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    Mamdani’s rise a gift GOP is already using
    Commentary, Opinion
    Mamdani’s rise a gift GOP is already using
    By DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jul 03, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani isn’t the most famous Democrat in America. But the frontrunner to serve as New York’s next mayor is well on his way — ...
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    Covid loans for 11-year-olds
    Commentary, Opinion
    Covid loans for 11-year-olds
    Jul 03, 2025
    A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is ...
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    America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
    Commentary, Opinion
    America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
    By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
    Jul 03, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...
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    Letter to the Editor: The government is us
    Commentary, Opinion
    Letter to the Editor: The government is us
    Jul 02, 2025
    As Americans gather to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts and parades, we do so at a moment of growing strain in the very government ...
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    Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
    Commentary, Opinion
    Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
    By ROD BISHOP RealClearDefense 
    Jul 02, 2025
    As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...
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    Readers’ Turn to Write: More than a teacher
    Commentary, Opinion
    Readers’ Turn to Write: More than a teacher
    By MIKE COLLINS 
    Jul 02, 2025
    High school is the time we begin to figure out who we really are — when we first gravitate to the interests that will take us toward adulthood. If we ...
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    There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
    Commentary, Opinion
    There’s a ‘double-edged sword’ in your stomach
    By F.D. FLAM Bloomberg News 
    Jul 02, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...
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    Commentary, Opinion
    Bombs now or nukes later: The new moral dilemma
    By FRANK MIELE RealClearPolitics 
    Jul 01, 2025
    Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...
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    Immigration’s big cost to states
    Commentary, Opinion
    Immigration’s big cost to states
    Jul 01, 2025
    State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...
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    To claim our independence again
    Commentary, Opinion
    To claim our independence again
    By DAVID E. FITZ 
    Jul 01, 2025
    My recent visit to the civic religious shrines and historical museums in Philadelphia highlights the threat executive power poses to democracy. In 177...
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    Commentary, Opinion
    NYC candidate for mayor could impact US politics
    Jun 30, 2025
    It’s difficult to determine who was more enthusiastic about the results of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last week, the party’s progressi...
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    Summer project No. 1: Reading list
    Commentary, Opinion
    Summer project No. 1: Reading list
    By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
    Jun 30, 2025
    The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Once again this summer, I am happy to be joining my co...
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    No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
    Commentary, Opinion
    No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
    By IVO WELCH Los Angeles Times 
    Jun 30, 2025
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your ...
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    Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
    Commentary, Opinion
    Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
    Jun 30, 2025
    As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...
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    Letter to the Editor: You’re welcome, Mr. Trump, it’s on us
    Commentary, Opinion
    Letter to the Editor: You’re welcome, Mr. Trump, it’s on us
    Jun 27, 2025
    At the Right Thinkers meeting on June 16, Ginger Schroder stated that every Democrat she's talked to is totally in favor of massive amounts of illegal...
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    Political violence must be stopped
    Commentary, Opinion
    Political violence must be stopped
    Jun 27, 2025
    In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...
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    Letter to the Editor: Medical aid in dying is about freedom of choice
    Commentary, Opinion
    Letter to the Editor: Medical aid in dying is about freedom of choice
    Jun 27, 2025
    "Medical Aid in Dying Goes Down a Dangerous Path" in Thursday's edition of the Olean Times Herald has it all wrong. The Medical Aid in Dying Act is on...
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    Mayor Mamdani in NYC? Elites shocked yet again
    Commentary, Opinion
    Mayor Mamdani in NYC? Elites shocked yet again
    By TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
    Jun 27, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, is in prime position to be elected the next mayor of New York City. R...
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    Readers’ Turn to Write: If you voted for Donald Trump…
    Commentary, Opinion
    Readers’ Turn to Write: If you voted for Donald Trump…
    By RON MISSEL 
    Jun 26, 2025
    As the reality of President Donald Trump’s second term sinks in, many disillusioned voters are now saying, “This isn’t what I voted for.” The first fe...
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    All states need workplace heat laws
    Commentary, Opinion
    All states need workplace heat laws
    By TERRI GERSTEIN New York Daily News 
    Jun 26, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — Much of New York was under a state of emergency this past week because of a blistering heat wave. State and local authorities made cl...
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    McNeil’s 2-run homer in 7th off Weaver lifts Mets over Yankees 6-5 in Subway Series opener
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    McNeil’s 2-run homer in 7th off Weaver lifts Mets over Yankees 6-5 in Subway Series opener
    July 4, 2025
    NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff McNeil hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Luke Weaver in the seventh inning, leading the New York Mets over the Yankees 6-5 on Fri...
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    Strolling on the Allegheny River Valley Trail
    Local News, News
    Strolling on the Allegheny River Valley Trail
    Jim Eckstrom 
    July 4, 2025
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    Ex-Bills, Steelers WR Chase Claypool explains year-long absence from league
    Local Sports, Sports
    Ex-Bills, Steelers WR Chase Claypool explains year-long absence from league
    By Ryan Talbot - Syracuse.com (TNS) 
    July 4, 2025
    Chase Claypool was the talk of the spring with the Buffalo Bills, in 2024. The Bills signed the wide receiver to a one-year contract on May 3 after tr...
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    Olean YMCA reaches 80% of Annual Campaign goal
    Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
    Olean YMCA reaches 80% of Annual Campaign goal
    By KELLEN M. QUIGLEY kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    July 4, 2025
    OLEAN — The Olean YMCA announced Wednesday that it has reached 80% of its Annual Campaign fundraising goal of $200,000, a major milestone that brings ...
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    Ellicottville, Allegany County receive combined $1.5 million for infrastructure projects
    Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
    Ellicottville, Allegany County receive combined $1.5 million for infrastructure projects
    Kellen Quigley kquigley@oleantimesherald.com 
    July 4, 2025
    ELLICOTTVILLE — The village of Ellicottville and the Allegany County Tourism and Culture department have been awarded a combined $1.5 million in grant...
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    Police Reports 7/03/25
    Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
    Police Reports 7/03/25
    July 4, 2025
    Salamanca Police Wednesday, 5:58 p.m., William Wilder, 51, of Salamanca, was arrested on a warrant with the charges of aggravated criminal contempt, a...
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