Local Columnists

Before the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began Tuesday, it may have been tempting to think of it as a sequel to a show that had been can...

Figuring out how to combine science with fairness in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a tricky puzzle. Science can help predict how to distribute limi...

When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID relief bill, he met...

In a recent article the medical chief for Olean General Hospital, Dr. William Mills, noted that, “Vaccine panic is not warranted.” At best, Dr. Mills ...

Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, Ohio is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress. She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than ...

Congressman Tom Reed should be ashamed for immediately playing politics with the news that Siemens Energy is slashing 530 jobs at its Olean plant. A f...

Back in December, during a virtual meeting with progressive organizations, then-President-elect Joe Biden insisted that he would abide by constitution...

It’s almost time to put another meal on the table. What do you do on yet another winter day when you’ve been pretty much hibernating — or in terms rel...

I hope our transition to “one hospital with two campuses” won’t divide us. We are going to restructure Upper Allegheny Health System into centers of e...

ALBANY (TNS) — Laura Greco is looking for a restaurant job. Part-time is probably best. She isn’t looking to earn a little extra money. The job isn’t ...

I would like to bring some attention to the false claims that have been circulating through the town of Freedom regarding tax reductions and road repa...

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, decided to give science reporter Donald McNeil a second chance despite finding that he’d made...

Many years ago, as a young foreign correspondent, I went to Beirut to cover the Lebanese civil war. On the wall of the newsroom where I worked, someon...

There were roughly 25,000 National Guard members in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President Joe Biden. It has been normal practice to have...

Chinese officials and the country’s state-run media are engaged in a campaign not only to cast doubt about the origin of the coronavirus, but also to ...

Joe Biden is off to the most left-wing start of any Democratic president in recent memory. The dulcet tones of Biden’s inaugural address already seem ...

With all the attention on the Cuomo administration’s delay in disclosing the true number of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19, the reasons...

QAnon is such a weird theory that it’s tempting to think humanity is getting dumber. But it’s better seen as a highly sophisticated way of manipulatin...