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Guest Comment: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Local Columnists, New York
JULIE A. TOMASI Special to Olean Times Herald 
Apr 02, 2021
National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of communities working together to help families thrive and prevent child maltreatment...
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‘SNL’ presages Joe Biden’s doom
Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Apr 02, 2021
The passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a.k.a. America’s Bankruptcy Guarantee, and the effective collapse of our southern...
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Joe Biden’s FDR delusion
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Apr 01, 2021
In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the East Room of the White House. One topic of conversation: Franklin Dela...
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Speak up for Alexei Navalny
Local Columnists, Nation World
Apr 01, 2021
The government of Canada has imposed sanctions on nine high-ranking Russian officials for “gross and systematic human rights abuses.” The most promine...
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The Ga. voter suppression lie
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 31, 2021
President Joe Biden is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he’s launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the ne...
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Prosecution of Capitol rioters
Local Columnists, Nation World
Mar 31, 2021
One of the largest criminal investigations in American history is happening right now, and it’s one we should not forget. Well over 300 people have be...
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Legal marijuana means more work accidents
Leters to the Editor, New York
Mar 31, 2021
With New York set to legalize recreational marijuana, the state must be prepared for a surge in marijuana impairment. The data is clear — in every sta...
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Biden, Buttigieg look to tax us for every mile we drive
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
Mar 30, 2021
NEW YORK — If you’re a motorist, the feds have you coming and going. And now you might have to pay the price, as President Joe Biden and Transportatio...
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COVID aid only masking huge problem for NY
Local Columnists, New York
Mar 30, 2021
Little more than a year ago, before COVID blew holes in the state budget, New York already had a $6 billion deficit to close. The biggest culprit last...
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Sorry, house rules
Local Columnists, New York
Mar 29, 2021
Casinos took their chance on Upstate New York, making all sorts of agreements and promises to share the riches that would flow. Now, with their luck n...
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Andrew Cuomo’s risky survival strategy
Local Columnists, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Mar 29, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — Faced with a sexual harassment scandal, Andrew Cuomo is asking New Yorkers to wait and be patient. ”Get the facts, please, before formi...
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Stop the steal, for real this time
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 29, 2021
Well, the principled stand Democrats took against Congress trying to overturn duly certified elections lasted all of a month or two. After rightly exc...
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Think smarter on background checks
Leters to the Editor
Mar 27, 2021
The conversations, comments and hyperbole regarding more extensive universal background checks for firearms purchases appear to advocate an unnecessar...
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Dems shouldn’t overrule Iowa vote
Local Columnists, Nation World
Mar 27, 2021
A Democratic congressional candidate from Iowa who lost a close election last year is hoping that the House will overturn the state-certified result. ...
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