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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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Oct 17, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — As Hamas terrorists were slaughtering, kidnapping and mutilating Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Albany Law School professor Nina Farnia t...
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Oct 17, 2023
Many of us are enamored with movies and TV, and there’s not much more that some people find exciting than seeing a production being filmed in their ci...
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Oct 16, 2023
Former President Trump has held a slight lead in the RealClearPolitics Average of the polls since around Sept. 11. While his lead is well within the m...
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Oct 16, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Ever since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Israel has waged an intermittent but limited military campaign to keep a...
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Oct 15, 2023
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is no doubt complex. There are, indeed, legitimate grievances from the Palestinian people about how t...
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Oct 15, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — Compared to the horror that descended upon Israel this week, the controversies over pro-Palestinian speech at universities might seem...
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Oct 15, 2023
In 1988, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith authored “The Power Game: How Washington Works.” It was a fascinating, if unflat...
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Oct 13, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — I regret to inform you that this is a column about nothing, because that is what Congress is doing this week. Even with a horrific ...
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Oct 13, 2023
The War of 1812, like the American Civil War, has been romanticized beyond the reality of the actual historical record. However, unlike the Civil War,...
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Oct 13, 2023
The idea that paying people not to work might encourage unemployment seems like common sense. But during the pandemic, many Democrats argued precisely...
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Oct 12, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as I was reminded over the weekend when a server offered me a special rose-colored cocktail...
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Oct 12, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — With the appropriations fight in Washington in overdrive, and a barely avoided government shutdown behind it — for now — Congress sho...
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Oct 12, 2023
A new study from the Government Accountability Office estimated that the amount of fraud from pandemic-era unemployment insurance programs is likely b...
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Oct 11, 2023
City governments used to stop crime by apprehending thieves. Chicago has a different strategy: Let the perps roam free while going after the companies...
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Oct 11, 2023
There have been great strides in the fight against breast cancer in recent decades — the National Breast Cancer Foundation notes a 40% decline in brea...
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Oct 11, 2023
For all the talk that has sometimes surrounded his presidential candidacy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was never able to break through in the Democratic pri...
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Oct 11, 2023
The following lead paragraph in one news story last week speaks volumes about where things have been and where we’re headed in New York government: ”A...
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Oct 10, 2023
As another Twin Tiers EV owner, I appreciated Jamie Ervay’s article, “Dude, where’s my charger?” in Saturday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald. The ...
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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...
