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Americans should demand better
Local Columnists, Nation World
CRAIG LANG Tribune News Service 
Jan 14, 2021
Raise your hand if you are exhausted from the incessant political turmoil that continues to unfold in the United States. While almost everyone is hopi...
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Pandemic aid, such as it is
Dec 23, 2020
For a bill that’s supposed to rescue struggling Americans and boost the economy in the midst of a worsening pandemic, the 11th-hour deal Congress agre...
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Congratulations, Joe Biden!
Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Olean TImes Herald 
Dec 22, 2020
Now that the electoral college has spoken, it is high time that we Republicans salute and recognize the next president of these United States, Joseph ...
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How Pelosi’s TDS hurt Americans
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Dec 10, 2020
One of the more appalling moments in the recent history of the House of Representatives occurred recently in the Capitol Visitor Center. Speaker Nancy...
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Americans, take the medicine
Local Columnists, Nation World
Dec 04, 2020
Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...
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State & Union: What are you thankful for?
Coronavirus, Local News, News
Nov 18, 2020
It will be a Thanksgiving like we haven’t seen in generations. Families will find it much harder — for some perhaps impossible — to get together for w...
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COVID vaccine could make our social divisions worse
Local Columnists, Nation World
TYLER COWEN / Tribune News Service 
Nov 17, 2020
The Pfizer vaccine, along with its likely successors, is a very good thing for the U.S. and the world. Yet it's also likely to reshape America in some...
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Divided right down the middle
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Nov 06, 2020
As of Thursday afternoon, returns showed more than 72 million people voted for Joe Biden, breaking the record of more than 69 million, set by Barack O...
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Vaccine politics will soon replace election politics
Local Columnists, Nation World
TYLER COWEN / Tribune News Service 
Nov 04, 2020
Heading into Tuesday's U.S. general election, speculation was rife as to whether a Joe Biden victory might herald a big leftward shift, or what kind o...
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Guest Comment: Americans are better together
Local Columnists
JAMIE MULLEN, Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 22, 2020
Pat McCumiskey is a local legend. Anyone who played high-school or town-team sports during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s in Allegany County knows his mythi...
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Read, think, then vote
Leters to the Editor, Local Columnists
Oct 20, 2020
Americans are at a crossroads in the upcoming election. They must decide whether to follow the brash promises of Donald Trump or the calming commitmen...
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Other Voices: A terrible nation?
Oct 10, 2020
A quick question: If this is such a terrible, cruel, racist and unjust nation, why are there people from all over the world willing to risk their live...
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Blacks killed no more than ‘normal’
Commentary, Leters to the Editor, Local Columnists
Sep 22, 2020
Americans should be grateful for Nicholas L. Waddy’s latest column, “Black Lives Matter … Some of the Time.” Waddy points out that the Black Lives Mat...
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Return to classical liberal roots
Commentary, Local Columnists
Sep 05, 2020
We had hoped the scenes in downtown Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and other cities were not emblematic of the state of the nation in general. ...
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