Despite public revulsion, negatives work, if only to bring front-runners to heel.

A new proposal would increase legislators’ terms from two years to four years, but limit them to three terms total....

A blast of fresh air blew into the local congressional race last week in the person of independent candidate Diane...

Together, the buildings contain 196 units of federal Section 8 housing. The developers, Landmark Preservation, L.C. of New York City,...

The Kingston Housing Authority, the city’s largest provider of low-income housing, will name a permanent executive director after a year-long...

For former assemblyman Pete Lopez, now EPA regional administrator, returning to family roots in Puerto Rico, was, as Yogi Berra...

Thoughts on the rumors surrounding Kingston Mayor Steve Noble.

A feasibility study for what could be a three-county regional resource recovery facility was unveiled to legislative chairmen and other...

Congressman John Faso didn’t exactly wow ‘em at last week’s Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting, but he...

A six-pack of Democratic congressional candidates bashing Republicans on Super Bowl Sunday? What were they thinking? 

"We should never allow non-financial issues to shut down the government," said the congressman, who faces reelection this November.

Contractors began ripping up 11.5 miles of county-owned U&D tracks at the Ashokan Reservoir last week to create a rail...

The Democrats suffer no such restrictions as Ronald Reagan’s famous Eleventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans.”...

The Rev. Miroslaw Pawlaczyk, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church on Delaware Avenue in Kingston, has his sights set high these...

Politics being a game of deliberate deception, I strongly advise readers to take the many political polls that will be...

The showcase contest in 2018 will be the Congress race, with incumbent Republican John Faso looking like Custer at Little...

This edition marks the 25th anniversary of Hugh’s Christmas list. As Hugh has detailed in the past, each one-line mention...

When government officials routinely appropriate rather large sums to balance their budgets, it seems to me the books weren’t really...

In Rally Point, his third book, former Congressman Chris Gibson uses his own life journey as an Army combat commander,...

Hinchey, in many ways, redefined politics in these parts. He didn’t just show up in October of election years. He...