politics of the united states

LITTLE VALLEY — A leader at the Cattaraugus County Board of Elections for 20 years, Kevin Burleson has been reappointed Democratic election commission...

I was born in 1951 and lived the first 18 years of my life in a small housing development near Albany. I attended the local Catholic school from kinde...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Political centrism has a bad name. In fact, it has a lot of bad names. Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, g...

This is a very crucial election, with two candidates as opposites. Kamala Harris has demonstrated a long-standing career of integrity, honesty and com...

LAS VEGAS (TNS) — PresidentJoe Bidenmay have endorsedKamala Harris, but it’s increasingly obvious he wants her to lose. On Monday, Vice President Harr...

CUBA — The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties invites all to a screening of “On the Basis of Sex,” rated PG-13, at 5:30 p.m. ...

LEWIS RUN, Pa. — In his long and distinguished career on the bench, retired McKean County Judge John M. Cleland, in his words, “absolutely avoided pol...

A law moving many town and county elections in New York to even-numbered years to align them with state and federal races was struck down by a state j...

The Biden-Harris administration is set to eclipse the $1 trillion mark in improper payments, a new record for wasted money in a four-year term, accord...

BERKELEY, Calif. (TNS) — What role, if any, will the Supreme Court play in the November presidential election? That is the crucial, unknowable questio...

I am a lifelong registered Democrat. I don’t recall choosing that party: my parents most likely “gave” it to me. Actually, because I was born white, C...

BALTIMORE (TNS) — The theme of this election, the Democrats tell us, is to be freedom, as the theme of the 2022 election was said to be democracy. Dem...

OLEAN — Right Thinkers is planning a local rally for former President Donald Trump on Oct. 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lincoln Park. Several speakers will...

Following what she called disturbing allegations of veteran mistreatment by the Buffalo VA, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand held a press conference Frida...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — During every election cycle, cross-party endorsements snag a few headlines. There is something oddly satisfying about the on...

OLEAN — One million dollars in aid for the city’s water treatment plant passed one chamber of Congress this summer, while $2 million more is already o...

NEW YORK — It wasn’t a shock to many Black New Yorkers that Mayor Eric Adams has surrounded himself with African American civil rights leaders, clergy...

Next month, the votes of New Yorkers may possibly decide which party controls the House of Representatives for the 119th U.S. Congress. The margin bet...