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Commenting recently about seeing the play “War Horse,” one of my 11th-grade students expressed surprise that “even some of the Nazis had humane feelin...

(Editors Note: This is the last in a series on expanded, joyful learning for students.) A key demonstrator of part of the potential future of American...

For the United States, the Iraq war ranks as the most consequential foreign policy failure since Vietnam. In neither instance did U.S. forces succumb ...

Please indulge my colloquial use of the term “crazy” for the purposes of this column. I mean no disrespect to people who suffer from mental disorders....

My son Sam surprised me somewhat a few weeks ago when he said, “Dad, let’s go on a hike tomorrow.” Between the two of us, we had been pretty busy. Fre...

If you’re like me — a planner — your summer calendar tends to fill up way before the spring flowers start blooming Personally, summer is the most over...

By all appearances the man inspecting the gas meter outside my apartment last week looked as if he was from a utility provider. Wearing an orange, ref...

Some thoughts and notes after a busy start to the month of June… One thing I admire about so many folks in Olean is that they appreciate and honor the...

EDITOR'S NOTE: 2014 is a year of auditioning, positioning, networking and just plain hard work for people who might run for president in 2016. There's...

Whatever led Elliot Rodger to kill six people, Asperger’s syndrome was not the cause. Like Adam Lanza, the man responsible for the Newtown school mass...

The commentary evoked by the recent prisoner swap — five terrorists in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — calls for context. The trade was an unsavory ...

In the wake of the prisoner swap that resulted in Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release by the Taliban, questions are rightly being asked about the deal’s lega...

June 6, 1944, is one of the two dates that stand out above all others in Americans’ frame of reference about World War II. Dec. 7, 1941 — the Japanese...

When you practice immigration law, your idea of what it means to be “American” is both fluid and sacred. The fluidity comes in seeing new applicants f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party continues its disciplined march toward an impressive lineup of candidates this fall, when it hopes to wrest the...

I am compelled to write about the proposed change in parking around Olean High School. As a former employee (teacher) at the high school, I am opposed...

Judges can order states to spend more on education. But does it improve schools? In 1977, writing in the Harvard Law Review, Supreme Court Justice Wil...

( Editor's note: The writer is addressing the question, “Should the government reimburse insurers who lose money in the Affordable Care Act?”) WASHING...