Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break
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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break
By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
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Learning lags despite COVID funding
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Learning lags despite COVID funding
Feb 12, 2024
Money sent out in haste most often goes to waste. That’s an apt assessment of many government programs, and it certainly applies to funding meant to b...
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How to solve our soaring homelessness problem
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How to solve our soaring homelessness problem
RACHEL SHEFFIELD The Heritage Foundation 
Feb 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Homelessness set two records in 2023. The increase in homelessness between 2022 and 2023 was the largest ever recorded since the go...
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Yes, we ‘hate the game’
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Yes, we ‘hate the game’
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 10, 2024
Most NFL fans, no matter how hardcore they are for their own team, find a rooting interest for the Super Bowl — that’s part of what makes SB Sunday su...
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Hamas not interested in diplomacy
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Hamas not interested in diplomacy
Feb 09, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu might have been too kind this week when he called Hamas’ response to a cease-fire proposal brokered by Qatar “delusional.” “There i...
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Should you sleep with your pet?
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Should you sleep with your pet?
ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Feb 09, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Do you sleep with animals? No, I don’t mean people who, you know, do wild and crazy things in bed. I am talking about actual anima...
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What’s the border alternative?
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What’s the border alternative?
Feb 08, 2024
The Senate immigration compromise crumbled away just days after its birth. Many conservatives said it doesn’t go far enough to stem border chaos, whil...
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Biden, the Senate and the border fiasco
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Biden, the Senate and the border fiasco
BYRON YORK 
Feb 08, 2024
Joe Biden is supposed to know something about legislating. After all, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate. He must have learned something in those de...
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NYC to give migrants prepaid debit cards?
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NYC to give migrants prepaid debit cards?
Feb 08, 2024
New York City will provide migrants with $53 million worth of prepaid debit cards under a controversial new program that critics say will draw more as...
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Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
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Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
FRANCIS WILKINSON Bloomberg Opinion/TNS 
Feb 07, 2024
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982...
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Refugees cost $20B in two years
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Refugees cost $20B in two years
Feb 07, 2024
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $20 billion over the last two years on “refugee and entrant assistance” for those entering the countr...
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Why doesn’t South Carolina love Nikki Haley?
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Why doesn’t South Carolina love Nikki Haley?
JILL LAWRENCE Los Angeles Times 
Feb 07, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Nikki Haley titled her 2022 book after the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s assertion that “If you want something s...
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Permanently defund terrorist-infested UNRWA
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Permanently defund terrorist-infested UNRWA
Feb 06, 2024
U.S. tax dollars shouldn’t subsidize groups that employ terrorists. Yet the Biden administration hasn’t been able to clear that low bar. Late last mon...
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Will Biden’s ‘Goldilocks’ airstrikes work?
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Will Biden’s ‘Goldilocks’ airstrikes work?
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Feb 06, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The recent U.S. airstrikes against Iran-backed militias were the largest President Jordan Biden has ordered since he took office, a...
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