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EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Should President Barack Obama yield to growing bipartisan support and approve the Keystone pipe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As defense secretary, Ashton Carter would face a daunting pile of problems at home and abroad. And then there are the unforeseen cri...

L et’s face it, village elections are often a snoozer. The same individuals typically seek office term after term, and maybe six dozen people in the v...

Let’s face it, village elections are often a snoozer. The same individuals typically seek office term after term, and maybe six dozen people in the vi...

Peter Marcus’s column was spot on: If the finished portion of North Union Street, put in this past fall, is a sample of the finished street, I believe...

I thank John Cappelletti for his column in the Jan. 11 edition of the Olean Times Herald about massive public subsidies to corporations, which are con...

(TNS) Conservatives in Washington are increasingly confident that the Supreme Court will rule this summer that the White House has gone beyond its leg...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Has President Barack Obama’s ‘lead from behind’ strategy helped or harmed America’s global lead...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Has President Barack Obama’s ‘lead from behind’ strategy helped or harmed America’s global lead...

NEW YORK (AP) — For centuries, grand juries have held some of the criminal justice system's best-kept secrets. But their private process has come unde...

ALBANY (AP) — The Associated Press has gathered recent selected editorials from newspapers in New York state: The Post-Star of Glens Falls on the corr...

More than once, the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told me: "This nation will not be civilized until it ends the death penalty." But how c...

(TNS) For many decades, the Supreme Court’s 1905 decision in Lochner v. New York has ranked among the most universally despised rulings in the history...

(TNS) By agreeing to hear four same-sex marriage cases this term, the U.S. Supreme Court probably will settle the issue once and for all by the end of...

More say they plan to hire in 2015 L OUDONVILLE — Across upstate New York, CEO confidence has increased this year demonstrating more optimism than pes...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This should be a golden era for tea party conservatives, whose energies helped Republicans gain a historic House majority and take c...

Manhattan Democrat far too compromised to serve as Assembly speaker E nough is enough. Sheldon Silver, the heretofore all-powerful speaker of the New ...

I ’ve been on this earth long enough to realize how things have changed, for better or worse. I could bore you for hours on any topic. For many reason...