Opinion

Good morning, yesterday You wake up and time has slipped away… The shadows of misty yesteryears The good times and the bad you've seen And all the oth...

How often in life have you prepared to tackle a task only to realize you don’t have the right tool for the job? For instance, I used to think a simple...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In the push to regulate artificial intelligence, a dangerous idea is gaining ground in Washington: handing the government ownership s...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration canceled development on a new rocket launcher after already spending $1.4 billion on the project. Th...

There is no unilateral action that will bring the U.S.-led conflict with Iran to termination, and while both sides are incentivized in their own ways ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In an obituary in The Atlantic for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Robert Fontaine relates the following quotation from the late Republic...

The Pentagon has a well-deserved reputation for erring on the side of secrecy when classifying documents. Now it wants even more power to hide informa...

There's an old ploy of dropping bad news late on a Friday. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision took it to a cynical new low ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (TNS) — No morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. In June, the journal Nature declared that coffee is “critically threatene...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For the past decade, Democratic progressives have regularly challenged the party’s establishment, with intermittent success. This y...

Theories can be useful. But they’re even more useful if they survive real-world scrutiny. In 1920, Congress passed the Jones Act. It mandates that onl...

Cattaraugus County Legislator Brenda Hanson has commented on the failure of the Alle-Catt wind project to provide any public benefits. I’d like to off...

As of June 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was paying to store $2.9 million of rotten “super cereal” and $10 million of fo...

The nation has been consumed by gerrymandering madness, and New York lawmakers, sadly, are eager to join in. Gerrymandering, the drawing of districts ...

Recently, a nurse told me she had to choose between paying for her husband’s surgery and putting a new roof on their home. “We’re praying for no rain,...

CHICAGO (TNS) — If we want to consider what’s possible for Ukraine, the people of Poland are living proof. They gained freedom from communist rule at ...

The month of July is recognized as National Park and Recreation Month and it’s a designation certainly worthy of attention in Western New York and the...

Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims. The idea that fossil fuels are destroying the planet and wind and solar will save it is a bad idea — ...