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In two recent editorials I examined some of the reasons why so many (predominantly white) Evangelical Christians support Donald Trump and why other Ev...

The other day I was trying to remember the last time I had a good sleep. It must have been a weekend back in the mid-1960s before it became our job to...

When I was driving around with an old friend and classmate last week, she said something that remains on my mind. “I guess I never found my passion,” ...

Many of us can remember the time when research of any topic often involved hours perusing scholarly tomes and magazine articles in a local library or ...

In a previous column I explored why 80% of white Evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and why most of thos...

It is oftentimes at reunions that we remember our connections to others, ties that bind, a unity that cannot be broken. Last weekend, many former clas...

Driving along Front Street the other day I saw a sight that made me smile. A crew of boys and girls — they looked about 10 or so — were riding their b...

It is oftentimes at reunions that we remember our connections to others, ties that bind, a unity that cannot be broken. Last weekend, many former clas...

On July 15, a Freedom Town Board majority voted yes on the Host Community Agreement and Road Use Agreement, 3-2. In my view, illegally. Once again, ou...

Immigration issues in the United States long ago devolved into the surreal, but it was still an eyebrow-raiser on Friday to see a press release from G...

Have you ever had one of those weeks? Me too! In fact, I’m having one right now and it’s only Tuesday. Truthfully, this week extends some issues from ...

In the 2016 presidential election, 81% of white Evangelical Christian voters chose Donald Trump, a man whose personal history and treatment of others ...

Americans were rightly bewildered to learn that, in the eyes of Colin Kaepernick and the Nike Corp., the “Betsy Ross flag” that flew over the young Un...

As we celebrate the Fourth of July in the U.S., we celebrate our ancestors who won independence from British rule. We also celebrate our Constitution ...

In the June 27 issue of the Arcade Herald, Freedom Town Supervisor Randy Lester claimed that he is attempting to bring wind turbines into the area “fo...

Western New Yorkers have heard a lot of information about Invenergy’s Alle-Catt Wind Farm. Some of it true and some of it untrue, and I believe you ar...

More than a quarter of a century ago, John Gray, an American author and relationship counselor, penned a book that skyrocketed in sales: "Men Are from...

Sometimes an offhand remark, no matter how innocent, has the ability to cut like a knife. The other day, a story was in The Bradford Era about the clo...