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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
Local News, News
Jul 14, 2023
FARMERSVILLE — The Farmersville Town Board has voted to table a resolution asking the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Envir...
News, NY State News
Jul 13, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul expressed concern the state’s burgeoning “Red Flag Law” could be upended by the U.S. Supreme Court, an issue she fram...
Commentary, New York
Jul 13, 2023
Gov. Kathy Hochul is absolutely right that it was her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, who signed into law the disastrous “reforms,” like cashless bail, tha...
Commentary, New York
Jul 11, 2023
Even though all the briefs have been submitted and the oral arguments were held on June 8 before an Albany appellate panel in a crazy redistricting ca...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 09, 2023
The federal government has the power to forgive federal student loan debt. What was at issue in the two cases the United States Supreme Court recently...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 09, 2023
The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipl...
News, NY State News
Jul 07, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Republicans are pointing to Merriam Webster’s dictionary and a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upending the president’s student loan...
Commentary, Nation World
Jul 06, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court is on hiatus until the first Monday of October. The docket this fall will offer the justices plenty of chances to again reinvig...
News, NY State News
Jul 06, 2023
AMSTERDAM (TNS) — A wastewater treatment worker who was fired by the city of Amsterdam three years ago after testing positive for marijuana was awarde...
News, NY State News
Jul 05, 2023
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is supporting the bipartisan National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2023. This legislation woul...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 05, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has...
Commentary, New York
Jul 05, 2023
One of the problems with the Legislature only being in Albany for half the year is that they leave a lot of common-sense public safety measures on the...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 05, 2023
The last year has shown the power of a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Conservatives had a 5-4 majority for years and were not able to...
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Jul 04, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For decades, U.S. employers and university admissions officers have wandered in a legal minefield, never fully certain whether rac...
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Jul 03, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — The campaign against affirmative action has reduced the complicated process of college admissions to a simple and highly inaccurate sou...
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Jun 30, 2023
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case achieved instant legendary status in certain quarters. Vice Pre...
Local News, News
Jun 30, 2023
Thursday’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision overturning a decades-old affirmative action decision that required colleges and universities to consider race i...
Nation, News
Jun 29, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institu...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
ELLICOTTVILLE — The Bob McCarthy Foundation continues its annual funding of critical programs in the community, including supporting prevention servic...
Business, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
KNAPP CREEK — Another ideal autumn weekend is in the forecast as Rock City Park will host its 17th annual Gem-Mineral-Fossil Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p....
News, NY State News
October 2, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — Only two states — Oregon and Colorado — allow psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, to be used for medici...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
"There is never, ever a good reason to force a government shutdown. It disrupts vital government services, hurts those dependent on those services, un...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
This past Sunday I climbed Phelps Mountain, one of the 46 high peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. As I was hiking, I thought back to 1968 ...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
Less than a month into school, Olean parents are already facing tough challenges. I’ve seen posts of a student bruised and bloodied, another who switc...
