Sep 15, 2022
Show me a bully, I’ll show you a crybaby. Few events have demonstrated the accuracy of that observation like the caterwauling on the right in response...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 15, 2022
Show me a bully, I’ll show you a crybaby. Few events have demonstrated the accuracy of that observation like the caterwauling on the right in response...
Sep 09, 2022
Who’s using the culture war to distract from the economy now? Democrats have long believed — going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book,...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 06, 2022
Two months ago, as Americans began their summer vacations, the political landscape looked bleak for Joe Biden and his Democrats. Inflation was soaring...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 02, 2022
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are proving that even sworn enemies can cooperate to promote one another’s political interests. President Biden, with his c...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 01, 2022
Once given up for dead, Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their chances in November’s midterm elections. The race for the House is narrowing...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Aug 31, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Two years ago, I wrote a column proclaiming the evils of the college-loan racket. The federal government should cancel student debt, I ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 25, 2022
Temporarily anyway, Donald J. Trump resembles the Br’er Rabbit of the Joel Chandler Harris tales: flung into the briar patch by the FBI search of his ...
News, NY State News
Aug 24, 2022
NEW YORK — In a cluster of contentious Democratic primaries Tuesday, two New York incumbents were ousted from the U.S. House after redistricting shuff...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 24, 2022
There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November’s midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe w...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 22, 2022
Yes, there is a border crisis. And, yes, a big part of Democrats’ struggle in Texas is their unwillingness or inability to accept that reality and to ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 19, 2022
Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... To readers of a certain age who grew up watching cowboy movies on TV, that timeless phrase signals a major plot devel...
News, NY State News
Aug 18, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — State Senate Republicans’ campaign arm has struck a $200,000 settlement to close an inquiry into the party’s alleged abuse of its campa...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 10, 2022
You’ve probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act — the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats — includes provisions to...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 07, 2022
By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny state of West Virg...
Nation World, New York, Opinion
Aug 03, 2022
An odd atmosphere has descended on Washington, D.C. At the precise moment the government announced that the economy shrank for the second consecutive ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 02, 2022
My friends have it wrong. I recently reached out to many of them about an effort to combat the intentional efforts by “big lie” candidates to take ove...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 01, 2022
Even as Democrats reel from draconian impact of Republicans’ success at stacking the U.S. Supreme Court, the Biden administration is in danger of leav...
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. ...
