Editorial

I am appalled by the actions of Barack Obama — I don’t want to call him president; he doesn’t deserve it. While he was in Newtown, Conn., on TVgiving ...

After reading the column written by Dan K. Thomasson in Sunday’s Olean Times Herald (“Obama Picks Tough Fight”), I felt compelled to write a response....

A poll suggests New York voter sentiment has shifted somewhat from support of shale gas drilling to opposition by a narrow margin. The poll released T...

I recently received a letter from the Allegany Engine Company, Inc. (assumed to be the Allegany Fire Department) requesting a donation for the fire di...

It’s hard to go anywhere in the Southern Tier right now without hearing about the NY Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act. For those who don...

Reform: to put or change into an improved form or condition; to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses. So why is it differ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with an eye on 2016 and a Democratic nomination to run for president, wanted to take the national lead on gun control. While he suc...

We are still searching for answers to the horror of 26 lives lost in the elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Let us pause a moment and look in the mir...

The time has come when we all, as Americans, will have to stand up and be counted or lose everything that our forefathers had fought and died for in t...

All this about guns — little guns, big guns and all the in-between guns. So what do we need guns for? As far as I am concerned, all those sportsmen, h...

I had sent a letter to our lawmakers asking them to vote against the gun-control legislation in Albany. If they wished to strengthen background checks...

On Sunday, a 64-degree day, my husband and I went on what we thought would be a leisurely walk with our dogs on the Allegheny River Valley Trail. It w...

The Democrats’ mantra of “power to the people” only applies to the right kind of people — like union members, Wall Street rioters and people who sneak...

Across Western New York, 55,000 people live with the life-altering and incurable disease of Alzheime’s or a related dementia. Another 155,000 people p...

Chances are, if you receive Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), or any federal payment, you receive it electronically. More ...

Questions about mental health always surface after tragic mass shootings — the kind we saw too many times last year and in previous years. Most recent...

On behalf of those served at the Community Christmas Dinner at St. Mary of the Angels Church, we extend a most heartfelt thank you to everyone in our ...

Last week Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 to avoid the much-hyped “fiscal cliff.” I ran and was elected on a pledge to taxpay...