Local Columnists, Nation World
May 06, 2021
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 ...
Local Columnists, New York
Mar 22, 2021
Earlier this month, I wrote about the controversies surrounding Dr. Seuss and the notion that the iconic author from western Massachusetts might be th...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 22, 2021
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...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 14, 2021
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...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Dec 21, 2020
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...
News, NY State News
Nov 16, 2020
JOHNSTOWN — Concern that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Thanksgiving executive order is overreach and is “scaring the hell out of people,” Fulton County Sheri...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Oct 24, 2020
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 ...
Sep 19, 2020
Recently, a group of college students challenged me, asking, “Why are you conservatives so into the Constitution and all this ‘originalist’ stuff?” In...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
Aug 19, 2020
PENN YAN — Democratic congressional candidate Tracy Mitrano accused President Trump of threatening to defund the Social Security System and blasted Re...
Jul 24, 2020
HARRISBURG (TNS) — While politicians like Joe Biden have long seen Pennsylvania as little more than a strategic pit stop, only showing up during criti...
Leters to the Editor
May 08, 2020
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...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
May 06, 2020
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...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Apr 10, 2020
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...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Feb 29, 2020
It’s kind of interesting watching the presidential political campaigners vying for the position of who cares more about “ordinary Americans.” Like mos...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jan 12, 2020
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...
Commentary, Nation World
Dec 27, 2019
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...
News, Olean
Oct 20, 2019
ALLEGANY — Barbara J. Hastings, former Cattaraugus County Public Health director, is seeking re-election to District 6 of the Cattaraugus County Legis...
News
Feb 14, 2019
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...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Cathy Briggs, memorial service OLEAN — A memorial service for Cathy Briggs will be held Thursday (June 19, 2025) at Guenther Funeral Home, 1303 E. Sta...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
William S. Clemens ALLEGANY — William S. “Bill” Clemens, 74, of Allegany, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, surround...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
John R. Cornwall, loving husband, father and brother FREEDOM — John R. Cornwall, 75, of Freedom, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at his home, su...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Dennis L. Holliday, loving husband, father and grandfather LIMESTONE — Dennis L. Holliday, of Nichols Run Road, passed away Tuesday (June 10, 2025). D...
