The debate over affordability is now truly and fully joined. After the off-year elections, Democrats are coalescing around a cost-of-living message that makes more sense than their anti-Trump obsessions (not that we aren’t going to hear a lot about those). For its part, the White House ...
The buzzword of the month is “affordability,” and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that’s declining. Democrats think they’ve found a winning issue to win back the hearts and minds of voters. It’s true that people are angry about ...
“Someone could be smiling, someone could be dancing, laughing, having a great time, expressing all this joy, but on the inside, they could really be fighting a battle that you never know about.” These are the poignant words of Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Solomon Thomas in ...
The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor set off — for his fan base, anyway — great expectations of a more “affordable” city. But the Democratic Socialist hasn’t even been sworn in, and some of his marquee promises are already history. Start with free buses. For a city ...
I’m forming a new political party. No offense intended to the two major ones we already have, but they stink. OK, well, if I’m being honest, some offense was intended. Currently, we’re at “invading Venezuela to distract attention from the Epstein files” levels of incompetence, so a ...
It is great to see, during the holiday season, that Belmont County organizations continue to think about their neighbors in need. This time, the Belmont County NAACP, the Belmont County Department of Job and Family Services, Local AFSCME 3073, and Belmont County Unify came together recently ...