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The Pfizer vaccine, along with its likely successors, is a very good thing for the U.S. and the world. Yet it's also likely to reshape America in some...

Last week, the United States got a preview of the future envisioned for it by some of the far-left Democrats now stepping to the pay window to collect...

There is one clear leading indicator pointing to President Donald Trump still having a chance to win the election — stores around America are fortifyi...

The Pope Francis documentary, “Francesco,” has certainly commanded some attention. Longtime pope followers like me know to take the hubbub with a grai...

Pat McCumiskey is a local legend. Anyone who played high-school or town-team sports during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s in Allegany County knows his mythi...

It was utterly amazing, the first hearing of the Senate on giving its consent to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Th...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling tel...

Editor’s Note: These commentaries are a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly with area residents, in hopes of cre...

Nicholas Waddy, a blatherskite if there ever was one, is sure that Black Lives Matter is “a hate group determined to malign the police, white people a...

BUFFALO (TNS ) — Western New York businessman Carl Paladin o is recovering from COVID-19 after being hospitalized this month, according to a new repor...

Stress can affect people’s lives at any moment. Some say that a certain measure of stress can be a good thing that pushes individuals to try their bes...

Recently, a group of college students challenged me, asking, “Why are you conservatives so into the Constitution and all this ‘originalist’ stuff?” In...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area residen...

Ask people what comes to mind with the mention of “Labor Day,” and you will most likely hear two responses: “Back to school” and “Can’t wear white.” T...

Everyone knows that the Declaration of Independence guarantees Americans “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” but less well known is the fac...

Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, but it’s still discernibly the Republican Party. The Republican National Convention was obviously very Tr...

WASHINGTON — Facing a national moment fraught with racial turmoil and a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump accepted his party's renomination on a...

Nikki Haley proved that she learned something by working in Donald Trump’s administration. She can look America dead in the eye and lie. “America is n...