Editorial

The Olean city streets do not have much flexibility for adjustment to allow for added heavy truck traffic. In the far future a deeper underpass on Fro...

We’re going to take a break from our regularly-scheduled column on open government this week, as a story I covered recently motivated me to go in a sl...

I want to thank Dr. Barry Gan for that well-informed and comprehensive op-ed piece that he wrote (Feb. 5, “The Grey View of History”) in response to a...

Did you New Yorkers see the line in the story about extending Route 219 to meet Interstate 86 suggesting that the extension could lead to “urban spraw...

Buffalo Business First, a weekly newspaper that focuses primarily on business and economic development in Western New York, loves its “top” lists. Top...

I was glad to see in Wednesday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is cracking down on the Industrial Development Agency tax br...

To “Uncertain in Allegany,” I would like to start by saying thank you for all donations thus far. What we tried to do is to give a brief explanation o...

The latest Potomac two-step under the guise of the fiscal cliff and curtailing the national budget deficit is a bit like my friend telling about the t...

The commentary by Dr. Barry Gan in Tuesday’s edition (“The Grey View of History”) was in response to John Stengel’s submission in Sunday’s edition (“O...

I just read the news about the school wanting a almost 4 percent tax increase for this year. Are they crazy? Where do they think the taxpayers are goi...

As a rally is being organized for Thursday in Allegany by opponents of hydraulic fracturing, New Yorkers as a whole and in the Southern Tier remain ev...

In my seemingly never-ending quest to inform the public of how local governments are (supposed to be) run, I figure we’ll get a little more into what ...

The op-ed piece by John Stengel in Sunday’s edition (“Obama Earns Critical View of Policies, Presidency”) is filled with a variety of distortions and ...

A number of citizens and law enforcement officials played an important role in assisting with the capture of an alleged Alfred bank robber, Scott Wade...

History tells us that engineering advances not only solve problems, they also create new ones. The environmental problems created today by advanced na...

I write to answer Pat Vecchio’s column (“Regretfully, Plenty of Name-Calling to Go Around”), who had written in response to Nate Smith’s letter to the...

What is the relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget and your desire to protect New York’s environment? What is the relationship betwe...

Back in the day — that makes it sound so long ago, doesn’t it? — a big technical crisis involving computers and news feeds was often solved with a bro...