Local Columnists

CARNEGIE, Pa. (AP) — Shadowed by the Trump presidency and the potential impact of a special election in a midterm year, voters in a western Pennsylvan...

Congress’s passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was a great leap forward in terms of U.S. tax policy. Tax rates were lowered across the board,...

The strong voices of Parkland, Fla., teens and parents have been heard. On Wednesday the Florida Legislature, mostly Republicans, voted to approve a g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It started as a bipartisan attempt to curb soaring health care premiums. But Congress' effort to stabilize the nation's insurance ma...

ALBANY — State Sen. Catharine Young blasts New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as a hypocrite for trying to parse his way out of taking responsibility ...

Candidate Donald Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp” seem so long ago. These days, President Trump’s White House is looking absolutely swamped. And ...

For Senate Democrats, voting against the Republican tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law wasn’t opposition enough. Now they have a pla...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an open letter Wednesday to President Trump on what he calls the nation’s gun crisis. It follows here: The old adage is right...

(TNS) President Donald Trump’s decision to attend this year’s Gridiron Club dinner, his first presidential appearance at a major Washington press even...

As someone who has had the opportunity to experience 17 years of a Catholic education, reading the article in the Times Herald about sexual abuse by a...

Western New York is so physically enchanting, it’s easy to forget we have a serious hunger and poverty problem. At least 6,000 people in Allegany Coun...

The headlines scream healthcare confusion: “CVS/Aetna merge in healthcare megadeal” “Amazon teams with BerkshireHathaway and JP Morgan to address heal...

Most of us at some time or another have had some electrical device malfunction, short out or simply cease functioning. The more analytical of us disma...

In the wake of the horrific Parkland, Florida school shooting, President Trump has unveiled a number of proposals to increase school safety. His best ...

I remember stopping at Olean’s Genesis House after it opened more than 20 years ago. Some forward-looking local residents had pulled together a coalit...

A journalist friend in Michigan wrote periodic columns he called, “Cleaning Out My Mind,” or something like that. These weren’t always a full column o...

I love watching the Winter Olympics, and I love it even more in the era of multiple channels and internet streaming because it gives me a chance to wa...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has joined with his fellows in Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island to create a coalition of like-minded states on gun control, ...