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Unseen work to make Olean a better place
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
April 1, 2020
People walking and wheeling Thursday afternoon on the Allegheny River Valley Trail may have seen a man who wasn’t there for fun. He looked to be a tad...
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Keeping our distractions in perspective
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
October 10, 2017
After slaughter in Las Vegas and devastation in Puerto Rico, it felt disconcerting — wrong, even — to mourn the death of rock star Tom Petty. After al...
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Kim and Trump echo each other with rhetoric
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
September 25, 2017
After President Trump’s speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly, it’s clear that he and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un are pret...
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Another Long Hot Summer
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
August 21, 2017
A friend of more than 50 years and I were talking on the telephone Sunday, and as usual, our conversation focused on politics. My friend lives in a su...
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Kim Jong Un’s ‘chips ‘n’ beer’ staff meeting
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
August 15, 2017
After reading my columns criticizing President Donald Trump, a source sent me a recording of a meeting involving Kim Jong Un and his top three adviser...
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All the ‘winning’ must be getting tedious by now
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
August 8, 2017
I flew to see family in Florida last month, and to avoid distractions, I didn’t watch or read the news. It wasn’t until I got home that Monday that I ...
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Independence came with a cost
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
July 4, 2017
The intersection of music and current events has interested me since junior high school, when I went from playing Bill Cosby albums to listening to so...
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Why battle to keep such an offensive trademark?
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
June 27, 2017
The Supreme Court ruled this week against a federal law that banned offensive trademarks. The ruling revived the debate about the NFL’s Washington Red...
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