Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 19, 2022
Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In toda...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 03, 2022
It’s national budget time in Washington, so the conversation on Capitol Hill is focused on numbers. But an important number is being overlooked, one t...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Feb 19, 2022
In honor of Black History Month, I thought that it might be useful to share some of what I learned as a white child growing up in Alabama before and d...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 04, 2022
The Affordable Care Act, which not that long ago appeared doomed by Republican determination to kill it, has quietly become an integral and accepted p...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 27, 2022
American voters have been trying to tell political parties and elected officials what they want, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t want. T...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 19, 2022
A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 29, 2021
Technological achievements throughout human history have been met with skepticism and condemnation. While most people ultimately laud such achievement...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 02, 2021
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond w...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 17, 2021
What can sensible adults agree on regarding Kyle Rittenhouse, the latest young symbol on whom America can hang its devastating internal division and t...
Nov 10, 2021
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker would not have fallen into the trap that befell Terry McAuliffe, the hapless Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 02, 2021
Headlines are projecting that the prospects for the upcoming holidays look bleak. COVID-19 is in retreat, thankfully, but new obstacles to the season’...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 30, 2021
In 1947, more than 4 million Americans owned $3.4 billion in saving deposits held not by a bank or credit union, but by the U.S. Postal Service. It’s ...
Letters To Editor
Oct 23, 2021
With the threat of another government shutdown averted by the raise of the debt ceiling level, all is well — or is it? This was the 79th time since 19...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Sep 24, 2021
Americans on the home front are exhausted from a marathon of foreign fallout. As the Taliban cancels this semester’s gender studies curriculum at the ...
News, NY State News
Sep 13, 2021
SYRACUSE (TNS) — A Syracuse University professor’s controversial social media comments about 9/11 have triggered threats and calls for the school to f...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 11, 2021
It is understandable, given the chaos surrounding the U.S. exit from Afghanistan — especially the murder of the 13 U.S. troops — that our attention ha...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 07, 2021
On that day 20 years ago this week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on Pentagon bureaucracy, saying that it was a threat to national...
Business, Local News, News
July 1, 2025
LIMESTONE — For husband and wife team Jay and Tracy Little, the goal has always been to own a restaurant of their own serving the community that they ...
Local News, News, NY State News
July 1, 2025
The race for New York governor begins in earnest in 2026, but in early summer 2025 Gov. Kathy Hochul leads each of three potential Republican challeng...
Local News, News, NY State News
July 1, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — New York has a permanent state office dedicated to combating gun violence in what Gov. Kathy Hochul describes as a rebuke to President ...
Local News, News
July 1, 2025
There will be no edition of the Olean Times Herald printed for Friday due to the Fourth of July federal holiday. So that OTH news and sports staffs ca...
Commentary, Opinion
July 1, 2025
Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...
Commentary, Opinion
July 1, 2025
State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...
