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It’s not 2020 anymore
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Nov 04, 2021
There’s been a lot of attention paid to President Joe Biden’s falling job approval rating. And it is indeed going down, down, down. But along with con...
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Inflation should halt Biden agenda
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 04, 2021
Inflation continues to rise, pummeling consumers and raising serious concerns over the big spending agenda of President Joe Biden. Personal consumptio...
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Broken supply chain a chance to learn to live with less
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Nov 02, 2021
Headlines are projecting that the prospects for the upcoming holidays look bleak. COVID-19 is in retreat, thankfully, but new obstacles to the season’...
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Dems produce Frankenbill, but it just might work
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 02, 2021
Say what you like about Congress’ squabbling and eternally disarrayed Democrats; they’ve showed in the last few weeks that they deserve to be recogniz...
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We need a new Man-on-the-Moon Moment
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MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Oct 30, 2021
As global leaders gather in Glasgow, desperately seeking to save our over-heating planet from this cataclysmic cycle of worst-ever storms and droughts...
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What it means if Youngkin wins in Va.
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 30, 2021
A specter haunts the Democratic Party — the possibility of a Glenn Youngkin victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race. The former businessman and pol...
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Bringing back postal banking
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 30, 2021
In 1947, more than 4 million Americans owned $3.4 billion in saving deposits held not by a bank or credit union, but by the U.S. Postal Service. It’s ...
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The boys of autumn
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GENE LYONS 
Oct 29, 2021
The World Series has come around again, evoking the usual mixed feelings. For one thing, I don’t have a team this year, although I’ll be pulling for A...
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Keep inflation from being a crisis
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 28, 2021
Prices for most goods jumped again in September, continuing a trend the Biden administration and many hopeful economists labeled as “transitory” earli...
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Rationality is not just a white male thing
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 27, 2021
George Orwell famously said that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” His adage now applies to anyone associ...
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Trump’s real reason for running again for president
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Oct 26, 2021
Throughout his epic, scandal-ridden career, Donald Trump has compiled an astonishing record of impunity, constantly staying one jump ahead of prosecut...
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Engaging in ‘insurrection’ theater on Capitol Hill
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 25, 2021
First thing’s first: Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is a political animal. It became one the second that Pelo...
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Guns and anger a bad combination
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 25, 2021
Federal aviation officials say more airline passengers than ever are showing up at airports with guns. Combined with the general uptick in belligerent...
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Guns and anger a bad combination
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 25, 2021
Federal aviation officials say more airline passengers than ever are showing up at airports with guns. Combined with the general uptick in belligerent...
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Is Trump’s grip on the GOP weakening?
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 23, 2021
Republican politicians can be forgiven for thinking that the GOP is Trump’s world and they only live in it at his sufferance. He not only survived Jan...
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Biden faces a major test
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 23, 2021
He may not be onetime Master of the Senate Lyndon Johnson, but, having spent 36 years in the upper house and eight years in the vice presidency, Joe B...
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