Opinion

Congress began funding a transportation research center at South Carolina State University in 1998. Twenty-eight years later, most of the project is s...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Debate continues across the country on our nation’s energy future. What is our best energy policy going forward? Several factors contr...

The consequences are downstream, but responsibility begins upstream. Something deeply troubling is happening in the way we talk about immigration enfo...

ALBANY (TNS) — To see why heavily favored incumbents so often avoid debating their challengers, check out the televised thumping that state Attorney G...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Manufactured housing, colloquially known as the “mobile home,” has a reputation for low quality, but that stereotype is outdated. A...

In a bitterly divided U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives did the unthinkable last month. It passed bipartisan legislation on artificial intel...

Katie McMullen, in a recent commentary defending a Catholic group that is pro-choice, wrote some “women facing motherhood because of tragic circumstan...

(Editor’s note: Audrey Hager is coordinator of the Southern Tier Sangha at Olean Meditation Center and assistant professor of psychology at St. Bonave...

Who knew we were so brave? Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Americans were freaking out over the threat of thermonuclear war. Books, newspapers, movies, T...

In September 2024, automated computer systems flagged more than 400,000 people who were potentially wrongly receiving Social Security checks. Employee...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Bowling has seen better days. Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp., the dominant player in the business, has lost nearly half of its mark...

Arlington County, Virginia opened its first “SuperStop” bus stop in 2013, complete with heated floors, electronic display screens and slanted pavement...

(TNS) — Commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed. Before the war with Iran, approximately 125 commercial vessels passed ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Supreme Court’s decision blocking the Trump plan to use the Post Office to screen mail ballot applications has removed one of t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — These are the best of times for Americans — at least economically and at least on paper (in the metaphorical sense of course, since n...

An Oct. 1 commentary in the Olean Times Herald, titled “Abortion and Faith,” stated that the Catholic Church teaches abortion is "not an inherent good...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “urgently” needs to “avoid further waste of taxpayer dollars” resulting from misguided purchases, according t...

After three columns about what communities risk losing when they stop supporting local journalism, it is time to talk about the people who have not st...