Brian Higgins: “There is no excuse whatsoever for holding back on this type of information.”

Even inflation, which this month was at 4.1 percent, is lower than the global average of 5.2 percent.

It is Congress that is not fulfilling its mission to Social Security beneficiaries.

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…