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Whether you call them member items, community projects or earmarks, it’s all fundamentally the same thing: pork-barrel spending. And it’s coming back ...

Earlier this month, I wrote about the controversies surrounding Dr. Seuss and the notion that the iconic author from western Massachusetts might be th...

Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in the White House Wednesday thanks to two unappreciated assets: He is 78 years old, and he has been a politician for more...

Raise your hand if you are exhausted from the incessant political turmoil that continues to unfold in the United States. While almost everyone is hopi...

If you're wondering when American politics hit its low point in civility, I'd nominate Aug. 6, 2020. That was the day when President Trump had this to...

JOHNSTOWN — Concern that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Thanksgiving executive order is overreach and is “scaring the hell out of people,” Fulton County Sheri...

The Russians haven’t loomed so large as a sinister hand influencing the course of American society since the Red Scares of the 20th century. Then, it ...

Recently, a group of college students challenged me, asking, “Why are you conservatives so into the Constitution and all this ‘originalist’ stuff?” In...

PENN YAN — Democratic congressional candidate Tracy Mitrano accused President Trump of threatening to defund the Social Security System and blasted Re...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — While politicians like Joe Biden have long seen Pennsylvania as little more than a strategic pit stop, only showing up during criti...

I refer to the article and photo in Wedneday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald, which showed our Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul hiking at Zoar Valley wearing...

Stand up, get out, defy this illegal, unconstitutional lockdowns of our country, our states and our lives. From the beginning, I did not believe the C...

As New York writhes in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic — racking up horrifying numbers of the infected and the dead — a scandal has arisen over t...

It’s kind of interesting watching the presidential political campaigners vying for the position of who cares more about “ordinary Americans.” Like mos...

Nations at war. We can go back to ancient times and watch how it happens. An aggressive tribe or nation attacks and pillages another. Sometimes the ta...

What happens in the wine cave stays in the wine cave. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work in the world of American politics. For decades, Democ...

ALLEGANY — Barbara J. Hastings, former Cattaraugus County Public Health director, is seeking re-election to District 6 of the Cattaraugus County Legis...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon abruptly dropped plans Thursday for a big new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversi...