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So much for the gentlemen’s agreement, which allows the party of the departing Cattaraugus County Legislator to choose his successor! I fully understa...

(TNS) Just to be clear, here’s the Donald Trump remark — one of them, anyway — that raised eyebrows last week: After asserting that Hillary Clinton wa...

The Olean Area Summer Garden Walk Committee thanks those who participated in our Summer Garden Walk on July 9, as well as our ticket vendors, corporat...

(TNS) Foreign trade took a beating at both major party conventions, with speakers blaming free-trade agreements for all but wiping out U.S. manufactur...

(TNS) Sen. Ted Cruz is not just a pompous, holier-than-thou politician who thinks most of America is beneath him; he is the very thing that was wrong ...

War Veterans Park seemed like the perfect place for Art in the Park and Taste of Olean on July 24. It was large enough and the shade trees helped. I w...

NEW DELHI (AP) — He has seen the body, and authorities say the fingerprints match. But Towhid Rouf is having trouble believing that this skinny, beard...

(TNS) The first task of any political campaign is to frame the question it wants voters to answer. Donald Trump wants this election to be a referendum...

(TNS) President Barack Obama recently took to the Journal of the American Medical Association to defend his health care law and recommend additional r...

Say this for the Democratic Party: They put on a great show. Maybe there’s something to their unabashed affiliation with 95 or more percent of Hollywo...

In an era when “herd” mentality seems to be the norm for health care, I’d like to take a moment to reflect upon my polar-opposite experience with Eden...

(TNS) There are adults in this presidential race and there are children, and this week’s Democratic National Convention did an excellent job of separa...

I fell in love with small-town newspapers years ago. There is something about that tie so many small-town newspapers have to their local communities t...

Once again some of our Cattaraugus County legislators are considering the sale of our two county-owned nursing homes. Family members, employees and ev...

In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama defeated John McCain. In the 2012 election, Obama defeated Mitt Romney. McCain was a former prisoner o...

CLEVELAND — There's always been a disconnect between what pundits and political insiders hear when Donald Trump speaks and what rank-and-file Republic...

(TNS) By the time the speeches by Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders had calmed some of their angst; by the time Paul Simon had deliv...

Definition of “Brexit remorse”: The realization by English voters who supported the UK’s exit from the European Union that they may face the collapse ...