Commentary

Among the issues being negotiated in the overdue state budget is a reversal of state pension reforms enacted 14 years ago to rein in fast-growing reti...

ALBANY — New York State lawmakers steered tens of millions of dollars in pork barrel spending to pet projects last year, according to a new report by ...

Four astronauts are on a journey around the moon, a mission that offers a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly. On...

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, “Many people — they’re j...

Well into the second week without a new state budget in place, we’re continuing the fight to keep attention focused on the No. 1 issue facing many of ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Republican crack-up is coming — not over the Iran war and not today. But the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a harbinger...

ALBANY — We recently marked the sixth anniversary of a fateful moment in New York’s coronavirus pandemic: the Cuomo administration’s order sending Cov...

President Donald Trump last week offered the nation a defense of America’s offensive against Iran, assuring the country the mission will end “very sho...

Editor's note: The Interfaith Community of the Olean area sponsored an essay contest for high school students, asking: Does faith have a role in heali...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has a Florida problem. Facing a ballooning budget deficit and an ever-narrowing lead in her reelection bid against Republic...

Recently, a federal court struck down the president’s executive order that sought to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS, ruling that it violated the Fi...

Recently, some have suggested that New York’s volunteer fire service is in “disarray.” Anyone who has spent time in a local firehouse knows that claim...

Editor's note: The Interfaith Community of the Olean area sponsored an essay contest for high school students, asking: Can faith have a role in healin...

A statistic in a retirement magazine startled me a little. AARP the Magazine noted that 65.3 million U.S. adults are considered “physically inactive.”...

Editor's note: The Interfaith Community of the Olean area sponsored an essay contest for high school students, asking: Can faith have a role in healin...

On St. Patrick’s Day, when those of us of Irish descent and even those poor souls not so blessed, were eating corned beef and cabbage, drinking Guines...

As a life resident and property owner in the town of Allegany, I served in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, including a tour in Vietnam. It came to my atte...

For years, the legal strategy against social media companies had largely focused on the content hosted on these sites, but that strategy hadn’t gained...