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LOUDONVILLE — Ninety percent of New Yorkers agree that the opioid crisis is more insidious than previous public health crises, as overdosing on some o...

We who’ve been looking for spring after a harsh winter have experienced a few false starts between winter’s continuing blasts. When the calendar turne...

Earlier this week there was a marijuana bust by the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force. On Wednesday, the Times Herald posted a poll question on i...

Earlier this week, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York sent a letter to Siemens USA CEO Lisa Davis, urging a reconsideration of the pla...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, once known as "America's Mayor" and hailed for helping unite a wounded city after Sept. 11, has become the aggressive f...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced April 25 that he had sent a “cease and desist” letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, threatening to sue the ...

In our swift paced, speed-of-an-electron world, it seems that fast food and fast thumbs have taken over our lives. To be wealthy now is to be time ric...

(TNS) I had a chance to meet Bill Cosby when I was a little boy. Really, I had a chance to stand on stage with him and a bunch of other kids at an eve...

Over the weekend, comedian Michelle Wolf made headlines for her controversial and "vulgar" roast at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. She...

I read in the news the other day that schools in the United Kingdom are replacing analog clocks in exam rooms because students can’t read them. I laug...

LOUDONVILLE — Over the last two years, 24 percent of New Yorkers have been prescribed opioids for pain by a doctor, according to Part III of a Siena C...

Some things are like politics. If you have your own views and they are pretty strong, even set, it’s going to be hard for anybody to change your mind....

The United States needs to keep the military option on the table in dealing with the rogue regime in North Korea, its recent diplomatic overtures notw...

I enjoyed Jim Eckstrom’s column on frackwater in the April 19 edition of the Olean Times Herald. After more than 45 years in engineering, I have moved...

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi, poet, 13th century “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning, poet, 19th cent...

Complaining about the government is our national blood sport. Decades of conditioning by cable “news” networks, where Jerry Springer-style squabbling ...

People say, “Let’s just agree on some common-sense gun laws,” as though we don’t have plenty of gun laws now, or there’s no common sense in the ones w...

(TNS) Two surveys popped up last week that seem to show improved prospects for Republican House candidates this November. Disregard them! A Washington...