Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — If owning a home is still the American dream, then it is increasingly out of reach for many young Americans. The average age of a fir...

We have lived through the longest period of time in history that our government was shuttered. Both parties blame one another for the loss and delay o...

ALBANY (TNS) — Andrew Cuomo's defeat in the New York City mayor's race has led to predictable questions about what the former governor does next and w...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A friend once complained to me that people would sigh and roll their eyes when she used a credit card to pay for her $3 coffee. This ...

I didn’t realize how much I missed having a lot of light in my house until recently. Like a lot of folks who are (ahem) navigating the senior years, I...

My wife and I are small farmers. Farming is hard: when everything goes well, prices are low; when it doesn’t, there’s nothing to sell. Like many small...

People often refer to the TV show “Seinfeld” as “a show about nothing.” The refusal of most Senate Democrats to fund the government produced a shutdow...

In a recent column in the Times Herald, a young writer — claiming a special understanding of Gen Z — questioned how Zohran Mamdani captured the imagin...

Recently Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York was joining 14 other states in a “nonpartisan initiative” (though all 15 states have Democratic gov...

I am a retired martial arts instructor in Olean, and I would like to congratulate the young man, Aiden Richardson of Portville, for his enthusiasm on ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — By any metric, Tuesday’s elections were a blowout. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York City. The new D...

Bravo to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators for refusing to even consider President Donald Trump’s demand to get rid of t...

The election Tuesday of the charismatic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York sucked up a lot of media oxygen. Most pundits and editors live th...

H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Hello, New York City. On...

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...

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 ...

ALBANY (TNS) — The criminal charges lodged against New York Attorney General Letitia James by Donald Trump's Justice Department are weak and unworthy ...

The beginning of November reminds us that we are fast approaching a holiday season when one of the time-honored traditions is to gather around the tab...