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The top headline on Friday’s page A-1 of the Olean Times Herald read, “Is This the Final Taste of Olean?” The question arose from the fact that vendor...

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 ...

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common def...

Who writes letters anymore? Do you see my hand up? A lost art, I know, but one I still practice, even in an age of social media. I’ve written letters ...

On July 15, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand released a letter drafted to the U.S. secretary of agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, strongly advocating that the ...

Amidst the violence, anger and hatred in our world there is some peace. There is a small, beautiful town nestled at the bottom of the Allegheny hills,...

(TNS) Conventional wisdom has it that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will offer a needed balance to Donald Trump — be the yang to Trump’s yin, the good cop t...

I read Madison Carlson’s recent commentary about Hong Kong and Singapore. From 1968-73 I visited Hong Kong three times and spent four months at univer...

In a recent column, Donna Brazile, a Democrat strategist and familiar of Bill and Hillary Clinton, leaped to declare “Hillary Passes the Test.” Many s...

(TNS) CLEVELAND — Like partners in a shotgun marriage, Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s establishment have been preaching unity this week in ho...

I read Madison Carlson’s recent commentary about Hong Kong and Singapore. From 1968-73 I visited Hong Kong three times and spent four months at univer...

American political conventions once had real drama as parties held rounds and rounds of voting before settling on a presidential nominee. Now, they ar...

(TNS) “Pokemon Go” appeared on U.S. shores just this month, and people with Android phones already use the app more, on average, than has-been diversi...

(TNS) I live in two worlds. In one of them, the education world, there are angry and divisive battles over our public schools. But in the other one, k...

Over the four-hour flight, the glass airplane window proved to be only a physical barrier between me and Hong Kong. We floated away from the Asian ver...

Fellow black belt candidate Scott O’Brien and I organized a community service project for AKT Martial Arts Academy that included the painting of 130 o...

(TNS) Amid the over-heated, hyper-partisan reactions to the FBI decision to close the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers ...

There's no getting around the fact that the Supreme Court struck a blow to the pro-life movement in its June decision on a Texas abortion law. There w...