Opinion

April 7-13 is National Library Week and each year it reminds me of what a wonderful asset the Olean Public Library is for our community. Where else ca...

The governor of Oregon has just signed a bill rolling back the state’s 2020 decriminalization of drugs. Battered by soaring substance abuse, overdose ...

Writer Coleman Hughes went on “The View” and was greeted almost as though he had shown up wearing a white hood. Hughes, a soft-spoken black intellectu...

National Public Health Week (April 1-7) is a time for us to reflect on the importance of the public health institutions in our community. The American...

The tip came from the enemy. So, of course, the president found it suspicious — and provocative. He was, after all, ex-KGB. But what came next would h...

We live in a world in which the vice president of the United States can and does say, as she did last week at a “marijuana reform roundtable” in Washi...

As we walked through the patchy snow to Uncle Lawrence’s sugar shack in the woods behind his house, the pungent smell of smoke greeted us as we drew n...

NBC created its own storm hiring former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to be a regular contributor. McDaniel’s support for Donald ...

Lately I’ve been looking forward to turning 60 and celebrating with a slug of strong black coffee, the way I once aspired to turn 21 with a rum and Co...

A little-noticed provision in lawmakers’ budget proposals would also be the most costly: their change to state retirement rules would slam New York ta...

Donald Trump was first indicted nearly a year ago, on April 4, 2023, when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced charges against the former...

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been laying the groundwork for a political comeback — most likely a run for mayor — by blasting current electeds for New York...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Vladimir Putin and his intelligence agencies are already blaming Friday’s hideous ISIS terror attack on a concert venue near Mosc...

One of President Joe Biden’s notable digressions when getting deposed by Special Counsel Robert Hur was about driving his beloved 1967 Corvette Stingr...

Owning a business in states like California and New York has become a challenge — unless you’re running a U-Haul franchise. The Census Bureau this mon...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I wonder what the people will look like. You know, the ones police in Texas are supposed to stop and question if they look as if t...

Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump is not the race America needs, but it is the one we deserve. A political system that has spit out a race few voters want is...

Public relations can sometimes be a cushy job. Not easy, mind you, but generally stable. Write a fluff piece here, hype up an event there and then hop...