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It is exciting to see that there is even a proposal to develop long-unused land in North Olean along Buffalo Street and near the Interstate 86 exit. K...

After many years of teaching in college, I’ve concluded that few demographic groups are more pitiless, hardhearted and coldblooded than a class full o...

Haltingly, with understandable ambivalence, the American labor movement is morphing into something new. Its most prominent organizing campaigns of rec...

Given the work-related adventures I’ve written about in this column, I’ve had some readers tell me they are going to start calling me Michelina Rowe —...

A friend emailed last week with a question: “You said that you were reserving your (Ferguson) opinion until you read the evidence. What do you say now...

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we...

For a while there, it looked like a great week to suggest body cameras on all police officers to prevent disastrous flare-ups like we’ve seen in Fergu...

ASHINGTON (AP) — After declaring President Barack Obama's new policy on deportations "null and void," House Republicans are ready to fund the federal ...

President Obama simply cannot bring himself to act as if maybe the former Ferguson, Mo. police officer, Darren Wilson, has human rights too. Imagine b...

St. Bonaventure University hosted Faith Night on Wednesday at Doyle Hall Chapel before its home basketball game vs. University at Buffalo. For $15, I ...

Should a fisherman face two decades in prison for discarding a few fish at sea? That question is at the core of a statutory interpretation case the Su...

Today’s amazing communication technologies owe much to some of Albert Einstein’s greatest discoveries. For example, the cameras in cellphones and othe...

The Christmas season seems to start earlier every year. Last month, a neighbor put up twinkling silver lights, and the day after Thanksgiving, we saw ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New sexual assault data on Thursday delivered both good news and bad news for a U.S. military struggling to overcome what officials ...

Those of us who worked long and hard to elect Martha Robertson to Congress in the recent election were disappointed with the outcome, to put it mildly...

ALBANY — In the wake of another subway murder allegedly committed last monthby a violent felon recently released from prison, state Sen.Catharine Youn...

As so many know, the SPCA in Cattaraugus County has been through some traumatic times in the last few years. Upheaval, uncertainty, rumors and gossip ...

Thank you, Tom Freitag, for your concern for the squirrels in Lincoln Park. I also wondered where the squirrels might be spending the night to try and...