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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
Mar 08, 2022
Acting Steuben County state Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister shouldn’t worry about the calendar for this year’s primary for Congress and state...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 08, 2022
NEW YORK (TNS) — When Rudy Giuliani ran for mayor, he was an accomplished U.S. Attorney who’d helped put mobsters, Wall Street robber barons and crook...
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Feb 14, 2022
DETROIT (TNS) — When the first COVID-19 mandates were issued in hopes of turning back a mysterious pandemic, there wasn’t enough science or data avail...
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Feb 12, 2022
There was grim news out ofWashingtonfor high-income earners in blue states like New York, as talks over increasing the deductibility of state and loca...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Feb 11, 2022
Redistricting is one of those topics that causes eyes to glaze over. Insiders throw around words like compactness, communities of interest, packing, c...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Feb 09, 2022
New York’s approach to gambling continues to insult citizens’ intelligence and the state Constitution New York State’s top judges will get a mulligan ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Feb 04, 2022
Gerrymandering is an old enough practice that it was named for a Founding Father, Elbridge Gerry, but henceforth in New York it should be spelled jerr...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 28, 2022
A change in the New York State Returnable Consumer Law, also known as the Bottle Bill, has been introduced in the state Legislature. Assemblyman Kevin...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 27, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Declining to speak ill of the dead is probably a good rule of thumb and, generally speaking, the honorable path. But different standard...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 26, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — For years, New Yorkers could count on Andrew Cuomo having more campaign cash than any politician in the state. That was one of the defi...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 25, 2022
Yes, our national discourse has been consumed with an incendiary lie about a stolen presidential election that’s become a mass delusion — and New York...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 22, 2022
Just before the start of the New Year, Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have allowed forest rangers and environmental conservation officers ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 21, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — I worry about cynicism. I worry that it and its closely related cousin, distrust, are consuming our minds and destroying our politics. ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 21, 2022
In crafting the $216 billion budget she released Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul faced a “dilemma” every pol dreams of: an insane gusher of cash thanks to ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 20, 2022
In unveiling her executive budget, Gov. Hochul kept her remarks brief and let Budget Director Rob Mujica handle the details. The message was clear: Sh...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 15, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Glenn Youngkin is a mild-mannered Republican with a hedge-fund background who ran for governor in a blue state. Despite almost no polit...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
New York Democrats are so intent on locking in one-party rule, they’re blatantly defying what the voters just told them. The latest example: On Monday...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 12, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — In 1950, eight years before Gov. Kathy Hochul was born, Buffalo was America’s 15th largest city. Nearly 600,000 people lived there. But...
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...
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November 5, 2025
OLEAN — A local nonprofit received city backing to get exempted from a back tax bill. The Common Council unanimously passed a resolution to support Op...
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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...
