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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break

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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break

By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com

August 18, 2026

OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...

Commentary, Opinion

Magically disappearing leaves at HUD properties

Jun 09, 2025

The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $714 million paying outside contractors to take care of houses and condominiums owned by the fed...

Commentary, Opinion

Bond market crash to take down MAGA? Wish for something else

Jun 09, 2025

CHICAGO (TNS) — Americans unhappy with President Donald Trump’s second term have taken to wishing for something they shouldn’t. If only the U.S. Treas...

Failure of Raise the Age: A gift to NY’s gangs

Commentary, Opinion

Failure of Raise the Age: A gift to NY’s gangs

By ASSEMBLYMAN WILL BARCLAY

Jun 09, 2025

Raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York has created a nightmare scenario that opened statutory loopholes that prohibit law enforcement ...

Commentary, Opinion

Readers’ Turn to Write: Great libraries build communities

By WENDI MORGAN

Jun 06, 2025

R. David Lankes said, “Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.” As I am hearing more inform...

As Albany’s session ends, watch for rising health costs

Commentary, Opinion

As Albany’s session ends, watch for rising health costs

By BILL HAMMOND

Jun 06, 2025

ALBANY — Every session of the state Legislature brings a fresh crop of proposals that would drive up health-care costs, and 2025 is no exception. Here...

Commentary, Opinion

Trump v. Musk was bound to happen

Jun 06, 2025

It seems it was bound to happen. The White House is nowhere big enough to accommodate the egos of President Trump and Elon Musk. Their fallout happene...

The GOP’s fiscal hawk era is officially over

Commentary, Opinion

The GOP’s fiscal hawk era is officially over

Jun 06, 2025

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is no constituency for debt reduction, which is a fancy way of saying voters don’t care that the federal balance sheet is rough...

Outrage over Trump’s electric vehicle policies is misplaced

Commentary, Opinion

Outrage over Trump’s electric vehicle policies is misplaced

By ASHLEY NUNES Chicago Tribune

Jun 05, 2025

BOSTON (TNS) — Electric car subsidies are heading for the chopping block. A tax bill recently passed by House Republicans is set to stop billions in t...

Commentary, Opinion

Guns aren’t the No. 1 threat to US kids? Tell that to mothers

By JESSIE BUSTAMANTE

Jun 05, 2025

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — To read David Mastio’s recent column about gun violence among America’s children, one would think this epidemic is nothing bu...

Commentary, Opinion

Bill could push Putin to the peace table

Jun 05, 2025

President Donald Trump spoke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for more than an hour on Wednesday about Ukraine. But results remain elusive. “It was a good c...

Readers’ Turn to Write: The Olean Library is a treasure worth investing in

Commentary, Opinion

Readers’ Turn to Write: The Olean Library is a treasure worth investing in

By TAYLOR EADE

Jun 04, 2025

The Olean Public Library is so much more than a place to check out books — it’s a space where families grow, kids feel seen and learning comes to life...

Uses for the vanishing penny? There’s 114 billion of them.

Commentary, Opinion

Uses for the vanishing penny? There’s 114 billion of them.

By BILL TORPY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Jun 04, 2025

When I read the lowly penny was set for extinction, I got melancholy thinking of what would no longer be. First, kids will not know the excitement of ...

Commentary, Opinion

Taxpayers will fund Qatari ‘gift’

Jun 04, 2025

President Donald Trump described the $400 million jet Qatar’s government gave to the U.S. as a “gift, free of charge” on Truth Social. The plane may b...

CDC says guns are the No. 1 killer of children. Except they’re not

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CDC says guns are the No. 1 killer of children. Except they’re not

By DAVE MASTIO Kansas City Star

Jun 04, 2025

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Robert F. Kennedy’s Make Children Healthy Again report under attack for questionable science, imaginary research and other “fo...

CDC says guns are the No. 1 killer of children. Except they’re not

Articles, Commentary, Nation World

CDC says guns are the No. 1 killer of children. Except they’re not

DAVE MASTIO Kansas City Star

Jun 04, 2025

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Robert F. Kennedy’s Make Children Healthy Again report under attack for questionable science, imaginary research and other “fo...

Another antisemitic terror attack

Articles, Commentary, Nation World

Another antisemitic terror attack

Jun 03, 2025

Once again, this time in Boulder, Colorado, a terrorist self-draped in the Palestinian cause has taken to violence. Whatever one believes, violence fo...

Same as it ever was

Articles, Commentary, Nation World

Same as it ever was

J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics

Jun 03, 2025

In their upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland version of reality, the left has a point when they cast George Orwell as a prophet of our times. Our world i...

‘Organs-on-a-chip’ is one of many alternatives to animal testing

Articles, Commentary, Nation World

‘Organs-on-a-chip’ is one of many alternatives to animal testing

F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion

Jun 03, 2025

NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: th...

Taxpayers will fund Qatari ‘gift’

Articles, Commentary, Nation World

Taxpayers will fund Qatari ‘gift’

Jun 03, 2025

President Donald Trump described the $400 million jet Qatar’s government gave to the U.S. as a “gift, free of charge” on Truth Social. The plane may b...

Allocate New York justices based on population

Articles, Commentary, Nation World

Allocate New York justices based on population

FRANK CARUSO syracuse.com

Jun 03, 2025

NIAGARA FALLS (TNS) — There is general agreement that New York state needs to expand the number of Supreme Court justices to tackle a mammoth backlog ...