Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 15, 2022
Under the shadow of growing tensions with Beijing, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would help the United States remain econ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Feb 11, 2022
Redistricting is one of those topics that causes eyes to glaze over. Insiders throw around words like compactness, communities of interest, packing, c...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 02, 2022
Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. ...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
Feb 01, 2022
New congressional district lines proposed by state legislature Democrats retain much of the existing 23rd District of Southern Tier towns along the Pe...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 29, 2022
Conservatives celebrated the defeat of the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills on Capitol Hill. They should have, since these bills were a brazen attempt...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 27, 2022
The failures of President Joe Biden’s first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big citi...
News
Jan 24, 2022
NEW YORK — Democrats on New York’s redistricting commission threw up their hands Monday, a day before a bipartisan panel — apparently in name only — w...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 22, 2022
Spoken word performer Gil Scott-Heron famously said: “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.” This truism came to mind recently as ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 18, 2022
After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
New York Democrats are so intent on locking in one-party rule, they’re blatantly defying what the voters just told them. The latest example: On Monday...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 13, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...
News
Jan 11, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Lawmakers started the new year with a thumbs down for redistricting maps and made election-related bills their top priority Monday as t...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 08, 2022
The Constitution must be defended — except when it must be jettisoned for convenience. We’ve heard much upon the anniversary of January 6 about how Do...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 06, 2022
For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are told, is ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 23, 2021
Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been wat...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 22, 2021
Joe Manchin and London Breed have nothing in common. One is an old-school Democratic senator from West Virginia, surviving and thriving in an increasi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 14, 2021
The difference between genius and stupidity, someone once said, is that genius has its limits. That’s the message for the Democratic party, which incr...
News, NY State News
Dec 13, 2021
ALBANY — All five Democrats who had announced campaigns to succeed Letitia James as New York’s attorney general have now withdrawn from the race after...
Local News, News
June 17, 2025
WELLSVILLE — Nearly 300 people weren't deterred by huge trucks and damp weather for Wellsville's No Kings demonstration on Saturday. The advertised ev...
Commentary, Opinion
June 17, 2025
Earlier this year, I read someone’s post online that said whenever she felt tempted to complain about everything that’s wrong with the world, instead,...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, Press Releases
June 17, 2025
SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Public Library will kick off its Summer Reading Program, “Color Our World,” with a mini carnival Saturday, June 28 from 11 a...
Local News, News
June 17, 2025
From careless drivers and fake sirens to charity scams, from an emergency landing on Route 219 to concerns over online cigarette sales from the reserv...
Local News, News
June 17, 2025
OLEAN — Of all the community members out enjoying the summer weather this weekend, hundreds did so on the grounds of the Basilica of St. Mary of the A...
Local News, News
June 17, 2025
The Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau announces this week’s featured Youth Citizenship Award recipient is Courtney Marsh, the daughter of Jason and Nico...
