Commentary, Opinion
Jun 13, 2025
WASHINGTON — As the Senate debates the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” Americans should brace for a larger federal budget deficit and national debt. We’re...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 13, 2025
I thought I had the perfect setup for summer — until the birds came. And the stray cat. And the squirrel. Since last fall, I have been giving my cats,...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 11, 2025
"To say that I’m a frustrated dairy farmer in New York state would be an understatement. I don’t understand how a bill like this even gets remotely th...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 11, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In one of the most perceptive gags in one of the best television comedies of all time, "Arrested Development," the effete therapist...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 10, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Sometimes it takes a self-indulgent public-relations stunt to remind us of what’s important. Monday’s inevitably intercepted aid flot...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 10, 2025
On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the C...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 09, 2025
ANDOVER — Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has crashed the Irish Festival — drunk, pushy and getting in everyone’s face with some of the most obnoxious...
Commentary, Opinion
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
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
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...
Commentary, Opinion
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
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...
Commentary, Opinion
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
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...
Articles, Commentary, Nation World
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...
Articles, Commentary, Nation World
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...
Articles, Commentary, Nation World
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...
Articles, Commentary, Nation World
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...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Victor ia Elizabeth 'Torie' Jimenez Wiley OAXACA, Mexico — Victor ia Elizabeth “Torie” Jimenez Wiley, age 35, passed away Oct. 7, 2024, in Oaxaca, aft...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The Olean African American Center for Cultural Development will hold a Juneteenth celebration from noon to 3 p.m. June 28 at Bethany Lutheran ...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
BELMONT — In response to overwhelming community interest in her acclaimed “Community Unity Wreath” project, local artist Susan Doran will host a serie...
Crime, News
June 14, 2025
Olean Police Monday, 1:15 p.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of North Union Street and the Olean Ce...
News
June 14, 2025
Local Forecast Today will be overcast with rain tapering off in the afternoon and a high of 67. Tonight will be cloudy with an overnight low of 59. Su...
Local News, News, Outdoors
June 14, 2025
In the last column, I wrote about birders "chasing a bird," which means going out of our way to see a rare or unusual bird. I wrote that chasing a rar...
