Opinion

The demise of Silicon Valley Bank has put the U.S. government into an uncomfortable position, backstopping depositors like never before to prevent a b...

We learned recently that, once again, Novak Djokovic, the world’s greatest tennis player, will be barred from competing in the U.S. because he isn’t v...

It’s Sunshine Week, a nationwide annual occurrence when open government advocates and the press push for greater transparency in how the public’s busi...

When we talk about the need for government transparency and the battle to keep government open and honest, there’s a part of the conversation that’s u...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to lift a cap on charter schools. That’s a good idea, albeit a rather modest one, but you wouldn’t know it by t...

President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction. A party platfo...

We are being watched. There are surveillance cameras everywhere — in subway stations, on street corners, on highways and byways, in parking lots, in b...

The Olean City School District thinks reading, writing and arithmetic is reading, writing ... and football. The district wants to spend approximately ...

It’s been nearly 60 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act. The signing was done out of the view of the public, ir...

Los Angeles County, a bastion of left-wing politics, removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls in February — a move the Democrats fre...

The violent protest against the construction of a police training center in Atlanta exemplifies how little the radical left has learned since the 2020...

Thanks to the presence of George Santos (or Anthony Devolder or any other alias the con man may be using) being a freshman member of Congress from New...

In Wednesday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald, two letters to the editor in regard to the proposed city tax increase piqued my interest. Much of wh...

I, too, am writing to implore the residents of the city of Olean to contact their alderman about the 2023-24 budget proposal and the 6% tax increase o...

I have mixed feelings about many of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s policies, but he will always be a hero to me. I can’t help but admire his determination...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — It is quite stunning to watch the elected leader of a democracy drag his country toward authoritarianism and a civil war — and al...

I was binge-watching an old TV series recently. The clothes the actors were wearing took me by surprise as I entertained thoughts such as, “Well, THAT...

ALBANY (TNS) — A top concern of most Albany lawmakers is job security. They don’t want to make it easy for voters to choose somebody else. That helps ...