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Finally, an argument for same-sex marriage that staunch conservatives might be forced to listen to: It turns out that battling gay nuptials is a job killer.

A study released this week by the City of New York says that gay weddings conducted there since the state legalized same-sex marriage in July 2011 have brought about $260 million in spending to the city. At least 8,200 same-sex marriage...

It was always clear that last summer’s brawl over raising the debt ceiling was a high stakes battle. But now the actual tab is in; it cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.

That’s what we paid to cover the additional costs of borrowing due to uncertainty in the Treasury market while Congress slugged it out, according to the Government Accountability Office. And that’s not the final tab. It doesn’t...

[Editor's note: In his July 17 column for Tribune Media Services, Joel Brinkley wrote that Egypt’s new president has been quiet about calls by senior Islamic clerics for the demolition of the Great Pyramids. But the threat to the monuments has been questioned by others, including a story in The New York Times. Here, Brinkley responds.]

Will Islamic extremists destroy the Great Pyramids of...

It should come as no surprise that Yonker’s budget shortfall isn't going anywhere, despite efforts to curb spending. In fact, Mayor Mike Spano’s comments this week sound awfully familiar.

The city is still facing an estimated $86 million shortfall, according to reports, and the mayor on Monday said the situation is only getting more bleak in the years to come.

Even though the city cut...

The 2013 budget season is fast approaching. In September, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone must submit to the county legislature his proposal for next year's budget.

The details are still taking shape, but it's going to be painful. Even with the steps Bellone has already taken to whittle down the deficit, it's still a $300-million problem. Unlike the Upstairs/Downstairs approach in Nassau...

Summer is coming to a peak and last-minute vacation plans need to be finalized – just in time for a major hotel boycott. National and local organizations alike are imploring travelers still making reservations to inquire about access to the pool — the disability access.

Amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act have been in the works for years. Revised regulations for both commercial...

Thirty years ago it seemed Sally Ride could overcome any obstacle. As the first U.S. woman to ride into space, she defied the barriers of gender and gravity. But she couldn’t overcome a banal one that kills close to 40,000 Americans every year: pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, yet it’s one that continues to have a consistently poor prognosis, even...

You probably haven't heard of him--few people have--but a remarkable New Yorker has at last been erased from the art scene. Herbert Vogel, a diminutive postal worker who, with his wife Dorothy, amassed one of the most remarkable art collections of the 20th century, died Sunday at the age of 89. But not before he made his mark. In their heyday, the Vogels were nonpareil. They lived on her salary...

Editorial cartoonists from around the country reflect on the mass shooting at a "Batman" film premiere in Aurora, Colo.

The shootings have jump started a conversation about gun-control laws in the United States.

GALLERY: "Batman" massacre...