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Letter: The decline of the USA
Letters To Editor
Oct 23, 2021
With the threat of another government shutdown averted by the raise of the debt ceiling level, all is well — or is it? This was the 79th time since 19...
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Youth of the Week: Sydney Smith
Cattaraugus County, News
Oct 13, 2021
The Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau is pleased to announce this week’s featured Youth Citizenship Award recipient is Sydney Smith. Sydney is the daugh...
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Guest Comment: Make China pay the tab
Local Columnists, Opinion
ANDREW McCARTHY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Sep 24, 2021
Americans on the home front are exhausted from a marathon of foreign fallout. As the Taliban cancels this semester’s gender studies curriculum at the ...
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The United States of incompetence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Aug 23, 2021
By acting nobly on slavery, Abraham Lincoln once said, America could be “the last best hope of Earth.” But right now we look more like the United Stat...
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Just one election away
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 21, 2021
America may be one election away from losing its democracy. Democracy’s fate seems to hinge on a little known act, the Electoral Count Act of 1887. No...
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Other Voices: We never learn
Aug 19, 2021
The Taliban victory is déjà vu. I thought Vietnam taught America about supporting corrupt states in unwinnable wars. The only lesson learned was to se...
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Honor US bond with interpreters
Jul 26, 2021
As the United States military completes a rather surprisingly double-time withdrawal fromAfghanistan— there are very few troops left, with a lot of we...
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Honor US bond with interpreters
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 26, 2021
As the United States military completes a rather surprisingly double-time withdrawal from Afghanistan — there are very few troops left, with a lot of ...
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What we’re getting wrong about Juneteenth
Local Columnists, Nation World
DAHLEEN GLANTON, Tribune News Service 
Jun 17, 2021
This weekend, Americans will celebrate an unofficial holiday that many people had not heard of a year ago. In this era of purposeful racial awareness,...
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Memorial Day — and the day after
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAMES JAY CARAFANO Tribune News Service 
May 29, 2021
The more we make Memorial Day about remembering our fallen warriors, the better off we are as Americans. And the day after Memorial Day, there are man...
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What did Fauci know?
Local Columnists, Nation World
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
May 28, 2021
NEW YORK (TNS) — It looks like Dr. Anthony Fauci has some serious explaining to do about COVID-19 after all. Fauci on Tuesday said that, yes, the Nati...
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No, there’s no mandate to remake America
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
May 06, 2021
Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government? The president’...
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FDR? Biden channels LBJ
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAMES JAY CARAFANO Tribune News Service 
May 01, 2021
President Joe Biden’s address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” package. We didn...
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Joe Biden’s radical gambit
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 28, 2021
There’s believing your own press releases. And then, there’s believing your own delusions of grandeur. Joe Biden should look at the mirror every day a...
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Chauvin jury voted with their eyes in killing of Floyd
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
Apr 23, 2021
NEW YORK — The Derek Chauvin jury voted with their eyes. The infamous video of Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, kneeling on the neck of...
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What the US did right on COVID vaccinations
Local Columnists, Nation World, New York
Apr 23, 2021
America’s deeply flawed health-care delivery system ranks near or at the bottom when objectively compared to peers inBritain,France,CanadaandAustralia...
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Verdict gives hope, if only fleeting, to Black America
Local Columnists, Nation World
AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD Associated Press 
Apr 22, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...
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