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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Canada recruiting immigrants from Silicon Valley
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DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Aug 21, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Canada has launched an ambitious program to recruit highly skilled immigrants from all over the world — including from the United S...
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Only illegal pot shops flower in New York
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HARRY SIEGEL New York Daily News 
Aug 20, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — The illegal weed shop around the corner from my office in the Financial District got raided last week, as people wearing jackets mark...
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Migrants, Medicaid and more: NY’s widening budget gap
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KEN GIRARDIN Empire Center 
Aug 18, 2023
ALBANY — The multi-billion-dollar gap Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature must confront in next year’s state budget appears to be growing larger. Th...
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Joe Biden’s administrative state
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Aug 18, 2023
Janet Yellen made a stop at a Las Vegas union hall this week as part of President Joe Biden’s desperate effort to tout his administration’s economic a...
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Big Tech’s false assurance
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MOHAMMAD HOSSEINI Chicago Tribune 
Aug 18, 2023
CHICAGO (TNS) — In response to widespread concerns over artificial intelligence, representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Mic...
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Put NYC case against Trump on back burner
Commentary, New York
Aug 17, 2023
As we write nearby, the expansive indictment by a Georgia grand jury of Donald Trump and 18 allies persuasively establishes that the former president ...
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Pay more, get less — thanks, NY
Commentary, New York
Aug 17, 2023
Looking for another reason to be mad at New York’s government? Have we got an outrageous new law for you. Details about the legislation arrived via re...
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Troubling attack on a newspaper
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Aug 16, 2023
It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate comp...
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US about to fall off child care cliff
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KATHRYN A. EDWARDS 
Aug 16, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — There’s an economic calamity approaching: At the end of September, pandemic-era federal funding for child care will expire, potential...
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The weakness of Biden impeachment articles
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BYRON YORK 
Aug 16, 2023
There’s a lot of talk among House Republicans about impeaching President Joe Biden. But GOP members disagree on whether there is enough evidence to go...
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Fed workers back to in-person work
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Aug 15, 2023
Nearly two million Americans work for the federal government, but — four months after President Biden declared the COVID emergency over — way too many...
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NYC mayor vindicates immigration restrictionism
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RICH LOWRY 
Aug 15, 2023
The public intellectual Irving Kristol famously said that the definition of a neoconservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” By the sa...
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Sleepwalking toward a 2024 nightmare
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Aug 14, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — The pollster over at Siena College in Loudonville released a doozy several days ago. It might keep you up at night. The national survey...
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Not just hard-right wants Trump as GOP nominee
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
Aug 14, 2023
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — My colleague Nicole Russell recently wrote that Republicans turned hard-core MAGA Trump voters are to blame for the persiste...
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