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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...

George Santayana famously said, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” But when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, Western leaders can’t...

On the surface, the battle between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA looks to be a classic he said/she said story. Did the CIA improperly ...

Next month, my son will celebrate his 5th birthday. Then, in just five months, he’ll be starting a new chapter in his life, kindergarten. It’s bitters...

Here’s what the United States has done so far in an attempt to deter further Russian incursions into Ukraine: applied two rounds of economic sanctions...

Standing up for the people in our rural communities and working together to give everyone the opportunity to succeed through quality education always ...

I’ve been called a lot of things: “strong-willed” and “independent” on the polite end of the spectrum; “abrasive,” “aggressive” — and words I can’t pr...

Democrats are reeling. They’re playing defense, not offense. Their loss in a Florida election for a vacant House seat — in a district President Obama ...

Being stranded on the side of an unfamiliar country road in the middle of the night — with no gas and a dead cell phone — can be unnerving. Luckily fo...

Did anyone believe for a moment that an Army brigadier general was going to go to prison and lose his considerable pension for abusing a subordinate w...

Anyone who has seen the many movies made about World War II knows that soldiers who had forgotten the day’s password, or who happened upon Allied troo...

In 1919, after allied sanctions on food shipments had starved the Kaiser’s Germany into submission, President Woodrow Wilson endorsed the continued us...

The decade was the 1960s and at a home in a Twin Tiers’ community lived an older woman and her son, who had Down syndrome. A sad, yet common aspect of...

Last week, before Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea to Russia, I asked a leading Putinologist, Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institu...

A celebrity death hoax with ties to the Twin Tiers went too far. Similar fake reports have been a part of stardom since celebrities have existed. Just...

I am very disappointed in what state Sen. Catharine Young recently supported with her vote. She has, for most of her political career, loved to pit do...

Small banks didn’t cause the financial crisis that led to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — and the act’s framers said t...