Business, News, NY State News
Nov 29, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Environmental activists took a victory lap in the wake of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision last week to impose a two-year moratorium on fos...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 25, 2022
Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s “H...
Business, News, NY State News
Jul 04, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Climate activists and preservationists cheered the Hochul administration’s decision to deny an air emission permit to a major cryptomin...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 17, 2022
Jan. 10 marked the 40th anniversary of my favorite football memory. The San Francisco 49ers pulled off an 89-yard drive with an impressive play pass, ...
News, NY State News
Jan 26, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — With a 2019 state law calling for a zero carbon economy by 2040, a broad coalition of environmental and social justice activists Wednes...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 07, 2021
Remember the media cheers for Sen. John McCain when he stopped the effort to repeal Obamacare? McCain was a Republican frustrating a Republican policy...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 19, 2021
If you ever wondered what it was like to get pleas for help from Jewish friends in Europe as the Nazis marched in, and not be able to save them, I can...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 17, 2021
The reason Democrats in Washington are increasingly frustrated is because their legislative ambitions far outstrip their congressional majorities. The...
NY State News
Apr 18, 2021
ALBANY — A day after Mayor Kathy Sheehan compared Wednesday’s Black Lives Matter protest at the police department’s South Station to the Jan. 6 insurr...
News, NY State News
Mar 25, 2021
The nationwide reexamination of policing after the killing of George Floyd has led an Ivy League college town in Upstate New York to consider an ambit...
Business, News, NY State News
Nov 13, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — Young people including high school and college students have been key players in the climate change battle, with frequent rallies and c...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Sep 14, 2020
SARATOGA SPRINGS (TNS ) — David Peterson, an art professor at Skidmore College, says it was “civic interest and curiosity” that led him and his wife t...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 20, 2020
The Democrats are in the midst of their quadrennial convention buoyed by polls that show the Biden-Harris ticket with a lead over President Donald Tru...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 31, 2020
"Down with the Wall of Moms!" "Death to the Leaf-Blower Dads!" In George Orwell's classic novel "1984," members of the Outer Party stood in front of t...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 11, 2020
When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in...
Local News, NY State News
Jan 28, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — The State Legislature’s first joint budget hearing of the year got off to a stormy start. Protesters briefly flooded a hearing on envir...
Allegany County News, Business, News
Dec 19, 2019
ALBANY — This week marked the five-year anniversary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban on hydrofracking for natural gas. And while exploration firms have pret...
Cattaraugus County, Local News
Sep 28, 2019
OLEAN — On Tuesday, a birthday will be celebrated that has been 150 years in the making. The Hindu Society of Olean and Allegany, in collaboration wit...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Cathy Briggs, memorial service OLEAN — A memorial service for Cathy Briggs will be held Thursday (June 19, 2025) at Guenther Funeral Home, 1303 E. Sta...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
William S. Clemens ALLEGANY — William S. “Bill” Clemens, 74, of Allegany, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, surround...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
John R. Cornwall, loving husband, father and brother FREEDOM — John R. Cornwall, 75, of Freedom, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at his home, su...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Dennis L. Holliday, loving husband, father and grandfather LIMESTONE — Dennis L. Holliday, of Nichols Run Road, passed away Tuesday (June 10, 2025). D...
