Opinion

Right here is pretty perfect
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH 
Oct 16, 2024
Have you been watching the news reports from down South? Some individuals have faced the cameras and you can see the devastation on their faces, hear ...
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It’s the spending, stupid!
Commentary, Nation World
Oct 16, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration wants the public to believe the country is in great shape economically. Yet the budget deficit tells a story of unsust...
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Will Democrats resort to the Hail Mary?
Commentary, Nation World, New York
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Oct 15, 2024
Just three weeks before the election, existential dread is descending on Democrats. As the average of both national and battleground state polls conti...
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New York, other states take aim at TikTok
Commentary, Nation World, New York
Oct 14, 2024
Last week, 14 state attorneys general , including New York AG Tish James , sued the social media platform TikTok for allegedly damaging young users’ m...
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RTW: A selfless coach — and a better person
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
KASEY JOHN Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 14, 2024
Honoring someone is a tall order. It means finding an eloquent way to summarize and put to words the life and good works of someone deserving of being...
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Trump flipped on EVs, but he still loathes windmills
Commentary, Nation World, New York
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Oct 14, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For a long time, Donald Trump derided electric vehicles as expensive and impractical. “Nobody wants them,” he charged, even though ...
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Political centrism getting a second look
Commentary, Nation World
MICHAEL S. JOHNSON Chicago Tribune 
Oct 11, 2024
CHICAGO (TNS) — Political centrism has a bad name. In fact, it has a lot of bad names. Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, g...
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RTW: Harris will protect our democracy, constitution
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
MARTHA TILLINGER Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 11, 2024
This is a very crucial election, with two candidates as opposites. Kamala Harris has demonstrated a long-standing career of integrity, honesty and com...
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Passive aggressive Biden wants Harris to lose
Commentary, Nation World
VICTOR JOECKS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Oct 11, 2024
LAS VEGAS (TNS) — PresidentJoe Bidenmay have endorsedKamala Harris, but it’s increasingly obvious he wants her to lose. On Monday, Vice President Harr...
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The Cardiac Kid
Commentary, Nation World
JERRY ZEZIMA Tribune News Service 
Oct 11, 2024
If there is one thing that will make your heart pound faster than finding out you need cardiac surgery, it’s finding out, mere hours before the operat...
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The political system that gave us Trump, Harris
Commentary, Nation World
DAVID MILLS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Oct 10, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The American political system works. Of course it works. That’s what a system — a thing that once set up keeps running — does. But ...
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America in the Age of Nero
Commentary, Nation World
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Oct 09, 2024
Americans are like members of a quarrelsome family, so intent on arguing their petty grievances around the kitchen table that they don’t smell the ris...
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End the discrimination against seniors
Commentary, Nation World
MARTIN HOYT RealClearHealth 
Oct 09, 2024
The Democratic National Convention featured two themes of interest to working seniors: choice is an essential function of freedom, and every person sh...
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Americans ready to flee? We should be concerned
Commentary, Nation World
NEDRA RHONE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
Oct 07, 2024
ATLANTA (TNS) — The first time Jen Barnett and her now husband, Brett Andrews, discussed permanently leaving the U.S. was in 2016. Barnett, an Alabama...
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