Editorial

Screenings for cancer are critical
Editorial
Sep 03, 2012
The Cancer Services Program of Allegany and Cattaraugus Counties would like to add its recommendation to The American Cancer Society that women aged 4...
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Who cares…
Editorial
By Pete Jermann Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Sep 03, 2012
As the election nears, beating dead dogs again reappears as a favorite liberal pastime. Perhaps the strangest dead dog is the one that says it is more...
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Bills leave preseason looking sick
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 31, 2012
On a night when 93-year-old owner Ralph Wilson was admitted to the hospital in “good condition,” with an illness, it was his Buffalo Bills who looked ...
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Is it pro-life, or pro-birth?
Editorial
JIM COSTANZA, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 31, 2012
With respect to the issue of abortion, the radical, repressive right has long maintained the fiction of being pro-life. And, while it is true that the...
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Kicking off the season with a few grid notes
Editorial, Sports
TOM ROOF Olean Times Herald 
Aug 30, 2012
A few final football notes while waiting for the start of the Big 30 season Friday night: FIRST-YEAR Smethport High School head football coach Jim Ber...
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A Congress that’s bought and paid for
Editorial
Aug 30, 2012
Please understand me. I don’t care two whoops whether Tom Reed and his wife went for a dip in the Sea of Galilee or not. Many people enjoy a swim on v...
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Left living its dream — right now
Editorial
JOHN STENGEL Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 30, 2012
I thank Dr. Barry Gan for his courtesy towards me in our debate earlier this summer on President Obama at the Olean Public Library. Too bad some in th...
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Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 28, 2012
That didn’t take long. Three preseason games were all it took for the Bills to abandon the Vince Young experiment. One of the great quarterbacks in co...
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At AU, Murray starting to see the big picture
Editorial, Sports
JIM MELARO, Olean Times Herald 
Aug 27, 2012
ALFRED — At the end of the 2002 season, the Allegany-Limestone girls’ soccer team punctuated a 20-2-2 campaign by playing Immaculate Heart to a scorel...
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Pressing crisis being ignored
Editorial
Aug 25, 2012
Aug. 14 marked the anniversary of the Social Security Act. For those who are 65 and over, Social Security and Medicare continues to be a main source o...
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Some words to live by
Editorial
Aug 25, 2012
My heart goes out to all the victims of the Aurora, Colo., shootings and their families. These people were caught off guard in the terrible tragedy, w...
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Meaningful concussion discussion
Editorial, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Aug 25, 2012
ORCHARD PARK — Ask Mark Kelso how many concussions he suffered during an eight-year career as a free safety for the Buffalo Bills and the cerebral alu...
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Great people out there
Editorial
Aug 24, 2012
It is great to know that there are still some amazing people out there. On Monday, my mom, Mary Ann Scanlon, and I took my three children to Twist and...
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Backus hoping to reestablish the KO Factory
Editorial, Sports
JEFF MADIGAN Olean Times Herald 
Aug 24, 2012
SALAMANCA – When Michael ‘Snake’ Tome passed away in May 2011, the future of The Knockout Factory — his Salamanca gym which trained men and women to b...
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This is our brilliant leader?
Editorial
LEON E. HILLYARD, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 24, 2012
It would take far more space than is available and better writing skills from me to adequately respond to comments this summer in praise of President ...
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Back-to-back signature events for city of Olean
Editorial
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Aug 23, 2012
One might think that after pulling off one of the top events of the summer — the Gus Macker 3 on 3 basketball tournament last weekend — Olean would re...
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