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WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to preserve their Senate majority, Democrats are attacking Republicans over Medicare and Social Security in Louisiana, sp...

With city of Olean elections coming up, it is important to take a look at the composition of the next Common Council and the effects it may have on ci...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Has the Obama administration botched its response to the ongoing Ebola crisis?” BLOOMINGTON, In...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Has the Obama administration botched its response to the ongoing Ebola crisis?” ARLINGTON, Va. ...

Two years ago, President Obama was striding the beaches of New Jersey and spearheading the federal response to the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy. ...

Deng Xiaoping is back … but only on television. This year — the 110th anniversary of his birth — Beijing is sparing no expense to commemorate the form...

In a letter to the editor in Wednesday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald, Barry Gan argued that trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Ag...

I have noticed several "photo ops" of Rep. Tom Reed serving coffee, posing as a restaurant server, etc. These activities were billed as "Tom on the jo...

Parenthood should be affordable in this country, but the cost of raising a child from birth to adulthood is now a quarter of a million dollars and pro...

Stop blaming nurses for the potential spread of Ebola. In the nationwide hysteria over the Ebola virus, many people are pointing fingers at two of the...

In a recent letter to the editor, a local resident used support of free-trade policy to persuade readers not to vote for the incumbent representative ...

Rep. Tom Reed has always worked hard to support the farmers he represents; he has held nearly 150 town hall meetings and dozens of roundtables to addr...

Now that a new school year is well underway there is once again chatter about the utility of the Common Core. I worry that with all the noise we will ...

I am sick of the barrage of distortions and misleading statements that afflict us, especially during election time. Naturally, then, as a grateful rec...

Last year Rep. Tom Reed kept insisting that he was eager to pass a farm bill to help the farmers in our area. Yet he and his Republican colleagues ref...

Midterm elections are coming, and both parties are lobbing grenades over health care. Despite the furious rhetoric, the two sides are more alike than ...

Consider these two current national trends: the exploding cost of going to college and the widening American wealth and income gap. Now consider the p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They have health insurance, but still no peace of mind. Overall, 1 in 4 privately insured adults say they doubt they could pay for a...