Opinion

My recent visit to the civic religious shrines and historical museums in Philadelphia highlights the threat executive power poses to democracy. In 177...

It’s difficult to determine who was more enthusiastic about the results of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last week, the party’s progressi...

As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...

At the Right Thinkers meeting on June 16, Ginger Schroder stated that every Democrat she's talked to is totally in favor of massive amounts of illegal...

In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...

"Medical Aid in Dying Goes Down a Dangerous Path" in Thursday's edition of the Olean Times Herald has it all wrong. The Medical Aid in Dying Act is on...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, is in prime position to be elected the next mayor of New York City. R...

As the reality of President Donald Trump’s second term sinks in, many disillusioned voters are now saying, “This isn’t what I voted for.” The first fe...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Much of New York was under a state of emergency this past week because of a blistering heat wave. State and local authorities made cl...

Republicans, conservatives and Trumpers were horrified to learn earlier this month — in the wake of the pro-illegal immigration L.A. riots, no less — ...

Critics have lambasted President Donald Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe, but the president secured a major victory this week when NATO members a...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Earlier this month the state Senate passed the deceptively named Medical Aid in Dying Act, which had passed earlier in the Assembly. ...

You don’t realize how much you depend on your back for daily tasks until you’re dealing with an injury or pain. I suppose it’s the same for arms, legs...

It’s hard to believe that it’s nearly two decades since Gov. George Pataki left office in 2006 — the last New York governor to do so not because he ha...

The United States gave $960 million in foreign aid to Kenya in 2024, but the country’s auditor-general, Nancy Gathungu, says Kenya is struggling to us...

I would like to advocate on behalf of the Olean Public Library and its capital project. I’m a word nerd from way back in the day. From my first “grown...

For more than two decades, the United States has employed every tool short of direct military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. S...

In 1927, Allegany County marked a remarkable milestone: the 300th anniversary of the first recorded mention of oil in North America. The site, near Cu...