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November 4, 2025
OLEAN — The 28th mayor of the city has been selected. Surrounded by officials from both the Republican and Democratic parties, first-time candidate Am...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 06, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Warning! Residents of a certain region near and dear to our hearts might find that an upcoming quote triggers anger or emotional distre...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 06, 2022
There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 05, 2022
The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in...
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Apr 04, 2022
Thirty-two years ago on April 5, Concerned Citizens of Allegany County (CCAC) and the Allegany County Nonviolent Action Group (ACNAG) turned back a fi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 04, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to av...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 04, 2022
WASHINGTON — Last week, President Joe Biden sent Congress his proposed defense budget for the next fiscal year: an $813 billion wish list, almost $60 ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 01, 2022
Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax” is really a wealth tax — and it’s a bad idea for tax policy in general. On Monday, Biden rolled out a propose...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 01, 2022
In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 01, 2022
Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynchin...
Local Columnists, Opinion, Readers Turn To Write
Mar 29, 2022
I was astonished to read in Kellen M. Quigley’s “Seneca Mothers Stand in Solidarity with Ukraine” (Olean Times Herald, March 9, 2022) that “prior to t...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 28, 2022
NEW YORK (TNS) — When is Andrew Cuomo going to get the message? Nobody wants him around anymore. The world has moved on. But the former governor is no...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 28, 2022
The war in Ukraine, which just entered its second month, shows no sign of ending soon. Russia’s huge but incompetent army has been stymied in its atte...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Mar 28, 2022
I am such a willing participant to the power of suggestion. I hope that doesn’t make me gullible to manipulation or overly impressionable, but it does...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 27, 2022
If Winston Churchill were here — and some of us saw him, or his latest incarnation, this month, addressing the U.S. Congress on the plight of his bele...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 21, 2022
The military options for the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine are complicated. But the economic options aren’t: All global companies should pull out of Russia...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 21, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — “One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost,” wrote the great libertarian economist Walter E. Willi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — Russia’s war in Ukraine has taught the world’s autocrats some useful lessons: Invasions may be harder than they look. It’s unwise to go t...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 17, 2022
A capable presidential administration plans, anticipates, and implements strategies. An ineffective administration bounces haphazardly from crisis to ...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
November 4, 2025
Mobilizations to collect food items — as well as cash donations — for food pantries to benefit households cut off from federal nutrition benefits cont...
Local Sports, Sports, Volleyball
November 4, 2025
OLEAN — Wednesday and Thursday are packed with local high schools competing in sectional finals, demonstrating a very successful season for teams in t...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
November 4, 2025
ALLEGANY — Finding others who understand your grief can make all the difference. HomeCare & Hospice invites community members to take part in its free...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
November 4, 2025
ORCHARD PARK — There was a flip to Keon Coleman for a first down. Jackson Hawes caught one for 18 yards later in the game. On a day he went 23 of 26 a...
Local News, News
November 4, 2025
OLEAN — Christina Torrey, a Bolivar mother of three, received life-changing news last July: she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I kind of told a co...
Local News, News
November 4, 2025
Olean Police Monday, 10:30 a.m. , no injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident on North Union Street near Laurens Street. A vehicle oper...
