Cattaraugus County, News
Aug 20, 2022
As early voting in Cattaraugus County closed for a seventh day on Friday, 356 voters had cast ballots at one of the two county early voting sites. Dem...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Aug 07, 2022
By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny state of West Virg...
Letters To Editor, Opinion
Jul 31, 2022
In his article, “Despite Opposition, County Legislature Redistricting Passes,” Rick Miller failed to mention the multiple community members who spoke ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jul 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — Last week, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators agreed on a long-awaited proposal to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 l...
News
Jul 04, 2022
From strikebreakers playing the railroad for fools to a Jesse James-level of crime spree, from welcoming back Miss New York to ringing in the nation’s...
News, NY State News
Jul 04, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s path to the governor’s mansion may require a different political route than Gov. George E. Pataki took in 1994, ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 24, 2022
We all know what happens when a tree falls in an empty forest. What happens when a democracy emerges unscathed from a purported vile racist threat to ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 24, 2022
New York has never been much of a leader in conducting easy, efficient elections, but there are a few ways that this year’s June 28 primaries will fin...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 23, 2022
San Francisco is arguably America’s most progressive city, so the lopsided recall of three school-board members on Feb. 15 stunned political observers...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 29, 2022
Conservatives celebrated the defeat of the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills on Capitol Hill. They should have, since these bills were a brazen attempt...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 18, 2022
After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 15, 2022
Well, it looks like we’re headed for autocracy, then. In his wisdom, Joe Biden decided to declare in his Georgia voting speech that there’s a crisis i...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 14, 2022
New York Democrats are so intent on locking in one-party rule, they’re blatantly defying what the voters just told them. The latest example: On Monday...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 13, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...
Business, News, Western New York
Jan 11, 2022
A second Starbucks store near Buffalo, New York, has voted to unionize, one of a growing number of the coffee chain’s stores seeking to organize worke...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 06, 2022
Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 05, 2022
On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters seeking to disrupt the counting of electoral votes breached the U.S. Capitol and rampaged for hours before order was restored...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 14, 2021
Former President Donald Trump, in exile at Mar-a-Lago, isn’t acting much like a retiree. A week ago, he announced that his proposed media venture, Tru...
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...
