While I’m sorry to be a downer, I don’t think you’ll win Powerball.  Someone will pick the correct numerical combination, although it’s astoundingly unlikely to be you personally.  But playing is like attempting to entice a model from the opposite gender or cheering for a non-Yankees franchise:...

New Yorkers are miserable. But at least now we know why. Specifically, a state government that eats much of your paycheck is concurrently making you sad. The phenomenon of Empire State-based dejection has been analyzed before. Now, Allysia Finley of the Wall Street Journal has highlighted a Science...

If the rents increased organically in an improving area, class warfare warriors would moan about how gentrification was driving out the proles.  Alternately, when the government prices out the very people who toiled to made city sections livable, it’s apparently equality in practice.  Many Buffalonians...

I had the opportunity to sit down with Rick Lazio while he was in town yesterday. I’d never met him before. I wasn’t a New York resident during his unsuccessful Senate bid, so this was not only my first time meeting him, but my first real opportunity to assess him as a candidate that I might...

I thought the worst was behind me when I left Massachusetts… but apparently New York is just as bad, if not worse, than the Bay State when it comes finding new ways to rob taxpayer. As I reported earlier, Governor Paterson wants to start collecting taxes on tobacco products sold on Indian reservations…...