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NY’s most egregious tax break?
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Mar 21, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — I’m a fan of the Boston Celtics, which means, among other things, that I’m not especially inclined to give owners of New York basketbal...
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SVB collapse may be a blessing in disguise
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DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Mar 20, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the brief but spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, we may just have witnessed the best banking crisis ever. It might eve...
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Tech industry ads to its greedy image
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Mar 19, 2023
Day by day, month by month, year by year, greed is ruining the tech industry’s image. This time it was tech’s response to the failure of its primary f...
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Keep hiking despite SVB turmoil
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Mar 17, 2023
Last week, after hawkish testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, markets penciled in a half-point increase in interest rates following the...
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Time to rethink government bailouts
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Mar 16, 2023
The demise of Silicon Valley Bank has put the U.S. government into an uncomfortable position, backstopping depositors like never before to prevent a b...
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Dragged into the culture wars
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Mar 15, 2023
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For those of you who think the culture wars do not affect regular people, I am here to tell you they do. In the past I have written t...
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Biden and Democrats’ chronic crime problem
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BYRON YORK 
Mar 15, 2023
What’s one good clue that President Joe Biden really intends to run for reelection in 2024? He is trying to distance himself from the Democratic Party...
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Biden opens bidding; where’s GOP plan?
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 13, 2023
President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction. A party platfo...
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The risk of a ‘surveillance state’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 13, 2023
We are being watched. There are surveillance cameras everywhere — in subway stations, on street corners, on highways and byways, in parking lots, in b...
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Still searching for sunshine in ‘open society’
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WILLIAM BOWMAN 
Mar 12, 2023
It’s been nearly 60 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act. The signing was done out of the view of the public, ir...
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A bipartisan problem requires a bipartisan solution
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FRED LUCAS Tribune News Service 
Mar 12, 2023
Los Angeles County, a bastion of left-wing politics, removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls in February — a move the Democrats fre...
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Violent leftists feed the right’s narrative
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 12, 2023
The violent protest against the construction of a police training center in Atlanta exemplifies how little the radical left has learned since the 2020...
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Say it with Rubio: Changing clocks is stupid
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ALLISON SCHRAGER Tribune News Service 
Mar 10, 2023
I have mixed feelings about many of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s policies, but he will always be a hero to me. I can’t help but admire his determination...
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Israel’s judicial crisis also impacts the US
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TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 09, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — It is quite stunning to watch the elected leader of a democracy drag his country toward authoritarianism and a civil war — and al...
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In Albany, the fear of too much democracy
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Mar 08, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — A top concern of most Albany lawmakers is job security. They don’t want to make it easy for voters to choose somebody else. That helps ...
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The Peter (Buttigieg) Principle
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BYRON YORK 
Mar 08, 2023
In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Lawrence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Princ...
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Trumpian personality cult afflicts the GOP
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 08, 2023
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has been a beacon of anti-Trump sanity in a Republican Party that has too little of it these days. In that sense, his...
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