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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
May 04, 2022
The New York Legislature can move mighty slow on weighty political matters. In 1776, they abstained on joining with the 12 other colonies to declare i...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
May 04, 2022
ALBANY (TBS) — Tom Suozzi’s late November announcement that he would run for governor was mostly met with confusion and indifference, in part because ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 22, 2022
It looks like disgraced ex-Lt. Gov Brian Benjamin’s defense will resort to the “get out of jail free” card that worked for former New York Mayor Bill ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Apr 22, 2022
A deadly epidemic has struck birds across the United States and, while it’s no COVID-19, the consequences are far-reaching. Avian influenza, often cal...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 21, 2022
A holiday-delayed Tax Day arrived earlier this week and with it no refund for 3.9 million New Yorkers who had the double misfortune to lose their jobs...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 18, 2022
For many months after she took over from Andrew Cuomo last Aug. 24, it was good enough for Gov. Kathy Hochul to be seeming to turn a page. Gone were h...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 17, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — In Andrew Cuomo’s first speech as governor, he promised he would remake a state government mired in scandal and tainted by corruption. ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 14, 2022
The latest corruption scandal rocks Albany, and its timing is stunning — placing Gov. Kathy Hochul, with only 7 1/2 months in office, in a terrible po...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 12, 2022
Twenty-one experts with intimate, ground-level views of the immense pain and extraordinary need resulting from opioid overprescription and abuse, incl...
New York, Opinion
Apr 06, 2022
Should the state budget be finalized today or tonight or tomorrow or whenever — and regardless of how many extra billions it spends, including corpora...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 06, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Warning! Residents of a certain region near and dear to our hearts might find that an upcoming quote triggers anger or emotional distre...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 30, 2022
Final arguments were today in a Steuben County courthouse on the shape of congressional and state Senate districts. The case made by the plaintiffs (w...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 28, 2022
NEW YORK (TNS) — When is Andrew Cuomo going to get the message? Nobody wants him around anymore. The world has moved on. But the former governor is no...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 24, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Given that I have penned 3,494,883 columns critical of Andrew Cuomo and perhaps only one that could be described as flattering, it seem...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 20, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Andrew Cuomo was dishonest about nursing home deaths. An audit from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli makes that clear. The former gove...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 16, 2022
e Week, created by the American Society of News Editors and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 2005 to coincide with the March 16 bir...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 16, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — A lot of terrible ideas and proposals have come out of the Capitol over the years — too many to count, really. But a plan announced las...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 09, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — For a column about gerrymandering, it feels necessary to start with a few caveats. First, Republicans and Democrats both do it, and, de...
Local News, News
November 5, 2025
The echoes of laughter and fun from Halloween have barely faded, yet it's time to look ahead at some very worthy efforts by dedicated people who work ...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
November 5, 2025
Two county-wide elections in Cattaraugus County — district attorney and coroner on Tuesday — were no contest. Ashley Smith, who ran unopposed on the R...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
November 4, 2025
Mobilizations to collect food items — as well as cash donations — for food pantries to benefit households cut off from federal nutrition benefits cont...
Local Sports, Sports, Volleyball
November 4, 2025
OLEAN — Wednesday and Thursday are packed with local high schools competing in sectional finals, demonstrating a very successful season for teams in t...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
November 4, 2025
ALLEGANY — Finding others who understand your grief can make all the difference. HomeCare & Hospice invites community members to take part in its free...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
November 4, 2025
ORCHARD PARK — There was a flip to Keon Coleman for a first down. Jackson Hawes caught one for 18 yards later in the game. On a day he went 23 of 26 a...
