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Cuomo tuition plan could hurt NY economies
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
ANDREW ROTH, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Feb 10, 2017
Imagine Houghton without Houghton or Ithaca without Ithaca. Elmira without Elmira or Utica without Utica. Now imagine Allegany and Olean without St. B...
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Day Sager: Only seeing his abilities
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KATE DAY SAGER Olean Times Herald 
Feb 07, 2017
When my phone began ringing late one night last week, I grabbed it, concerned it might be my elderly mother or another relative in need of something. ...
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Direct support pros deserve living wage
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
MARY HOWARD, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Feb 06, 2017
In any parent’s life, the most significant element to being a parent is the care of our children. What is more important than knowing that those entru...
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Home Again: Books on shelf bring comfort
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 30, 2017
Sometimes a comment will stimulate thoughts you hadn’t really considered. My sister-in-law, Robin, was visiting my house in Portville one day and look...
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Eckstrom: Perceptions on two sides
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Jan 28, 2017
Shortly after the Nov. 8 election, I wrote an “Our View” editorial that touched in part on the shocked reaction so-called elites in politics and gover...
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On Trump, ‘The tribe has spoken’
Commentary, Local Columnists
WANDA SHIRK, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 27, 2017
In the immortal words of Jeff Probst, host of the CBS television show “Survivor”: “The tribe has spoken.” And so, Friday, in the acclaimed “peaceful t...
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Betsy DeVos woefully unqualified
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PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 24, 2017
Any U.S. senator who votes to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education should be jammed into a burn barrel and launched into the Potomac River. D...
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Home Again: Catchphrases can help keep us going
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 24, 2017
I’ve had a rough week. First, my basement flooded. It wasn’t just some water to push into a drain like typically happens after a snowmelt or hard rain...
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Political divide from a learned, moral perspective
Commentary, Local Columnists
KELSEY BOUDIN, Olean Times Herald 
Jan 23, 2017
In an initial interview, as Sister Margaret Carney plunged deeper into cancer treatment in August, she didn’t wish to discuss the nation’s political c...
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Considering ‘free’ tution
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Jan 15, 2017
When I was a college student signing up for classes at the University of Toledo, I had my dad’s credit card in my pocket. I filled up my schedule and ...
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Is Megyn Kelly really worth all those millions?
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 12, 2017
Dollar signs danced through my head after news last week about Megyn Kelly, Congressman Tom Reed and Obamacare. Let’s start with Kelly and her new NBC...
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Home Again: Get organized for 2017
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WEUTHRICH, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 09, 2017
The magazines in the checkout aisle seem to scream a message: “Get Organized.” A headline on my latest trade magazine for writers reads, “Get Organize...
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Guest Commentary: How will historians judge Obama?
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GARY B. OSTROWER, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 04, 2017
A reporter on the campaign trail tells a story about Obama that you probably never heard. When speaking at a Clinton rally in Fayetteville, N.C. a few...
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The other side of Christmas
Commentary, Local Columnists
DR. DEREK CHEEK, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Dec 31, 2016
Over the past week many of us have heard the traditional Christmas story, again — the one Linus recites in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It’s found in ...
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Trump botches chance after Paladino outrage
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GEORGE ?CASEY? PAYNE, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Dec 31, 2016
In an article in Artvoice, Buffalo developer, school board member and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is quoted as saying in 2...
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Paris 2016: City of pleasure, pain
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ALAN LITTELL Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Dec 23, 2016
My brother is a writer by trade. His name is Robert Littell. He has lived in France for close on half a century. He has a house in the south of the co...
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