Opinion

Ukraine war is likely to last a long time
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DOYLE McMANUS 
Jun 05, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Ukraine’s long-awaited spring offensive against Russia’s invasion has been postponed so long that it has acquired a new name. It’s ...
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Outrage over Tim Hortons attack in WNY
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jun 04, 2023
It was about as ugly a thing as you could watch on social media. A woman viciously attacked by several people behind the counter of a coffee shop. It ...
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Hochul urges more Upstate counties to take in migrants
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RICK MORIARTY syracuse.com 
Jun 02, 2023
SYRACUSE (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul called on Upstate New York counties to take in some of the thousands of migrants now housed in New York City while ...
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RTW: NY’s end run benefits renewable projects
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BRENDA HANSON 
Jun 02, 2023
There’s a rather grisly idiom that states, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Using the New York state budget, the Department of Taxation and ...
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The world’s most worthless currency
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SIMON HANKINSON 
Jun 02, 2023
Monopoly money” is a term for useless paper notes. Inflation was so bad in 1930s Weimar Germany, it took literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy groceries...
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Raise the minimum age for operating ATVs
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jun 02, 2023
On May 26, 14-year-old Kyleigh Rampley of Cherokee County, Ala., had just finished her final class of seventh-grade when she decided to go out for a r...
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The debt deal’s modest improvements
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 01, 2023
Something is usually better than nothing — and that’s certainly the case with the debt ceiling compromise. More than a handful of House Republicans ar...
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What goes without saying might need to be said
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DEB WUETHRICH 
May 31, 2023
It often happens at funerals that the heart seems open to the words: “I love you.” We ask ourselves, “Why didn’t I say it more, show it more?” This se...
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Don’t fall for any third-party baloney
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NICHOLAS GOLDBERG 
May 31, 2023
I received an email recently from a frustrated reader complaining that the 2024 presidential election was shaping up to be an unsatisfying do-over fea...
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Pregame is over for Trump vs. DeSantis
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BYRON YORK 
May 31, 2023
There’s been a huge amount of commentary on former President Donald Trump’s big lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis in national polls. In the current RealClea...
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A start on immigration reform
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
May 30, 2023
As the debt ceiling showdown moves toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group has offered a path forward on another controversial issue: imm...
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First-person sources can re-humanize history
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HANS ZEIGER 
May 30, 2023
The field of American history is in crisis. Earlier this month, the Department of Education released troubling data indicating that only 13% of eighth...
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Republicans are crowding the 2024 race
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DOYLE McMANUS 
May 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination, once a two-man battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. R...
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Flight of affluent taxpayers catches up with NY
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
JUSTIN FOX 
May 29, 2023
New York has been losing people to other states for a while. But something new happened during the pandemic: The people who left had higher incomes th...
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Trump in 2024: Third time’s the charm?
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
May 29, 2023
Donald Trump is on a roll. Based on the RealClearPolitics polling average, he currently has the support of 56% of likely voters in the Republican prim...
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Memorial Day: A different perspective
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ARTHUR G. AUSTIN JR. 
May 29, 2023
It’s funny how things work. I was in Michigan fishing along the Detroit River with a friend and a huge flotilla of other boats. The annual walleye sea...
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