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NCAA shocked by gambling
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Jul 30, 2023
Illegal sports gambling was a major problem on college campuses long before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal law in 2018 that had precluded...
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The Florida slavery smear
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RICH LOWRY 
Jul 28, 2023
There have been so many poisonous and stupid lies about Florida since 2020, it’s almost hard to keep track, but the latest may be the most outrageous....
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Dancing too close to a temperature tipping point
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F.D. FLAM 
Jul 27, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — Between this summer’s biblical floods, apocalyptic fires and life-threatening heat domes, people are starting to wonder whether we’ve...
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Inflation: Who’s really at fault?
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PETER ST. ONGE 
Jul 27, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Did greedy grocers and grabby workers cause the inflation? That’s what the central bankers of the world would have us believe. Appa...
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As autism rises, answers remain elusive
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Jul 26, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Mulling over the conspiracies pushed by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led me to a question: Why aren’t more p...
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New York City: A sanctuary no more
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BYRON YORK 
Jul 26, 2023
Recently, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has printed thousands of flyers it plans to distribute at the U.S.-Mexico border. The flye...
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Dropping the bomb on Japan was right call
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RICH LOWRY 
Jul 25, 2023
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally. The eponymous physicist and “f...
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Doubts, questions about Biden will only grow
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A.B. STODDARD 
Jul 24, 2023
Wow, big news broke last week — President Biden’s campaign is officially going to be headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. For months nervous Democra...
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Hochul pushes more housing construction
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Jul 23, 2023
If people have any chance of living here affordably, New York City and its environs desperately need more housing, with a substantial share of it rese...
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Ron DeSantis’ big mistake
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LINDA CHAVEZ 
Jul 23, 2023
Ron DeSantis seems to believe that his best chance of becoming the GOP presidential nominee is to be more extreme than the guy he needs to defeat, Don...
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Require SCOTUS ethics code
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Jul 21, 2023
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee offered U.S. Supreme Court justices an opportunity to salvage their standing with the American people on W...
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Local news is good for business
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DEAN RIDINGS 
Jul 21, 2023
It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support...
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