The President will do what he thinks is best. The rest of us need to as well. If the deal goes down, it will be quite a way to start the President's second term, an ugly fight with the people who fought by his side to elect him.

A new report indicates that the majority of the "pain" to come from budget cuts will trickle down to states and cities. Our local governments will undoubtedly have to cut back on basic services: K-12 education, nutrition for kids, policing, the maintenance of our roads, bridges and parks, etc.

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While some may call it "leftist" of me (I'm actually a moderate) to point out that it was created by Republicans, the fact is that right now they're desperate to win and willing, it seems, to do so by creating distortions and spreading misinformation.

Data is the tongue of the federal government and too often data and information from one agency's program is incompatible with data collected by another.

Why wouldn't our government want the people being governed to be educated, healthy, well-housed and able to freely be in nature? Is it wrong to think that government should want these things for all people?

Either spend some money now in order to enable a generation of kids to participate in and contribute to our society, or pay exponentially more later when we have a generation of adults who are wholly reliant on us because we didn't give them the skills they needed.

A recently-defeated Republican county executive in upstate New York remains a lame duck until the end of the year, but he is now proposing laying off ...