Like many people, we had mixed feelings about the $700 billion financial rescue plan the House of Representatives rejected Monday — a move that surprised us but absolutely stunned Wall Street. The 778-point Dow drop of that day seems in hindsight to

Compared with other daily newspapers, we were a little late in adding blogs to our Web site. We gained the capacity to add them when our Web site was upgraded in the spring, but we held off at first so we and you could get the hang of the site’s othe

The financial data for 3,100 counties, cities, towns, villages, schools and fire districts is now easily readable on the Open Book New York Web site, thanks to a continued effort by the state comptroller and his staff to make government more accessib

You want to know how much $700 billion is? For every day in the life of a 100-year-old person, it’s $19.2 million — a little more than the cost of the 14,670-acre Follensby Pond property but less than the stalled Lake Placid Conference Center

We give heartfelt condolences to the Quinn family and the entire Keene and Keene Valley communities on the tragic death of Jeremy Quinn. It was truly a great loss for the community — but it also reinforced the fact that, here in the North Country, pe