Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 11, 2023
When the same old thing seems no longer to be working, it could well be time to try something new. This kind of thinking has long been employed in man...
News, NY State News
Dec 15, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — The Board of Regents wants all 4-year-olds to have free preschool by 2030 and then expand that to all 3-year-olds by 2035. In a budget ...
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
Jun 03, 2022
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has finally admitted how badly she underestimated the inflationary threat last year. Although President Joe Biden hims...
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Mar 04, 2022
There are many words that fit this moment, but I will choose the simple and the obvious: “finally.” Finally, the statewide mask mandate on students in...
News, NY State News
Jan 28, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino appeared on Fox News this week after obtaining video displaying immigrant teenagers exi...
Cattaraugus County, News
Nov 15, 2021
From fighting the menace of TB to a lull in deer hunters, from a crushing defeat in the Olean-Bradford rivalry to local teams netting state titles, he...
Letters To Editor
Oct 23, 2021
With the threat of another government shutdown averted by the raise of the debt ceiling level, all is well — or is it? This was the 79th time since 19...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 14, 2021
When the Biden administration proposed allowing the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug prices earlier this year, the nonpartisan Congressio...
News
Jul 13, 2021
ALBANY — The federal government’s count of the COVID-19 death toll in New York has 11,000 more victims than the tally publicized by the administration...
Leters to the Editor
Mar 18, 2021
Voter fraud in this country should not simply be dismissed as a crackpot concern. I have to have ID to do almost anything, why should voting be any di...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Mar 10, 2021
It’d be fitting if Democrats undertook a radical procedural step to pass a radical piece of legislation. That’s what the left is pressuring Senate Dem...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Mar 08, 2021
The decisions (or the lack thereof) that made Texas’ power grid vulnerable to the calamitous winter storm that left millions without heat and water ar...
Local News, News, NY State News
Feb 23, 2021
New York school districts will have to give assessment tests to students this year, but they will be allowed to delay or change the tests, the federal...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 08, 2021
Back in December, during a virtual meeting with progressive organizations, then-President-elect Joe Biden insisted that he would abide by constitution...
News, NY State News
Jan 27, 2021
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to pay New York $934 million to cover the projected statewide costs of administe...
Local Columnists, New York
Jan 27, 2021
By Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s estimate, New York faces a $15 billion budget shortfall. So why is the state so hesitant to look for revenue where it obviously...
News, Western New York
Jan 25, 2021
NEW YORK — Winter has brought New York’s worst stretch of the coronavirus crisis since May, with at least 4,800 dead from COVID-19 in the past 30 days...
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...
