Opinion

Rock & Roll firsts In my desk at the office, I have a book of rock trivia that I like to thumb through from time to time. Earlier this week, I was fli...

Beauty in ugliness There are few things that capture the full sporting spectrum like a Scottish National Soccer Team game. You have the passion of dee...

Betting on Uzbekistan Generally, I don’t gamble. The risk feels like it outweighs the reward, and I’m usually pretty cautious with money. But somethin...

Time Capsule 500 As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday and the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we are alr...

A first listen YouTube is a pretty amazing treasure trove of entertainment. It’s estimated that over 720,000 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube ev...

Baseball During the spring and summer, if you cover sports, there’s a lot of baseball going on. And no real complaints here. I was raised in the proud...

Fox squirrel A fox squirrel has been using my flower planter as its personal nut pantry, and I’ve had an ongoing battle with the varmint. I had the sa...

Know your representatives Each year, the Cattaraugus County Board of Elections prints updated directories listing all the elected officials that repre...

I watched the new season of "Euphoria" so you don’t have to. Alright, fine, I didn’t. But I did watch almost all of the first three seasons of "Vampir...

Flower planting time Nothing makes me happier or relaxes me more than digging in the dirt, planting flowers. For Memorial Day, I planted eight pots to...

San Antonio Spurs I don’t think the San Antonio Spurs should be allowed to win the NBA championship. There, I said it. The last 40 years of Spurs hist...

In Sympathy Unfortunately, I’ve been mailing out a lot of sympathy cards lately. Maybe sending a physical card is an old-fashioned gesture, but growin...

Exercise self-awareness When taking driver’s ed in high school, I remember the instructor saying driving is primarily about situational awareness. But...

Dreams Dreams are weird, but for some people more so than others. I’ve had friends and family tell me about dreams where they can fly, where they tran...

The OKC Thunder Most times in sports, great teams aren’t appreciated until they’re done. For years, I rooted against teams like Tom Brady’s Patriots o...

‘Outlander’ series finale My favorite TV series, “Outlander,” came to an end last Friday after eight seasons of heartbreak, devotion and war. Starring...

Cast your ballot Every November, my pressing issue reminds our readers to go vote in the general election for their local, state and federal represent...

Josh Allen I thought I was from a crazy sports town, and particularly a crazy football town, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. But here, Josh Allen is al...