Brian Higgins: “When we get bipartisan support we can conquer anything.”

Next Friday $25 billion in Social Security benefits are scheduled to be paid out but will not if the nation defaults on its debt.

The United States is experiencing an affordable housing crisis, and western New York is not immune. Older communities like Buffalo and Niagara Falls have aging houses with good bones, but the high cost to rehab these properties, compared…

The budget deficit...has dropped to 5.5 percent at the end of last year.

$25 billion in Social Security benefits would not be sent out.