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(TNS) In the wake of the collapse of the Corinthian Colleges and questions about other for-profit career colleges, the Department of Education has dra...

(TNS) One would have hoped that 15 years out from the cataclysmic events of Sept. 11, 2001, which forever altered our sense of security, caught our el...

(TNS) My parents, brother and I were on vacation in Florida, and we were talking about Donald Trump. The idea of leaving America if a scary Republican...

A recent letter to the editor from George Carlson about Walkable Olean made me wonder: Is North Union Street more pedestrian friendly? Does traffic fl...

One week from today the annual Genesis House Fall Gala will take place upstairs at the Old Library Restaurant on South Union Street. This annual gala ...

I have been attending Cattaraugus County legislative and committee meetings because my husband is in one of the county nursing homes and I found it ne...

The work on North Union Street has progressed far enough that the finished product is visible. Starting at the Main Street-North Union roundabout sout...

No one alive today has ever seen anything like this presidential season. When have we ever seen the ordinary voters really choose their candidates in ...

(TNS) The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is also well-known for the trouble it keeps getting into. The most recent chapter could be t...

U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow's recent decision to refer Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for prosecution on criminal contempt charges broug...

No one alive today has ever seen anything like this presidential season. When have we ever seen the ordinary voters really choose their candidates in ...

I ran into a St. Bonaventure professor while I was grocery shopping last week. We had a couple of quick laughs right away because I took four graduate...

I am not the first and won't be the last to remark on how utterly bizarre aspects of this campaign season are. Let's start with the fact that there we...

(TNS) Earlier this month, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stated that women infected with the Zika virus, which can cause congenital disabilities such as mic...

(TNS) I caught a glimpse of Vladimir Putin’s Russia in a Moscow police station 25 years ago. The USSR was disintegrating around me. I was a University...

(TNS) You have houseguests and you may not even know it. Indeed, they can be found in virtually every room of your home. We’re referring to federal re...

I believe that, before college, I was taught some of the wrong things. I wasn’t taught that 8- and 9-year-old girls are having vaginal organs removed ...

Section 109-a, Article 7 of the New York State Agriculture and Markets Law requires every person owning a dog to have it licensed. I don’t care what y...