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Imagine Houghton without Houghton or Ithaca without Ithaca. Elmira without Elmira or Utica without Utica. Now imagine Allegany and Olean without St. B...

When my phone began ringing late one night last week, I grabbed it, concerned it might be my elderly mother or another relative in need of something. ...

In any parent’s life, the most significant element to being a parent is the care of our children. What is more important than knowing that those entru...

Libraries are devoted to it. Books by the yard tell us what to think about it. Travel. A simple enough word. Yet what exactly is it? Why do we engage ...

Sometimes a comment will stimulate thoughts you hadn’t really considered. My sister-in-law, Robin, was visiting my house in Portville one day and look...

Shortly after the Nov. 8 election, I wrote an “Our View” editorial that touched in part on the shocked reaction so-called elites in politics and gover...

In the immortal words of Jeff Probst, host of the CBS television show “Survivor”: “The tribe has spoken.” And so, Friday, in the acclaimed “peaceful t...

Glyburide, a drug used to control blood-sugar levels in patients with Type II diabetes, is part of an investigation over price-fixing practices. The I...

Any U.S. senator who votes to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education should be jammed into a burn barrel and launched into the Potomac River. D...

I’ve had a rough week. First, my basement flooded. It wasn’t just some water to push into a drain like typically happens after a snowmelt or hard rain...

In an initial interview, as Sister Margaret Carney plunged deeper into cancer treatment in August, she didn’t wish to discuss the nation’s political c...

When I was a college student signing up for classes at the University of Toledo, I had my dad’s credit card in my pocket. I filled up my schedule and ...

Dollar signs danced through my head after news last week about Megyn Kelly, Congressman Tom Reed and Obamacare. Let’s start with Kelly and her new NBC...

The magazines in the checkout aisle seem to scream a message: “Get Organized.” A headline on my latest trade magazine for writers reads, “Get Organize...

A reporter on the campaign trail tells a story about Obama that you probably never heard. When speaking at a Clinton rally in Fayetteville, N.C. a few...

Over the past week many of us have heard the traditional Christmas story, again — the one Linus recites in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It’s found in ...

In an article in Artvoice, Buffalo developer, school board member and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is quoted as saying in 2...

My brother is a writer by trade. His name is Robert Littell. He has lived in France for close on half a century. He has a house in the south of the co...