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    Justice Department crisis was an unforced error
    Commentary, Nation World, New York
    Justice Department crisis was an unforced error
    NOAH FELDMAN - Bloomberg Opinion 
    Feb 21, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about theJustice Departmentprosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges againstN...
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    Letter to the Editor: D’Youville University seeks physicians to be founding faculty members
    Commentary, Leters to the Editor
    Letter to the Editor: D’Youville University seeks physicians to be founding faculty members
    Feb 21, 2025
    New York has a severe shortage of primary care physicians — as virtually anyone who has attempted to find a new doctor in recent years can attest. The...
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    Guest Comment: Cattaraugus County ill-served by single-party rule
    Commentary, Local Columnists
    Guest Comment: Cattaraugus County ill-served by single-party rule
    MANDY BUSHNELL 
    Feb 21, 2025
    Let’s be honest with ourselves. The current political climate is toxic for both sides of the aisle. For some time now, though, it has been extreme and...
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    Trump is delivering, but the goal shouldn’t be chaos
    Commentary, Nation World
    Trump is delivering, but the goal shouldn’t be chaos
    MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
    Feb 21, 2025
    HILTON HEAD, S.C. (TNS) — It’s been pretty entertaining watching the left unravel day after day. Turn on almost any network — exceptFox News— and you’...
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    Europe’s self-inflicted irrelevance
    Commentary, Nation World
    Europe’s self-inflicted irrelevance
    ANDREW LATHAM RealClearPolitics 
    Feb 20, 2025
    The great and the good of Europe gathered in Paris for yet another emergency summit, this time to discuss Ukraine and “security in Europe.” The specta...
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    Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
    Commentary, Nation World
    Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
    CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
    Feb 20, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump...
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    Letter to the Editor: St. John Parish members not giving up
    Commentary, Leters to the Editor, Local Columnists
    Letter to the Editor: St. John Parish members not giving up
    Feb 19, 2025
    I am writing this to make our community aware that St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Olean remains a parish and is not currently design...
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    Live, from New York and Washington, it’s liberal media bias
    Commentary, Nation World
    Live, from New York and Washington, it’s liberal media bias
    DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
    Feb 19, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Sunday night’s “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” celebrated the long-running NBC show as you knew it would — with the soothing reass...
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    New York drivers dodge $5B in tolls
    Commentary, New York
    New York drivers dodge $5B in tolls
    Feb 19, 2025
    New York City angered its drivers with new “ congestion pricing ” for travel into Manhattan, but perhaps officials should be more focused on collectin...
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    Some rare diseases not as rare as you think
    Commentary, Local Columnists
    Some rare diseases not as rare as you think
    DEB WUETHRICH 
    Feb 19, 2025
    February is Rare Disease Awareness month. The upcoming week has been declared Rare Disease Awareness week, with Rare Disease Day being Feb. 28. My hus...
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    Appeal 2025 provides hope for all with help from all
    Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
    Appeal 2025 provides hope for all with help from all
    STEVE SCHUMER 
    Feb 18, 2025
    After more than 100 years, the work of Catholic Charities is deeply woven into the fabric of our community, providing hope for all neighbors in every ...
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    Trump, Musk are upending a broken status quo
    Commentary, Nation World
    Trump, Musk are upending a broken status quo
    SUSAN SHELLEY The Orange County Register 
    Feb 18, 2025
    LOS ANGELES (TNS) — A screeching effort has failed to stopTrump White HouseadvisorElon Muskfrom seeing the government’s books and flagging waste, frau...
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    The debate over wine in NY grocery stores
    Commentary, New York
    The debate over wine in NY grocery stores
    CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
    Feb 18, 2025
    ALBANY (TNS) — In my young and wild days, three years ago, I seem to have written a column or two suggesting that wine should be sold in New York's gr...
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    Remembering the great Frederick Douglass
    Commentary, Nation World
    Remembering the great Frederick Douglass
    Feb 18, 2025
    Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later choseFeb. 14as his birthdate. We urge all Americans ...
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    Americans would pay higher taxes to save Social Security
    Commentary, Nation World
    Americans would pay higher taxes to save Social Security
    KATHRYN ANNE EDWARDS Bloomberg Opinion 
    Feb 18, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Social Security’s deep popularity among voters has earned it a reputation as the third rail of politics, meaningCongressis afraid t...
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    NY’s all-electric school bus mandate still ignoring STOP signs
    Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
    NY’s all-electric school bus mandate still ignoring STOP signs
    SEN. TOM O'MARA 
    Feb 17, 2025
    It was a year ago this week when I joined legislative colleagues and school district representatives in Albany for a “Pump the Brakes” news conference...
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    More bad news for taxpayers
    Commentary, Nation World
    More bad news for taxpayers
    Feb 17, 2025
    The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s bian...
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    Readers’ Turn to Write: It’s time to stand up for democracy
    Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
    Readers’ Turn to Write: It’s time to stand up for democracy
    DAVID FITZ Special to Olean Times Herald 
    Feb 17, 2025
    An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...
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    Like it or not, Washington needs ‘creative destruction’ brought by Trump and Musk
    Commentary, Nation World
    Like it or not, Washington needs ‘creative destruction’ brought by Trump and Musk
    DAVID MASTIO The Kansas City Star 
    Feb 17, 2025
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — Before Donald Trump, change came to Washington very slowly. Now it has come in a great, big, destructive whirl. Trump’s Department ...
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    Trump’s third-term musings seem more a tease than a pledge
    Commentary, Nation World
    Trump’s third-term musings seem more a tease than a pledge
    NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press 
    Feb 14, 2025
    President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started making quips abo...
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    ECLV falls to LeRoy in District 2 final
    Local Sports, Sports
    NYS LITTLE LEAGUE
    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
    Nick Sabato - Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, N.Y. (TNS) 
    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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