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JEFFREY W. DAVIS, Special to the Olean Times Herald

June 27, 2018

Progressive Perspective: Budgeting for the common good

One of the core tasks of government is to promote the common good. Pope John XXIII defined “the common good” as “the sum total of social conditions which allow people,

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