Breaking News
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Mar 08, 2023
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...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 08, 2023
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 ...
Letters To Editor
Mar 07, 2023
Say no to the proposed tax increase in the city of Olean. We don’t need an airport. We don’t need more city workers; the ones we have might work four ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 07, 2023
I am writing today to implore residents of the city of Olean to contact their alderman about the 2023-24 budget proposal and the 6% tax increase on pr...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 06, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — CNN anchor Don Lemon said on air last month that GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, 51, “isn’t in her prime.” Since then, Le...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 06, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced that he’s running for president, but he’s doing a convincing job of acting like a candidate. DeSantis, who ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 06, 2023
Heard of the malady termed “do-somethingism”? Certain elected officials are particularly susceptible, especially after a much-publicized disaster. It ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 05, 2023
At the risk of taking the bait, let us consider Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s proposal for a “national divorce” separating the “red” from the ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 05, 2023
Unfortunately for Ron DeSantis, expectations of him could not be higher. For a critical mass of Republicans seeking to move past Donald Trump, the Flo...
Nation World, Opinion
Mar 05, 2023
A hearty thank you to Eli Lilly, one of the planet’s top three producers of insulin, for slashing the price of its most widely prescribed form of insu...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 03, 2023
To get a sense of just how big the American defense budget is, consider that this year’s budget increase, $80 billion, is larger than the entire defen...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Mar 03, 2023
BRADFORD, Pa. — The drastic changes at Bradford hospital — the loss of its ICU, operating room and all 107 beds — are not mentioned in the primary leg...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 02, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — A report that the COVID-19 virus leaked from a lab in China is the latest former right-wing “conspiracy theory” that’s gaining traction...
Opinion
Mar 02, 2023
This is typical state thinking. Spend money at a record pace while making no attempt whatsoever to control spending or cut taxes. Then to get more rev...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 02, 2023
President Biden’s victory/self-congratulation tour of Kiev notwithstanding, as we enter the second year of the Russia-Ukraine War that we helped to pr...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 01, 2023
Note to politicians with presidential aspirations: Joining the Cabinet makes the path that much harder. Just ask Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York, ...
Mar 01, 2023
After years of effort from this column and elsewhere, in 2010 Congress created the World Trade Center Health Program and then in 2015 voted to keep it...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 01, 2023
As the war in Ukraine begins its second year, a new Fox News poll shows Americans divided nearly down the middle over how much and how long the United...
Breaking News, Local News, News
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
