Commentary, Nation World
Aug 09, 2024
With President Joe Biden now truly locked in the basement, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are engaged in a two-step ov...
Commentary, Nation World
Jun 24, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — This week’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump won’t produce much in the way of civil dialogue over the nation’s f...
News, NY State News
Oct 25, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul and U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin are scheduled to face off tonight in what is expected to be their only debate and as some po...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 21, 2022
Much of the nation’s political and commentary class had a near-nervous breakdown when 48 Venezuelans who had crossed illegally into the United States ...
Allegany County News, News
Apr 11, 2022
CUBA — Two events are scheduled in April that will continue the celebration of Cuba Circulating Library’s 150th anniversary. On April 28, from 2 to 4 ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 19, 2022
It’s not 2010 again in GOP politics and never will be, but you could be forgiven for having flashbacks to the beginnings of the tea party. A leaderles...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 23, 2021
Joe Biden turned 79 last week. He’s beginning to look his age. The president walks a little more stiffly now. His diction, once clear, sometimes sound...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 17, 2021
The worst part of the debate over school mask mandates is how uncharitable it has become. For example, at the Fort Worth, Texas, school board meeting ...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 02, 2021
Last week, President Joe Biden set an example that all of us — Democrat and Republican alike — should embrace. It wasn’t so much what he did — orderin...
Local Columnists, Nation World
May 10, 2021
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 25, 2021
There’s some debate over the ability of the human mind to really comprehend numbers, especially as they get bigger. Five is simple. One can easily pic...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 11, 2021
The Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump is unprecedented: It’s the first time a president has been tried twice, and the first time an ex-presid...
Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
Dec 09, 2020
As I am sure many locals may have noticed, there has been a growing debate over Portville Central School staying open in the wake of several cases of ...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Oct 01, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has spent the last year trying to find a way to throw Joe Biden off his game and strip him of his status as front-...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Oct 01, 2020
Cattaraugus County’s Republican and Democratic party chairmen had vastly different views of the first presidential debate between President Donald Tru...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 30, 2020
As if having his music reduced to ringtones wasn’t insult enough, the great Ludwig van Beethoven himself has now become a political football in the ca...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World, ...
Aug 18, 2020
At this point in the pandemic, there seem to be two primary sensibilities about how to approach the virus. The first says the threat of COVID-19 is so...
Commentary, Nation World
Jul 25, 2020
It is reasonable for communities across this country to have principled policy debates over the utility of multifamily and single-family housing. But ...
Crime, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — A West Valley woman faces felony welfare fraud charges following an investigation, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office reported. Nicole L....
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
More rain is on the way for the Olean area in the coming week, though the National Weather Service predicts a lower chance for severe weather than the...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — The regular monthly meeting of the Olean Public Library Board of Trustees will be held Wednesday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the library's Conf...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — To understand the engineering challenges they had set before them, members of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s Baja Racing C...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — In August 2024, Keating Township supervisors Dave McClain, John Anderson and Ryan Herzog adopted a protective ordinance that attempted...
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. ...
