Opinion

What’s happening? A few months ago, we revamped a few sections of the Press, so our Out & About page is now featured entirely on A-2 each week. If the...

Where’s my $5,000? Last Tuesday, millions of Americans went in to vote, filled out their ballot, and foolishly missed out on a golden opportunity to p...

Cleveland Browns I’m from Cleveland. Satchel Paige is one of baseball’s greatest ever pitchers, with segregation preventing him from spending his grea...

Back to FDR What a relief to have the mid-term elections over and those political TV commercials behind us. They were a civil war of words and misinfo...

Get out and vote Time for my obligatory Election Day pressing issue again. If there are things to vote on in whatever municipality or township you liv...

'You Can See Everything' Rarely would I take to the pages of the Salamanca Press's Pressing Issue to promote something with genuine seriousness, but t...

Handshakes A strong handshake and a smile go a long way. It exudes confidence and friendliness that is, hopefully, genuine. I like a handshake that is...

More horror movies My quest to watch more horror movies continued this past week with three classics and a popular entry from earlier this year. “Cujo...

Haliburton returns Tyrese Haliburton made his NBA return on Wednesday, playing for the first time since June 2025, after a playoff run where he hit nu...

No punctuation With the exception of those people who take pride in their written words, the days of proper English have passed. It’s been happening f...

‘One Hit Wonderland’ In recent weeks, I’ve been rewatching the back catalogue of Todd in the Shadows, one of my favorite YouTube creators who reviews ...

U.S. men's soccer Boldly, in the first four matches after the World Cup, the U.S. trotted out a roster nearly half filled with teenagers who had never...

Window seat preferred Flying is something I don’t do often, but when I do go off into the “wild blue yonder,” I prefer a window seat. I love to look o...

Spooky movies Each October, I tell myself I’ll watch more horror movies before Halloween, but each time I don’t watch as many as I’d like. The thing i...

Man City For years, Manchester City’s “115 charges” have hovered over English football in an abstract way — while they pointed to repeated falsified f...

‘The Wizard of Oz’ MeTV is celebrating “The Wizard of Oz” all this month, marking the movie’s first return to free broadcast television in nearly thre...

Signs of change At last week’s Cattaraugus County Legislature meeting, longtime county Industrial Development Agency (IDA) board member Joe Higgins wa...

New NBA season If you’re an NBA fan, maybe you’re excited for the new season to start. Probably not, though, if you root for the Los Angeles Clippers....