor performers. That insults the good teachers. The State