Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break
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By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...

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Hochul urged to revisit HEAT Act
Commentary, New York
CHRISTIAN WADE The Center Square 
Nov 01, 2023
Gov. Kathy Hochul is being urged to revisit a climate change proposal that critics argue would drive up consumer costs and deprive them of energy choi...
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Appreciating the unexpected
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH 
Nov 01, 2023
It’s funny how the seasons of the northern climates speak to us. They help us mark time as we walk through various activities and rituals in our lives...
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Anti-Israel demonstrators hate the West
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 31, 2023
The cataract of anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses has been shocking, but it shouldn’t be surprising. It is the poisoned fruit of teaching a ge...
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New House speaker is on to something
Commentary, Nation World
Oct 31, 2023
Getting the nation’s soaring debt under control should be a national priority. But many special-interest groups don’t agree. Last week, newly elected ...
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Who is Mike Johnson?
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
SUSAN SHELLEY 
Oct 30, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The weeks-long drama over who would become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives finally ended on Wednesday with the fr...
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The low expectations of ‘equity’
Commentary, Nation World
Oct 30, 2023
At some point, the left’s soft bigotry of low expectations gave way to the outright bigotry of eliminating expectations. Consider Oregon. This month, ...
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Today’s wars and the international order
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Oct 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Fiona Hill is worried. The onetime Russia adviser to then-President Donald Trump fears that support for Ukraine is gradually erodin...
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National security minded leader in House is needed
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
JONATHAN LORD RealClearPolitics 
Oct 29, 2023
In less than a month’s time, absent legislative action, the U.S. government will shut down. Meanwhile, Israel, one of the United States’ closest strat...
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States have good case vs. Meta
Commentary, Nation World
Oct 29, 2023
Thirty-three state attorneys general left, right and center have filed suit in California federal court against internet giant Meta, and another nine ...
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Melissa DeRosa’s book is Andrew Cuomo fiction
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Oct 27, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — I suppose we can give Melissa DeRosa credit for loyalty. Her new memoir, “What’s Left Unsaid,” is not the kind of tell-all we’ve become...
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A deficit of good sense
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 27, 2023
Joe Biden has been so good at cutting the deficit that it clocked in at $2 trillion last year. The president likes to boast about how much he’s reduce...
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Latest cheap move to snub NY voters
Commentary, New York
Oct 27, 2023
New York Democratic leaders keep piling on the sleaze to disenfranchise most voters by rigging the electoral map, in clear defiance of repeated statew...
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Never-ending inflation: ‘Bidenomics in action’
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
E.J. ANTONI 
Oct 26, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s bad enough that the White House helped create 40-year-high inflation. But now it has the audacity to gaslight the American peo...
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Who chose new speaker, Republicans or Trump?
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
FRANCIS WILKINSON Bloomberg Opinion 
Oct 26, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The chaos of October has brought the House GOP back to where it began: Some guy is once again speaker of the House. His name is, fo...
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Biden’s disastrous policies on the border
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Oct 25, 2023
This dangerous situation in the Middle East should jar the Biden White House into appreciating the need to strengthen border security. Unfortunately, ...
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