Commentary

Can Trump be tried?
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jan 28, 2021
House Democratic impeachment managers have delivered to the Senate a single, hastily passed article of impeachment against former President Trump. A t...
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Sticking with the WHO
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 28, 2021
Within hours of taking office, President Joe Biden announced a resumption of funding for the World Health Organization as well as participation in the...
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‘Free speech for me, but not for thee’
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 27, 2021
Long a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the American media is now having second thoughts. For decades, it was a commonplace sentiment among j...
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Traffic down, yet driving deaths up
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 26, 2021
Unsurprisingly, road traffic in 2020 was significantly depressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as Americans around the country sheltered at home to so...
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Unity, truth bring healing
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 25, 2021
President Joe Biden presents two essential values to the nation: unity and truth. Whether Americans accept them is, of course, another matter. Biden g...
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No, there won’t be national unity
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 25, 2021
Inaugural addresses are meant to be aspirational, so President Joe Biden might as well have doubled down on his call for unity in his address. After t...
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Robust action opens Biden administration
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 24, 2021
Soon after an inaugural speech in which he talked about the need for the nation to unify in order to meet interlocking crises, Joe Biden got to work g...
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Home Again: Change can have unexpected consequences
Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH - Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 23, 2021
Change can be hard. We’ve had to embrace, or at least adapt to, a lot this past year. Being in the clutches of pandemic circumstances brought requirem...
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Biden’s splendid inauguration
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Jan 23, 2021
It was a thing of beauty: a light blue, shining sky, a magnificent hymn, a powerful benediction, poetry, patriotic music and a speech in which Preside...
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Why can’t we have unity?
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 23, 2021
President Joe Biden, in his inaugural address, talked about what ails us — divisiveness and demonization. He talked about the one great goal: Unity. T...
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Biden sets right tone amid crises
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 22, 2021
The need for the unity that President Joe Biden called for Wednesday in his inaugural address was evident all around him at the Capitol and beyond. He...
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Acute TDS prevails in a post-Trump world
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jan 22, 2021
President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. An amb...
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Vaccine rollout disaster prolongs our pandemic nightmare
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
Jan 22, 2021
NEW YORK — There’s no end in sight to our long national nightmare. The arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine was supposed to usher in the final battle in our ...
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Being an insider helps Biden
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 22, 2021
Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in the White House Wednesday thanks to two unappreciated assets: He is 78 years old, and he has been a politician for more...
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Joe Biden to our friend, Canada: Drop dead
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 21, 2021
Poor Justin Trudeau. The Canadian prime minister must have been relieved to be done with President Donald Trump, only to learn that Joe Biden plans to...
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Government, private industry not the same
Leters to the Editor
Jan 21, 2021
I find it interesting that people are complaining about social media platforms that stopped Donald Trump from posting. The First Amendment of the U.S....
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Progressive Perspective: America is suffering from PTSD
Local Columnists, Nation World
CHRIS STANLEY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 21, 2021
Whatever one thinks of the national news media, it seems clear that their insistence on reporting every detail of what President Trump has said or don...
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