Despite the significant increase in interest rates over the past 18 months, the US economy has continued to thrive, thanks to a robust job market and strong consumer spending. All this spending fostered optimism about the possibility of a “gentle economic slowdown,” allowing the Federal ...

In last week’s column, I mentioned that I love it when my children buy me tickets as a gift rather than more stuff. An hour after I finished writing on Tuesday, my son called to say, “What are you doing next Saturday?” When I replied that we had no plans, he said, “Hold that – I’ll ...

Lately it seems like Facebook has been flooded with various devices that make music or at least play music. Although I have not experienced all of them, I had some of them. Let’s start with the earliest device I remember. I had a Victrola. I had a lot of 78 rpm records to play on it. The one ...

The race to meet the statutory emission thresholds mandated by law in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) is going to result in a perilous outcome for New York State. From a locally owned and operated energy company founded by my grandfather in Tonawanda 90 years ago, ...

This year voting in New York is easier than ever. We will have nine days of early voting prior to this Tuesday’s Election Day. In American history, however, achieving the right to vote has been a tremendous struggle. At the founding of our Country under the Articles of Confederation and ...

For decades, time and again, America’s tax code has been twisted and tweaked to give tax breaks to the top and crumbs (or nothing) to the tens of millions on the bottom and in the middle. Levels of wealth and inequality have become so gross that experts are clamoring for change, painting ...