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November 4, 2025
OLEAN — The 28th mayor of the city has been selected. Surrounded by officials from both the Republican and Democratic parties, first-time candidate Am...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Nov 05, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — Did Republicans in New York have a good Election Day? Or was it just a bad day for progressives? Those may seem like one in the same, b...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Nov 03, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — It’s a short walk from the Executive Mansion to the Albany City Court, but the buildings are a world apart in every way that matters. T...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Oct 20, 2021
What will happen when New York’s moratorium on evictions ends in January? Housing advocates fear a wave of evictions that could push residents from th...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Oct 15, 2021
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity to not just put up fliers and circulate hotline numbers, but to talk about things th...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Oct 11, 2021
New Yorkers could have affordable and quality health insurance but politicians are standing in the way. Despite gaining majority support in both the N...
New York, Opinion
Oct 08, 2021
The state’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday on a question: Are daily fantasy sports like those run by DraftKings and FanDuel, which allow people...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Oct 07, 2021
In the old days, the Committee on Open Government was an advocate for the people, even though it was couched in a government department overseen by th...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Sep 29, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — A year ago, health care workers were the undisputed heroes of the pandemic, and rightly so. When COVID-19 was novel and unknown, when t...
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Sep 21, 2021
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended last week’s Met Gala wearing a dress emblazoned with the slogan “Tax the Rich.” It’s certainly catchier than wh...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Sep 09, 2021
As President Biden toured the sites of calamitous flooding in New York and New Jersey, flanked by every imaginable local elected official, he had plen...
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Sep 08, 2021
We’re coming up on a month since Canada opened its border to non-essential travel by vaccinated Americans. The United States has failed to reciprocate...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Sep 02, 2021
ALBANY (AP) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned from office in disgrace, but there are 18 million reasons to believe he will remain a force in state p...
Local Columnists, New York
Aug 27, 2021
Kathy Hochul’s first speech as governor of New York stuck to the tradition for initial inaugurals: blessedly brief, general themes, details (implicitl...
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Aug 20, 2021
Shifting away from his Afghan debacle, President Biden went back Wednesday to that other war, COVID, with a two-prong attack on the enemy: Vaccines an...
Local Columnists, New York
Aug 19, 2021
The Assembly Judiciary Committee was right to say that impeachment would come off the table when Gov. Cuomo resigns early next week. Unlike the U.S.Co...
Local Columnists, New York
Aug 12, 2021
SYRACUSE (TNS)— Women are about to dominate politics and government inNew York state. For the first time in history, there are more women than men in ...
Local Columnists, New York
Aug 12, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — New York will be better for this. Andrew Cuomo had to go. No matter what you think of the man or his politics, the governor and his man...
Local Columnists, New York
Aug 06, 2021
NEW YORK — When President Richard Nixon was neck deep in the Watergate scandal and faced impeachment in the House of Representatives and a trial in th...
Local News, News
November 5, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — Bradford Little Theatre is presenting the family-friendly musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” Friday through Sunday on the Bradford Area High...
Commentary, Opinion
November 5, 2025
OLEAN — It was no ordinary day in fifth grade. Usually deemed the most stressful day of the school year, the dreaded sugar rush and hyperactivity of H...
Commentary, Opinion
November 5, 2025
I’m a YouTube TV subscriber and a lifelong football fan, and right now I’m furious. In my house, fall weekends are sacred. I grew up in Kansas, where ...
Local News, News
November 5, 2025
ALLEGANY — Five Mile Baptist Church has announced it has welcomed Pastor Mark Yuhnke — with this Sunday his first in leading the congregation. Yuhnke ...
Commentary, Opinion
November 5, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — The criminal charges lodged against New York Attorney General Letitia James by Donald Trump's Justice Department are weak and unworthy ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
November 5, 2025
RANDOLPH — The Randolph Central School District recently hosted its annual Wall of Fame induction dinner at the Cardinal Hills Golf Course. The Oct. 4...
