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Sherburne claims victory over Aiello for Olean mayor

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Sherburne claims victory over Aiello for Olean mayor

By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com

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...

Progressives are asking for too much. Just tell them no, Joe

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Progressives are asking for too much. Just tell them no, Joe

LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service

Oct 21, 2021

Could it be that pundits and political scientists are framing the fight about the infrastructure and reconciliation bills all wrong? I think there is ...

Powell strong enough to admit he’d made mistakes

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Powell strong enough to admit he’d made mistakes

Oct 20, 2021

For its San Diego convention in the summer of 1996, the Republican Party was anxious to avoid the acrimonious tone of its gathering in Houston four ye...

The new missile gap in the world

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

The new missile gap in the world

RICH LOWRY

Oct 20, 2021

The Biden administration is hesitant to call our competition with China a new Cold War, even though Beijing has zero qualms about making the parallels...

Prevent an eviction crisis in New York

Local Columnists, New York, Opinion

Prevent an eviction crisis in New York

Oct 20, 2021

What will happen when New York’s moratorium on evictions ends in January? Housing advocates fear a wave of evictions that could push residents from th...

Unintended impacts of unregulated cannabis distribution

Local Columnists, Opinion

Unintended impacts of unregulated cannabis distribution

MICHAEL PRUTSMAN Special to Olean Times Herald

Oct 19, 2021

On March 30, the New York Legislature passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act. The passage of this bill provides for the initiation of the le...

Vaccine objectors mocked, livelihoods taken away

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Vaccine objectors mocked, livelihoods taken away

CYNTHIA M. ALLEN

Oct 19, 2021

In an age in which religiosity is waning, the notion that a person would forgo a medical treatment, perhaps even a life-saving one, because of sincere...

World leaders have a chance on climate change

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

World leaders have a chance on climate change

DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service

Oct 19, 2021

This has been a year marked by terrifying news about climate change: extreme weather, massive wildfires, persistent drought in some areas and catastro...

Shine light on federal judges’ financial conflicts

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Shine light on federal judges’ financial conflicts

Oct 19, 2021

Last wee k and thi s, The Wall Street Journal identified 131 federal judges who, between 2010 and 2018, heard cases involving entities in which they, ...

Knee-jerk opposition to mandate

Letters To Editor, Opinion

Knee-jerk opposition to mandate

Oct 16, 2021

“Honor thy father and thy mother” — Exodus. The funny thing about the Fifth Commandment is that whatever you think about the authority of Exodus, basi...

Tolerance for all views

Letters To Editor, Opinion

Tolerance for all views

Oct 16, 2021

Joel Whitcher, between the walls of his church, expressed his personal views on morality. For this he has publicly and repeatedly been castigated. Why...

What’s really ‘killing this country’

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

What’s really ‘killing this country’

STEVEN ROBERTS

Oct 16, 2021

Iowa is represented in the U.S. House by three Republicans and one Democrat. After last year’s census, an independent advisory commission drew a new m...

The US supply chain makes no sense

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

The US supply chain makes no sense

RICH LOWRY

Oct 16, 2021

If there is one universally recognized principle in American political life, it’s that the president of the United States should want Christmas to com...

Liz Cheney’s impossible choice

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Liz Cheney’s impossible choice

LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service

Oct 15, 2021

Questions like which came first, the chicken or the egg, are irrelevant because they’re unanswerable (although for the record, scientists come down on...

The Schumer-McConnell split is bad for everyone

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

The Schumer-McConnell split is bad for everyone

CARL P. LEUBSDORF Tribune News Service

Oct 15, 2021

Americans continue to have a dim view of Congress. And for good reason. Legislative gridlock due to closely divided houses is one factor. But the top ...

Let’s talk about domestic violence

Local Columnists, New York, Opinion

Let’s talk about domestic violence

Oct 15, 2021

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity to not just put up fliers and circulate hotline numbers, but to talk about things th...

The war on gifted and talented programs

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

The war on gifted and talented programs

RICH LOWRY

Oct 13, 2021

Gifted students have to check their privilege and get over themselves. It doesn’t matter whether they are minorities. It doesn’t matter whether they w...

Congress has a chance to take bipartisan action on Facebook

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

Congress has a chance to take bipartisan action on Facebook

DOYLE McMANUS

Oct 12, 2021

Facebook’s critics have long argued that the social media giant is bad for consumers, bad for children and bad for the country — a serial abuser of it...

Letter to the Editor: Time to push through NY Health Act

Local Columnists, New York, Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Time to push through NY Health Act

Oct 11, 2021

New Yorkers could have affordable and quality health insurance but politicians are standing in the way. Despite gaining majority support in both the N...

We should arm Taiwan to the teeth

Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion

We should arm Taiwan to the teeth

RICH LOWRY

Oct 06, 2021

We warned China to stop its incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone — and the Chinese responded by flying even more aircraft into the...

The ‘daily miracle’ of newspapers

Local Columnists, Opinion

The ‘daily miracle’ of newspapers

Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com

Oct 06, 2021

Newspaper people sometimes call it the “daily miracle.” Thoughts and ideas, happenings in the community, comments and plans from civic leaders, effort...