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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NY marijuana sales promise up in smoke
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
HARRY SIEGEL New York Daily News 
Feb 05, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — “We expect the first 20 dispensaries to be open by the end of this year. And then every month or so, another 20,” Gov. Hochul boasted...
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Unbridled restraint in NY schools
New York, Opinion
Feb 03, 2023
Protecting children from the overuse of last-resort behavioral interventions starts with collecting better data. For educators and other school staffe...
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Biden administration on thin ice
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOE BETTENFELD Boston Herald 
Feb 03, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — Reports that Labor Secretary and former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is a finalist for the head of the National Hockey League players’ unio...
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An embarrassing defeat for Letitia James
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Feb 02, 2023
TROY (TNS) — As a state lawmaker, Steve McLaughlin made his name as a loud and strident critic of Andrew Cuomo, a governor who had never been known fo...
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Biden must work with the House GOP
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 02, 2023
Kevin McCarthy is House speaker. That’s the shorthand routinely use to describe the California Republican’s political position. And though it’s absolu...
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When government policy hits home — and your wallet
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Feb 02, 2023
If you think public policy doesn’t really affect you or your family, take a quick glance at your retirement account — but you may want to sit down fir...
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After veto, NY Legislature must try again
New York, Opinion
Feb 01, 2023
Gov. Hochul’s veto of the Grieving Families Act on Monday night should not be taken as the end of the long-running effort to correct how state law tre...
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Will court defend the right of free speech?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Feb 01, 2023
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — At first glance, Priscilla Villarreal is not a particularly empathetic figure. Not to most conservatives, anyway. The tattoo...
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The Joe-Hunter Biden scandal convergence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Feb 01, 2023
Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal ...
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NY Democrats pulled a McConnell
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Jan 31, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul is more popular than ever, according to a Siena poll released late last month. What? How can that be? Wasn’t the gove...
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Trump’s return to social media
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 31, 2023
Is it possible to argue that suspending Donald Trump from various social media sites after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on our nation’s Capitol was the ri...
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Memphis is not about racism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 31, 2023
There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do. It is supposedly so pervasive and powerful that it can cause Black men to sign up to serve as police officer...
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Evidence mounting that COVID is bad for the brain
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Jan 30, 2023
The possibility that a COVID infection could damage your brain is terrifying. Scientists have established that long COVID often manifests itself with ...
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Biden missteps help Trump politically, legally
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — When classified documents turned up in President Joe Biden’s former office, his Delaware home and the garage housing his Corvette, ...
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The party of Mitch McConnell
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
A.B. STODDARD 
Jan 29, 2023
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is all that is left of what was once the Republican establishment. Sure, there are still some GOP voters who ag...
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Republicans can’t be intermittent fiscal hawks
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 27, 2023
After a hiatus during the Trump years, Republicans are back in the mood for fiscal probity. It’s very strange not to seriously pursue a deeply held go...
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