Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 01, 2022
Democracy is under threat — the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worr...
Nov 01, 2022
The Congressional Progressive Caucus last week issued, then quickly withdrew, a poorly timed letter to President Joe Biden urging stepped-up efforts t...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 07, 2022
Elon Musk is about to pollute the country’s discourse, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him. This is the alarm going up about the eccentric b...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 04, 2022
One of the most significant events in American politics is that Hispanics are, in effect, deciding that they are working-class voters rather than ethn...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 09, 2021
One theme of Democratic control of Washington has been frustration, especially among the party’s progressive wing and its cheerleaders in the media, t...
Nov 10, 2021
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker would not have fallen into the trap that befell Terry McAuliffe, the hapless Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 21, 2021
The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome is already clear: The $3.5 trillion price t...
Nation
Jun 28, 2021
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It was the image progressives most feared last year as Joe Biden clinched the long 2020 Democratic primary. A President Biden stand...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Apr 02, 2021
The passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a.k.a. America’s Bankruptcy Guarantee, and the effective collapse of our southern...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Mar 01, 2021
Sen. Joe Manchin, the self-styled conservative Democrat from West Virginia, is driving progressives crazy — and he doesn’t seem to mind. Manchin says ...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 21, 2021
Whatever one thinks of the national news media, it seems clear that their insistence on reporting every detail of what President Trump has said or don...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Nov 20, 2020
Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase “defund the police”? Repeated over and over on the progressive left, it seemed pretty clear — it me...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Oct 19, 2020
Medicare Advantage, a program of competing private health plans for Medicare beneficiaries, is breaking records for enrollment, health plan choice and...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 28, 2020
For many progressive opinion-makers, the only way to save the Supreme Court is to destroy it. They believe the best response to the Republican-held Se...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 24, 2020
The number of Republicans speaking at the Democratic National Convention had progressives on edge. They shouldn’t have fretted. Even if a handful of e...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 16, 2020
On a recent episode of “The Glenn Show,” a podcast hosted by Brown University professor Glenn Loury, academic and linguist John McWhorter asked the na...
Local News, Western New York
Dec 02, 2019
ALBANY — The Working Families Party isn’t about to throw in the towel. The union-fueled third party says measures meant to boot minor parties from the...
Commentary, Nation World, New York
Sep 18, 2019
ALBANY — In the debates and on the trail, Joe Biden looks beatable. Even worse, he often seems confused and feeble. Too old, perhaps. You have to wond...
Crime, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — A West Valley woman faces felony welfare fraud charges following an investigation, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office reported. Nicole L....
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
More rain is on the way for the Olean area in the coming week, though the National Weather Service predicts a lower chance for severe weather than the...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
OLEAN — The regular monthly meeting of the Olean Public Library Board of Trustees will be held Wednesday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the library's Conf...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — To understand the engineering challenges they had set before them, members of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s Baja Racing C...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BRADFORD, Pa. — In August 2024, Keating Township supervisors Dave McClain, John Anderson and Ryan Herzog adopted a protective ordinance that attempted...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
