Commentary

Editor's note: The Interfaith Community of the Olean area sponsored an essay contest for high school students, asking: Does faith have a role in heali...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has a Florida problem. Facing a ballooning budget deficit and an ever-narrowing lead in her reelection bid against Republic...

Editor's note: The Interfaith Community of the Olean area sponsored an essay contest for high school students, asking: Can faith have a role in healin...

A statistic in a retirement magazine startled me a little. AARP the Magazine noted that 65.3 million U.S. adults are considered “physically inactive.”...

Editor's note: The Interfaith Community of the Olean area sponsored an essay contest for high school students, asking: Can faith have a role in healin...

On St. Patrick’s Day, when those of us of Irish descent and even those poor souls not so blessed, were eating corned beef and cabbage, drinking Guines...

As a life resident and property owner in the town of Allegany, I served in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, including a tour in Vietnam. It came to my atte...

For years, the legal strategy against social media companies had largely focused on the content hosted on these sites, but that strategy hadn’t gained...

There's no question that the ongoing U.S./Israeli campaign against Iran has opened some fissures in the conservative/MAGA movement, and that in itself...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that she had no choice from a hostile federal government and had to change the state’s Essential Plan health coverage and thus ...

The federal government spent $8.4 million on purchases that included golf carts in fiscal year 2025, according to spending records obtained by Open th...

The White House has scheduled a party for Friday and you, taxpayer, will be picking up the check — in more ways than one. The Celebration of Agricultu...

For more than 100 years, Catholic Charities has stood alongside Western New Yorkers during some of the hardest chapters of their lives. Today, nearly ...

I am writing to provide and update to the situation regarding St. John the Evangelist Church in Olean. Our faithful have two appeals pending with the ...

It’s difficult to pinpoint one single issue, above all others, which must be addressed in the new state budget currently being negotiated by Gov. Kath...

Since its earliest days, the U.S. has been a nation of immigrants. Increasingly, it’s also a nation of emigrants — a trend that should alarm elected o...

Do you ever wonder if you’re on your phone too much or if other people are wondering the same thing? Do you ever catch your child asking you something...

During Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, as well as throughout his present term, he has echoed a continual statement of putting “America fir...