Local Columnists

It’s been a long time coming, but the old SPCA of Cattaraugus County building is getting a new look, and a new lease on life. Phase 1 of the long hope...

I love spring. Opening windows so the long-awaited fresh air can come in. Listening to birdsong waft in on a breeze. Watching the parade of kids on th...

A well-informed newsman said to me recently that “In my opinion, Nixon was more dangerous than Trump. Do you agree?” No. And I disagree because althou...

Poor Sleepy Joe. He just can’t catch a break. Recently he abandoned his decades-long support of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abo...

It hasn’t always been easy, finding myself as a father with two grown sons, both very much into their own lives and futures. I’m still there to give a...

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Did some of those aspirations come true? When you left high school did your dream get...

This coming Tuesday will be the only chance we will have to tell state regulators about what we think about our small towns and county being industria...

In 1934 an author named James Hilton wrote a novel that within weeks of publication became a runaway bestseller. Hilton called the book “Good-bye, Mr....

If there is one “big idea” that all Republicans have embraced since the 1980s Reagan era, it’s that tax cuts are always good for the economy. This con...

Editor’s Note: This column by famed World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle was released for use by the Ernie Pyle World War II Museum in Dana, Indiana,...

In April I suggested that President Trump consider gradually escalating tariffs against Mexico to compel that country to end the flow of illegal immig...

Given the relative wave of blue states legalizing marijuana, from California to Colorado to Massachusetts, one would have thought that progressive-con...

Some people are cat people. Others are dog people. A few are mixed saying they keep both around the house or farm. I am very squarely in the cat lover...

A new front has opened up in America’s culture wars, and specifically in the Left's ongoing effort to stigmatize even the most innocuous elements of o...

Last month a group of veterans I was stationed with in Baghdad, Iraq from 2008-9 met in Florida for our much-anticipated reunion. Sadly, last year we ...

I have a confession: writing this column seemed like a daunting task. With Memorial Day weekend being the unofficial start of summer, my editor propos...

On May 20, President Donald Trump paid a visit to northcentral Pennsylvania, addressing a MAGA rally in a hangar at the Williamsport Regional Airport....

I’ve heard that pride is not a good thing; it “comes before a fall,” based on a Bible proverb. Still, I was pretty proud of myself this weekend. I mad...