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Greta Thunberg is wrong
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 19, 2021
Only a few days into the United Nations’ two-week climate conference, activist Greta Thunberg pronounced it a failure. The Swedish teen famous for sco...
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Biden had better get the ports back to work
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LZ GRANDERSON Tribune News Service 
Nov 19, 2021
Port logjams and freight costs may sound like speakeasies in Silver Lake, but the pain in our wallets has forced us to brush up on these and other glo...
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Will old habits help or hurt the GOP?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 18, 2021
Republicans have a chance to take back the Senate after what was for them a disastrous 2020-21 that saw control of the chamber go to the Democrats. To...
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Kyle Rittenhouse and the adults in the room
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 17, 2021
What can sensible adults agree on regarding Kyle Rittenhouse, the latest young symbol on whom America can hang its devastating internal division and t...
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Joe Biden’s incredibly shrinking presidency
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 17, 2021
Joe Biden was never exactly a colossus bestriding the Earth, but he’s been getting smaller by the day. A Washington Post poll over the weekend suggest...
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Americans think economy is bad because it actually is
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Nov 16, 2021
Commentators friendly to the president couldn’t understand it. The economy was expanding. Unemployment was falling. But the public was unhappy about t...
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Guest Comment: Town of Portville opting out on marijuana
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TIM EMLEY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Nov 13, 2021
With every board member agreeing, we will opt out of allowing cannabis dispensaries to be permitted in the town of Portville. As the New York state de...
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Inflation a dagger aimed at Biden presidency
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RICH LOWRY 
Nov 13, 2021
The experience of the last Democratic president who presided over a significant bout of inflation wasn’t a happy one, and if the Biden White House isn...
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Spending bill glutted by waste, pork
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 10, 2021
The House of Representatives late Friday approved a key element of the Biden administration’s domestic agenda — a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. T...
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Joe Biden’s high-handed child care proposal
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RICH LOWRY 
Nov 10, 2021
President Joe Biden wants to bring the same discerning, common-sensical governing style to American child care that has his job approval rating in the...
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Americans want optimism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 10, 2021
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker would not have fallen into the trap that befell Terry McAuliffe, the hapless Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia...
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Biden can still bounce back
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 09, 2021
When Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, he had all the advantages of a nonincumbent in a year when everything had gone wrong. Biden waged a careful,...
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Losing our religion
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Nov 08, 2021
"Love is love." "Science is science." Homes and offices in Washington, D.C. must display every politically correct lawn sign there is. Could it be the...
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Trump still a factor
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID SHRIBMAN 
Nov 08, 2021
You saw the play when it first came out. Now you are watching the movie that followed. It was great drama, to be sure, the first time around. It was t...
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Trump’s bad night in Virginia
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RICH LOWRY 
Nov 06, 2021
Nov. 2 was a boffo night for the Republican Party, and not such a great night for Donald Trump. It’s not as though the interests of the two are diamet...
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The villains of COVID
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Nov 05, 2021
Just before global leaders gathered in Rome for the G-20, to blather about confronting COVID-19 globally, a damning report was issued by a Brazilian s...
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Democrats’ progressive overreach
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 05, 2021
Democrats have badly overplayed the hand they were dealt when voters in 2020 gave them control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Party m...
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