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Once in a while all the stars align and I get to experience what I envisioned. Six years ago, I was working every day, sometimes evenings and weekends...

The news is filled with reports of President Trump’s “assault” on the U.S. Postal Service. Democrats and some in the media say the president is delibe...

CHICAGO — The union between Black Lives Matter and mainstream America has been tenuous from the start. Last week, it may have been irreparably severed...

At this point in the pandemic, there seem to be two primary sensibilities about how to approach the virus. The first says the threat of COVID-19 is so...

ALBANY (TNS) — Wayne LaPierre, child of Schenectady and head of the National Rifle Association, is a loathsome fellow. That’s been obvious for many ye...

President Trump did a very great thing in forging peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, making it the third Arab state to establish norma...

In a July 25 Buffalo News article, Jeff Dewart, Wright Ellis and Jim Simon, elected supervisors in the New York towns of Somerset, Cambria and Yates, ...

NEW YORK (TNS ) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has chosen U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California to be his running mate. The move is sur...

Joe Biden took his time selecting a running mate, which seemed prudent. But he came up with Sen. Kamala Harris of California, which seems anticlimacti...

QAnon is getting its first congresswoman. Marjorie Taylor Greene won a runoff in a Republican primary Tuesday, all but assuring her victory in Novembe...

If you’re feeling a little blue right now, you’re not alone. This is typically a time of year that people are happily taking off for a final run at su...

New York state Attorney General Letitia James has pointed a loaded gun at the National Rifle Association, accusing its leaders of fraud and self-deali...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area people ...

Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York and other major cities are experiencing a breakdown of order — violence and conflict that i...

On the one hand, Joe Biden — who is running as the candidate who promises to make the presidency boring again — made the most obvious — that is, borin...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area citizen...

If more than 4.4 million infected Americans and more than 151,000 deaths didn’t fully drive home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic for Presiden...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a grand failure. “What d...