Local Columnists

The Portville school district sends out a newsletter to all residents each August. I always read it with interest, even though this issue is largely a...

With the first opportunity to vote early just days away, the presidential election is about to move from mere theory to practical applications. That i...

The straightforward fact remains that every time New Yorkers go the grocery store, or the gas station, or to buy back-to-school supplies for their chi...

As an older citizen observing the effects of the progressive movement, here are some things that differ greatly from my old-fashioned times. Tattoos a...

Have you had a chance to experience and appreciate the beauty of our state recently? It’s so easy to take our surroundings for granted. Most of us can...

Here in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, our United Way helps people make a difference for our neighbors, especially when it comes to health, youth ...

It took me till the end of our first long cruise in the summer of 1953 to realize what was happening. That brotherhood thing — the unbreakable bond th...

Several weeks ago, I highlighted that a long-awaited report on New York state’s COVID-19 pandemic response, first commissioned by Gov. Kathy Hochul mo...

There’s an ad on TV that shows a guy making some crazy dance moves. A voiceover reminds viewers that maybe their own reaction to music has been passed...

Earlier this summer, I was joined by my wife Karen, stepdaughter Ivy and her fiancé, Brian Bagley of Lakewood, Colorado, and one of my closest friends...

The Olympics, not the games underway in Paris right now, those aren’t what’s making me pause to write this column — although gymnast Simone Biles is p...

I am against the logging project in Zoar Valley planned by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation based on a Connecticut Audubon plan...

I think I have found evidence I was always something of a news junkie. It points to times long before I officially became a journalist and began worki...

Not that we needed another poll to tell us that New York state is getting increasingly more unaffordable, but recent statewide polling from the Siena ...

It’s official. I have reached the age of mysterious injuries. I’ve slept wrong, stepped wrong and reached my arm wrong. I’ve found scratches, cuts, bu...

The Alle-Catt Wind project has come a long way since starting development more than eight years ago. We’ve recently started construction on our Operat...

I’ve always had a deep love for libraries. I remember the excitement every time our family walked into a library, thrilled by all the books. When I wa...

The nation’s media, consumed with President Joe Biden’s troubled debate performance, has given little attention to the July 1 decision by the U.S. Sup...