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    Democrats now the party of the bureaucracy
    Commentary, Nation World
    Democrats now the party of the bureaucracy
    NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
    Mar 03, 2025
    DETROIT (TNS) — Democrats lost the fall election by allowing themselves to be tagged as the party of inflation and illegal immigration. They seem boun...
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    Guest Comment: Trump brings shame upon America
    Commentary, Local Columnists
    Guest Comment: Trump brings shame upon America
    MARTHA TILLINGER 
    Mar 03, 2025
    Thanks to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court decision to grant him untethered carte blanche to do whatever he wishes without repercussions, he has...
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    Trump’s order on IVF could alienate Catholic supporters
    Commentary, Nation World
    Trump’s order on IVF could alienate Catholic supporters
    CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
    Mar 03, 2025
    FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Trump gives, and Trump takes away. That is the sentiment felt by many conservative Catholics after the president announced a...
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    Letter to the Editor: Trump is trying to save our democracy
    Commentary, Leters to the Editor
    Letter to the Editor: Trump is trying to save our democracy
    Feb 28, 2025
    After reading "Trump Continues to be a Threat to Our Dedmocracy" by Martha Tillinger in the Feb. 8 edition of the Times Herald, I thought, "Here we go...
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    What the heck is Antonio Delgado thinking?
    Commentary, New York
    What the heck is Antonio Delgado thinking?
    CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
    Feb 28, 2025
    ALBANY (TNS) — In New York's long and storied history, one Schenectady native has been governor. That's Joseph Yates, who served a two-year term in th...
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    And you thought YOUR job was important
    Commentary, Nation World
    And you thought YOUR job was important
    J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
    Feb 28, 2025
    I confess: I’ve always had back-handed respect for public sector workers. It seemed to me they had figured out how to earn decent money with great ben...
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    Congo splurged at Davos on USAID dime
    Commentary, Nation World
    Congo splurged at Davos on USAID dime
    Feb 28, 2025
    The U.S. Agency for International Development sent $1.3 billion in foreign assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, the world’s f...
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    New York’s answer to billionaire-fueled campaigns
    Commentary, New York
    New York’s answer to billionaire-fueled campaigns
    CELINA AVALOS JARAMILLIO and IAN VANDEWALKER 
    Feb 28, 2025
    NEW YORK — When it comes to presidential politics, it’s a billionaire’s world. President Donald Trump’s campaign was buoyed by a few megadonors. It mi...
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    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    Commentary, Nation World
    Cutting red tape can supercharge growth — and tame inflation
    WILLIAM BEACH and PARKER SHEPPARD 
    Feb 27, 2025
    The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation. Quite literally, in fact: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations ...
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    Gabbard right to fight UK on Apple order
    Commentary, Nation World
    Gabbard right to fight UK on Apple order
    Feb 27, 2025
    Director of National IntelligenceTulsi Gabbardis going to bat for civil liberties against the overreaching British government. Earlier this month, the...
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    What Jeff Bezos really wants
    Commentary, Nation World
    What Jeff Bezos really wants
    DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Feb 27, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was surprised to hear the three men I was talking to praise the Danish welfare state. A friend had invited me to the opening rece...
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    Readers’ Turn to Write: Langworthy must address concerns about DOGE
    Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
    Readers’ Turn to Write: Langworthy must address concerns about DOGE
    KATIE GIES 
    Feb 26, 2025
    Rep. Nick Langworthy is sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the laws of our country and to serve his constituents. He is doing none of these things...
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    Plastic in your brain? Don’t panic — yet
    Commentary, Nation World
    Plastic in your brain? Don’t panic — yet
    F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
    Feb 26, 2025
    NEW YORK (TNS) — When aCBS Newsmedical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her co...
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    The Inflation Reduction Act is over budget and underperforming
    Commentary, Nation World
    The Inflation Reduction Act is over budget and underperforming
    Feb 26, 2025
    The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emis...
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    Billions spent on immigration aid
    Commentary, Nation World
    Billions spent on immigration aid
    Feb 25, 2025
    The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020...
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    Blow billions on train to nowhere? Trump says ‘Enough’
    Commentary, Nation World
    Blow billions on train to nowhere? Trump says ‘Enough’
    DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
    Feb 25, 2025
    WASHINGTON(TNS) — Kudos to President Donald Trump for moving to cut off the spigot of federal funds for the California High-Speed Rail project during ...
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    Looking ahead at Trump’s endgame
    Commentary, Nation World
    Looking ahead at Trump’s endgame
    G. DIRK MATEER and CHARITY-JOY ACCHIARDO RealClearPolitics 
    Feb 25, 2025
    What lies ahead now that Americans have just witnessed one of the most dramatic trade gambits seen at the beginning of a presidential term? By most ac...
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    Editorial: ‘The certainty of arrest and return’
    Commentary, Nation World
    Editorial: ‘The certainty of arrest and return’
    Feb 24, 2025
    PresidentDonald Trumphas for now delivered smashingly on his campaign promise to gain control of our southern border. The numbers tell the story. TheB...
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    Guest Comment: 152 reasons to run for office
    Commentary, Leters to the Editor
    Guest Comment: 152 reasons to run for office
    KAREN ASH 
    Feb 24, 2025
    “Everything is impossible until it is done.” — Nelson Mandela Ideally, representative government reflects the composition and interests of its constit...
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    Letter to the Editor: It should be about making lives better
    Commentary, Leters to the Editor
    Letter to the Editor: It should be about making lives better
    Feb 24, 2025
    Two our senators and representatives, What are you doing? I don’t feel safe in this country anymore. The military has weakened. Our health care feels ...
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    ECLV falls to LeRoy in District 2 final
    Local Sports, Sports
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    ECLV falls to LeRoy in District 2 final
    ECLV’s inspired run ends with 6-3 loss in title game
    By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
    July 6, 2025
    LITTLE VALLEY — Over the last two weeks, Joe Myers emphasized three words above all others to his 11-12 all-stars: Never give up. And for the duration...
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    Bellinger’s shoestring catch starts double play, helps Yankees end 6-game losing streak
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    Bellinger’s shoestring catch starts double play, helps Yankees end 6-game losing streak
    By LARRY FLEISHER - Associated Press 
    July 6, 2025
    NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Bellinger watched Juan Soto hit a sinking line drive, charged in a few steps from left field and stuck out his arm as the ball dr...
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    From drought to Super Bowl doorstep: Picking the Bills’ quarter-century 53-man roster
    Local Sports, Sports
    From drought to Super Bowl doorstep: Picking the Bills’ quarter-century 53-man roster
    Corey Deiterman 
    July 6, 2025
    Twenty-five years have passed since the Y2K scare fizzled. During that period, the Buffalo Bills have gone from scary inept to scary good. The first 1...
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    Trump protesters turn out again in Olean
    Local News, News
    Trump protesters turn out again in Olean
    By MARCIA M. KELLY Special to Olean Times Herald 
    July 5, 2025
    OLEAN — Demonstrators returned to Lincoln Park on Saturday afternoon, using the Fourth of July weekend to draw focus on their opposition to the polici...
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    What’s in the tax and spending bill that Trump has signed into law
    Local News, National News, News
    What’s in the tax and spending bill that Trump has signed into law
    By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press 
    July 5, 2025
    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed the tax and spending cut bill Republicans muscled through Congress this week, turning it into law...
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    Expect the unexpected in nature
    Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
    Expect the unexpected in nature
    By WADE ROBERTSON 
    July 5, 2025
    Mother Nature is an all-prevailing force. We exist at her fancy. In her mercy crops are grown, the earth cleaves together, the sun gives life. In her ...
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