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Letter: Grateful for rescue after mishap
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Aug 29, 2016
We are writing this in response to the unexpected, overwhelming care we received from nearby witnesses to our bizarre, extraordinary accident at an Ol...
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Letter: New lights look cheap
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Aug 24, 2016
Good grief, what was the city of Olean thinking? Does no one in authority have a sense of design? Recently, I took note of the new street lights on No...
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Return of the ‘fried egg’ PSA
Commentary, Nation World
DEAN BURNETT 
Aug 24, 2016
(TNS) In 1987, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America aired a public service announcement that went on to become a classic of modern pop culture. It ...
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Obama’s epic failure to curb gun violence
Commentary, Nation World
NAT HENTOFF and NICK HENTOFF 
Aug 24, 2016
While President Obama is playing golf on Martha's Vineyard, disinterred coffins are floating down the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. More than 20,...
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Human conversation was most meaningful
Commentary, Local Columnists
KELSEY BOUDIN, Olean Times Herald 
Aug 22, 2016
Her email response was somewhat rattling. Oh, no. What had I done? For a range of reasons — from being a former student to now being a professional jo...
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Home Again: We are all more alike than we are different
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 22, 2016
When I came home June 28, 2014, I knew life would bring changes, experiences different from what I’d known living in the Midwest. Turning onto Temple ...
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The death penalty’s essential futility
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Aug 22, 2016
(TNS) Maybe our society should congratulate itself occasionally on how much progress it’s made in the last half-century toward equality and individual...
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Vecchio: Trump is rigging his own failure
Commentary, Local Columnists
PATRICK VECCHIO 
Aug 17, 2016
Donald Trump says if he loses the presidential election, it will have been “rigged.” He’s been using the word for months. During the Florida primary i...
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Olympic excellence now leads to whispers of cheating
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN LEICESTER AP Sports Columnist 
Aug 17, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — There may have been a time, when athletes smoked pipes, competed in everyday clothes and didn't tweet sponsored messages, a time...
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An assault on our national parks
Commentary, Nation World
JACQUES LESLIE 
Aug 17, 2016
(TNS) To learn what most endangers national parks, on the occasion this month of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, look no farther than Moja...
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RTW: Republicans wrong to give Legislature nod
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
SUSAN M. LABUHN Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 15, 2016
On Wednesday Aug. 10, for the first time in almost 40 years, the procedure for replacing a vacancy on the Cattaraugus County Legislature was not honor...
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