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Killing of Peanut shows state’s warped priorities
Commentary, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Nov 07, 2024
ALBANY (TNS) — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is, as many of you will know, the agency that allowed a massive dump for constructio...
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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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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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Longing for an assisted death, she didn’t get one
Commentary, Local Columnists
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
Aug 30, 2024
I’ve had a good life, learning and traveling and am lucky enough here in the UK [United Kingdom] to be allowed an assisted death which I hope will be ...
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Restoring affordability must be a top priority
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Aug 29, 2024
The straightforward fact remains that every time New Yorkers go the grocery store, or the gas station, or to buy back-to-school supplies for their chi...
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Ban cell phones in schools across US
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 20, 2024
This year’s hottest back-to-school trend is one most students won’t like: cellphone bans. A growing number of districts across the country have enacte...
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As inflation cools, cut interest rates now
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 20, 2024
Last month, for the first time since March 2021, the consumer price index — the indicator of inflation — fell below 3% annual increase , hitting 2.9% ...
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A First Amendment lesson
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 16, 2024
While Kamala Harris hides from unscripted events, Donald Trump can’t stop talking off the cuff. On Monday, the former president gave an interview to E...
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Oldest Olympians might hold key to slowing aging
Commentary, Nation World
F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 16, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying p...
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The Brotherhood of ’57
Commentary, Local Columnists
RICHARD J. MARCOTT Special to Olean Times Herald 
Aug 16, 2024
It took me till the end of our first long cruise in the summer of 1953 to realize what was happening. That brotherhood thing — the unbreakable bond th...
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The unbearable weirdness of RFK Jr.
Commentary, Nation World
ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Aug 08, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It took a decade, but the man who left a dead bear cub in Central Park finally fessed up in a social media post Sunday. Why now? B...
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Cat ladies may get their revenge on Trump and Vance
Commentary, Nation World, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Jul 31, 2024
ALBANY (TNS) — I’m sympathetic to JD Vance, perhaps naively so. He and I share broadly similar biographies, although I, admittedly, have not joined th...
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