Commentary, Opinion
Jun 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 12, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — On Saturday, there will be a military parade in Washington in honor of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Coincidentally, the ...
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 12, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Protests erupted in Los Angeles and other cities, with streets filled with demonstrators clashing with police, National Guard troops ...
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...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
Ruth M. Baillargeon, mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
June 16, 2025
Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
