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(TNS) The fact that we’ve reached a point where citizens can feasibly debate whether the leading candidate for the presidential nomination of one of o...

Here are five reasons to vote for Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s presidential primary. 1. He is the candidate least likely to send Americans into more wa...

Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who seems to have a grasp of one of the most important issues that face Americans today. He has corr...

We have all seen the headlines. It seems each day we read yet another story about a tragic death due to heroin or opioid drugs. Hospital emergency dep...

April 10-16 is National Library Appreciation Week and I feel Olean has one of the best libraries around. There is wonderful programming going on all t...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders turns some people off because he calls himself a “democratic socialist.” The reason he uses such language should be clear....

(TNS) Before taking office, the next president — whoever that may be — would benefit from reading a new book titled “Mission Failure: America and the ...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order Tuesday banning all non‑essential state travel to Mississippi after that state’s enactment of a law tha...

The town of Hinsdale is planning a Town Cleanup Day for April 30, with a rain date of May 7. It’s time to take some pride in our town and do some clea...

The Southern Tier’s most favored politician, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, has jumped on the Donald Trump bandwagon. That might be the biggest mistake he ever m...

(TNS) The good news was that some pro-life and pro-choice groups had found common ground. The bad news was that it took Donald Trump threatening to pr...

(TNS) When California legislators voted to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022, labor activists cheered. Discounting fears that a...

(TNS) Sen. Bernie Sanders is waging an improbable presidential campaign, but he won’t disappear after this election. Nor will his followers: Perhaps t...

At Wednesday’s meeting of the Cattaraugus County Legislature’s Development and Agriculture Committee, Legislator Joseph Snyder of Ischua reminded fell...

In the final months of 2015 three events occurred on the national educational landscape. In September the College Board announced that the high school...

James Madison declared way back in 1792 that in America, “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort … (and) … to secure to every man ...

April is National Donate Life Month throughout the United States. It includes organs and tissues. The act of donating an organ, as a living or non-liv...

The New York State Senate passed two bills Monday that help veterans with disabilities afford their homes and also guide the state in developing servi...