Opinion

Let Haudenosaunee play lacrosse at LA Olympics
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 14, 2025
The Creator gave the “medicine” game of lacrosse to the Haudenosaunee people a thousand years ago. The Haudenosaunee gave lacrosse to the world. Now i...
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180th Allegany County Fair gets underway next week
Commentary, Opinion
By KATHRYN ROSS news@oleantimesherald.com 
Jul 11, 2025
ANGELICA — Sawdust covers the stalls and arenas, water is at the wash racks, cobwebs have been cleaned out of the exhibition halls and the electricity...
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Puerto Rico, Guam, others in serious debt
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 10, 2025
The five inhabited U.S. territories are collectively $57.8 billion in debt and have issues with their financial statements that “can lead to poor fina...
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Federal purchasing data is ‘unusable’
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 09, 2025
The General Services Administration plans to help federal agencies and local governments make $47 billion of purchases in 2026 using a data system tha...
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Texas flooding and FEMA reform
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 09, 2025
In a time of terrible natural disasters like the one Texas has just experienced, we rely on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate aid ...
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Volunteer recognition a special occasion
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Jul 09, 2025
I had the privilege of sharing in a special celebration recently. Absolut Care of Allegany was honoring my niece, Amelia Tallman, for 25 years of fait...
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A tragic testimonial of pot’s toll on youth
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 08, 2025
Legal recreational marijuana states (New York) — and those states that are considering legalization (Pennsylvania) — would do well to take note. It’s ...
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How budget bill will affect healthcare in New York
Commentary, Opinion
By BILL HAMMOND 
Jul 07, 2025
The federal budget bill signed by President Donald Trump will cost New York billions per year in healthcare funds and is expected to reduce enrollment...
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SCOTUS restores needed balance to our government
Commentary, Opinion
By SUSAN SHELLEY Los Angeles Daily News 
Jul 07, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., but only on the issue of wh...
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Commentary, Opinion
By DAVID M. DRUCKER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jul 03, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani isn’t the most famous Democrat in America. But the frontrunner to serve as New York’s next mayor is well on his way — ...
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Covid loans for 11-year-olds
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 03, 2025
A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is ...
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America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too
Commentary, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jul 03, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...
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Letter to the Editor: The government is us
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 02, 2025
As Americans gather to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts and parades, we do so at a moment of growing strain in the very government ...
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Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
Commentary, Opinion
By ROD BISHOP RealClearDefense 
Jul 02, 2025
As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...
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Readers’ Turn to Write: More than a teacher
Commentary, Opinion
By MIKE COLLINS 
Jul 02, 2025
High school is the time we begin to figure out who we really are — when we first gravitate to the interests that will take us toward adulthood. If we ...
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