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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
Nov 05, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — Did Republicans in New York have a good Election Day? Or was it just a bad day for progressives? Those may seem like one in the same, b...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 05, 2021
Democrats have badly overplayed the hand they were dealt when voters in 2020 gave them control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Party m...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 04, 2021
Inflation continues to rise, pummeling consumers and raising serious concerns over the big spending agenda of President Joe Biden. Personal consumptio...
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Oct 30, 2021
As global leaders gather in Glasgow, desperately seeking to save our over-heating planet from this cataclysmic cycle of worst-ever storms and droughts...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Oct 29, 2021
On Tuesday’s episode of the NPR show, “The Daily,” New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman offered a powerful summary of the Democrats’ original visi...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 29, 2021
The World Series has come around again, evoking the usual mixed feelings. For one thing, I don’t have a team this year, although I’ll be pulling for A...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Oct 28, 2021
I’m not sure why I’m thinking about the holidays already, but some things that come with such thoughts are clearly on my mind. I suppose it has to do ...
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Oct 28, 2021
Recently, The Washington Post published a news article, “Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts,” exploring what the paper says is a growing ...
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Oct 28, 2021
Prices for most goods jumped again in September, continuing a trend the Biden administration and many hopeful economists labeled as “transitory” earli...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 27, 2021
George Orwell famously said that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” His adage now applies to anyone associ...
New York, Opinion
Oct 27, 2021
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s numbers show that as of Sept. 30, halfway through New York State’s fiscal year, tax revenues are pouring in so much f...
Local Columnists, Opinion
Oct 27, 2021
I have been reluctant to express my thoughts regarding our community’s access to healthcare because I never want my thoughts to be construed as not su...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 25, 2021
First thing’s first: Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is a political animal. It became one the second that Pelo...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Oct 25, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — We hate each other. We’ve agreed to be disagreeable. We view the opposite side of the political aisle with distrust, if not disgust. Th...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 25, 2021
Federal aviation officials say more airline passengers than ever are showing up at airports with guns. Combined with the general uptick in belligerent...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 25, 2021
Federal aviation officials say more airline passengers than ever are showing up at airports with guns. Combined with the general uptick in belligerent...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 22, 2021
As the nation’s political press obsess over the fate of the administration’s Build Back Better proposal, nothing less than the ultimate success or fai...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 21, 2021
The disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele has kept a low profile in recent years. Understandably so, given that investigations revealed his ...
Commentary, Opinion
November 5, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — The criminal charges lodged against New York Attorney General Letitia James by Donald Trump's Justice Department are weak and unworthy ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
November 5, 2025
RANDOLPH — The Randolph Central School District recently hosted its annual Wall of Fame induction dinner at the Cardinal Hills Golf Course. The Oct. 4...
Local News, News
November 5, 2025
OLEAN — A local nonprofit received city backing to get exempted from a back tax bill. The Common Council unanimously passed a resolution to support Op...
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November 5, 2025
The echoes of laughter and fun from Halloween have barely faded, yet it's time to look ahead at some very worthy efforts by dedicated people who work ...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
November 5, 2025
Two county-wide elections in Cattaraugus County — district attorney and coroner on Tuesday — were no contest. Ashley Smith, who ran unopposed on the R...
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...
