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Trump’s miserable month
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 18, 2022
So far, Donald Trump is having the worst campaign launch since Beto O’Rourke. Like almost everything else he’s done lately, his early announcement of ...
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Politics will never be the same with caucus change
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LZ GRANDERSON Tribune News Service 
Dec 06, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Every presidential election year, when the pundits start buzzing about the Democrats’ nominee for president before Black voters ha...
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Don’t count Trump out yet
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 15, 2022
Donald Trump is in his weakest political state since 2015 or early 2016. During his presidency, when he was at the center of countless intense controv...
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Get ready for election month as denialism spreads
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 07, 2022
Don’t expect to learn the results of this year’s midterm contests on election night. Just as in 2020, we’re in for a drawn-out election week, followed...
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No, democracy is not on the ballot
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 01, 2022
Democracy is under threat — the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worr...
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Spin election results now, win political battles later
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Tribune News Service 
Oct 30, 2022
The polls won’t close for more than a week, but there already is plenty of spin casting blame and taking credit for midterm wins and losses. Yet as mi...
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Hinsdale town justice post to come open
Cattaraugus County, News
Olean Times Herald staff 
Oct 28, 2022
HINSDALE — The town of Hinsdale recently learned that there will be an opening for the town justice position in early 2023. Town officials said they a...
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Semploinski concerned over COVID vaccine mandate for kids
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
Oct 28, 2022
Rep. Joe Sempolinski, R-Canisteo, expressed concern this week after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended COVID-19 vaccin...
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An invitation-only party in NY
New York, Opinion
Oct 23, 2022
On Wednesday, in a one-sentence summary order, threeManhattanfederal appeals court judges sealedNew Yorkas a two-party state. Without explanation or e...
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Show us the big money in elections
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 30, 2022
Senate Republicans are bending over backward to block a bill that would tell the public who is giving large sums of money to groups that take out ads ...
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GOP candidates flee Trump’s lie
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 21, 2022
Just one month ago, New Hampshire Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc boldly and emphatically declared his belief that the 2020 presidential e...
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Time for improved NY primaries
New York, Opinion
Aug 27, 2022
Midterm primary turnout is never very good, but two infuriatingly bifurcated voting dates in New York this year drove participation lower still, with ...
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Trump is the establishment frontrunner in 2024
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 05, 2022
In 2015, Donald Trump burst on the scene with a megaphone, a populist message, an army of grass-roots supporters — and not much else. If he runs for t...
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Voting in NY’s primary elections concludes today
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News
Olean Times Herald staff 
Jun 28, 2022
Registered Democrats and Republicans have one last chance today to choose their party’s nominees for governor and lieutenant governor for the November...
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