Commentary

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 ...

Everyone is talking about the Democratic National Convention, which got underway Monday in Chicago, but our minds turned to what we saw, or rather wha...

This year’s hottest back-to-school trend is one most students won’t like: cellphone bans. A growing number of districts across the country have enacte...

Last month, for the first time since March 2021, the consumer price index — the indicator of inflation — fell below 3% annual increase , hitting 2.9% ...

When we talk about catching waves over the summer, this is not the kind of wave we mean. Because as summer winds down, it’s not ocean waves many of us...

Democrats open their national convention Monday in Chicago, the largest city in Illinois, a state that perfectly encapsulates the dangers of their pro...

Whichever party wins independent voters will win the presidency and other key races this fall. A poll we at Unite America commissioned earlier this ye...

While Kamala Harris hides from unscripted events, Donald Trump can’t stop talking off the cuff. On Monday, the former president gave an interview to E...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying p...

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...

Apparently Saul Alinsky has been resurrected and is working as the chief propaganda coordinator for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Alinsky w...

Kamala Harris is hiding from tough questions, and Donald Trump appears wholly uninterested in the topic. As both major presidential candidates ignore ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s way past time to talk seriously about Trump Derangement Syndrome — his, not his critics’. For years it’s been clear to mental ...

Nearly 6,000 Internal Revenue Service employees and contractors owe $50 million in overdue taxes, according to a federal audit published in July. The ...

Americans’ views on free speech change directions every so often. One of those times was during the protests at U.S. universities about the Israel-Ham...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Depending on where you live and how you want to use it, it is pretty easy to get marijuana in the U.S. At first medical marijuana, wh...

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...