Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 07, 2022
Whose pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigati...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 06, 2022
The election is only days away, the country is in a funk, talk about the decline of democracy is in the air. If nothing else, the toxic mixture of thi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 26, 2022
The Biden administration has opened our southern border to an unlimited number of illegal immigrants from all parts of the globe — and has no intentio...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 18, 2022
One year after the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, a government watchdog is still doing its vital work of accounting for the more than $146 billion i...
Cattaraugus County, News
Jul 06, 2022
Cattaraugus County sites are featured extensively in a 2022 book on hiking and exploring, “Secret Places of Western New York: 25 Scenic Hikes.” The bo...
Apr 03, 2022
President Joe Biden learned the hard way Saturday about the dangers of going off script at the end of a speech heavily criticizing Russian leader Vlad...
Opinion
Mar 14, 2022
Banning Tchaikovsky is not the way to win a war. Last week, the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra removed the composer’s popular “1812 Overture” from its...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 03, 2022
Russia is now under an elevated state of nuclear readiness in response to unexpectedly strong Ukrainian resistance and an overwhelming global outcry a...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 05, 2022
Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 11, 2021
No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 09, 2021
Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. A cadre of apocalyptic writers on the right...
Buffalo Bills, News, NY State News, ...
Sep 23, 2021
NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul was joined by NFL greats from New York’s three pro football teams on Thursday to urge fans to get vaccinated agains...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 08, 2021
President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity in the next few months to regain his footing as a foreign policy president after the fall of Kabul — a chan...
News, NY State News
Sep 03, 2021
SYRACUSE (TNS) — Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said Friday he and other officials in Congress and the State Department are continuing to work...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 24, 2021
Plans are being developed to require vaccination against COVID-19 for all would-be foreign travelers to America. It’s just sensible. First reported ea...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 30, 2021
Let’s say there’s an outbreak of deadly parvovirus in your neighborhood. Your beloved golden retriever Red, however, goes into a full-scale panic atta...
Jul 30, 2021
Let’s say there’s an outbreak of deadly parvovirus in your neighborhood. Your beloved golden retriever Red, however, goes into a full-scale panic atta...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
Ruth M. Baillargeon, mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
June 16, 2025
Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
