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(Editors: This is the first in a series on addressing injustices in the U.S. prison system.) ****** Ever since Eric Holder became our chief law enforc...

Negative early headlines about Afghanistan’s April 5 presidential election are easy to imagine. Some candidates are already trying to foster a simplif...

When the federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee met last month in Washington, most Americans were unaware of the proceedings. But all Americans...

Russian troops are massing menacingly on Ukraine’s eastern border. The civil war in Syria is still raging, and 33,000 American troops fight on in Afgh...

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, March 28: So the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board says North...

Two questions: Why doesn’t our nation have more passenger trains? And does the younger generation’s declining interest in driving imply an opening for...

President Barack Obama recently directed Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to examine U.S. immigration enforcement policies to see how the de...

AL BANY — Sen. Catharine M. Young co-sponsored a Senate resolution celebrating the life, and mourned the death, of Buffalo Bills owner and Western New...

Let’s put it this way: If the Koch Brothers were Russians, we’d call them oligarchs: grasping barbarians exercising crude political power. But this is...

A few years ago, I found myself sitting on an airplane next to a gentleman from Egypt. Talk quickly turned to the upheaval in his country, where the s...

Almost every day, I hear parents and grandparents and people on television complain about how cellphones, smartphones, texting, streaming, Facebooking...

Immigration policy was the first weapon used to punish Vladimir Putin and his cronies following their Crimean consumption. Travel sanctions were impos...

Sometimes our view of the world is completely shaken by new theories. That has happened to me with the Vikings. You will remember the Vikings: fierce ...

Ralph Wilson, founder and only owner the Buffalo Bills football team has ever known, is dead. I’d had nearly 24 hours to process this news, yet, as a ...

I always eagerly await, from one year to the next, the annual student musical at Olean High School. This year’s presentation was “Beauty and the Beast...

Justin Bieber has been lowering the behavior bar lately (against stiff competition) in the struggle for top slot in the Annoying Celebrity Act-Out sta...

In 1975, Frank Church, a Democratic senator from Idaho, told the American people that a government intelligence agency most of them had never heard of...

There are not enough wood chips for a biorefinery in Cattaraugus County and northern Pennsylvania, and I find it another example of a mistaken idea by...