Op Eds

By Steve Levy President Trump is floating up trial balloons on possibly seeking a tax increase for the highest earners to help fund other parts of his budget, which would include an elimination of taxes […]

Folks old enough to remember New York in the late eighties and early nineties will recall a city deemed unmanageable, with violent crime out of control and a murder rate tallying over 2,000 a year.  […]

By Ed Ra The governor said the budget was “done” more than a week ago before any bills were introduced, before a financial plan was released and before the Legislature had a chance to do […]

By Olena Nicks Each April, we recognize Sexual Assault Awareness Month in America — a time for our society to unite behind the mission of supporting survivors, educating communities, and refining the strategies and resources […]

How many of us have “put down” our dogs or know of others who have done so as they were suffering in the last days of their lives?  We do so because we believe it’s […]

Previously Published in The Messenger “Every year is an election year,” we hear every year, ad nauseum.  That’s the funny thing about cliches: they wouldn’t be cliché if they didn’t have at least some degree […]

By Steve Levy It is deeply disturbing that our nation has become embroiled in an obsession over gender transitioning, even to the point of sex change operations being promoted in many of our schools without […]

If you listen to the left, illegal alien and suspected gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a good-natured, innocent, non-violent father and family man who was made to disappear one night by the authoritarian Trump […]

The CBS News magazine TV show, 60 Minutes, has gotten boring because it’s so predictable in criticizing the Trump administration week after week after having given a pass to Biden for the last four years. […]

By Elaine Phillips Governor Kathy Hochul’s latest scheme to raise the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax — also known as the MTA Payroll Tax — is yet another blow to New York’s businesses and working-class […]