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Message to my Democrat friends
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Sep 19, 2020
Joining the effort to avert the destruction of our republic in the coming election, I am not asking my Democrat friends to vote for President Trump. I...
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GOP refuses to give up on American dream
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Sep 01, 2020
The times are so strange, so confusing, so upside-down that it is easy to miss what counted most at the two national political conventions conducted u...
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Trump all in on crime, riots
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 31, 2020
There were several striking things about this week’s mostly virtual Republican National Convention: the prominence of Black prime-time speakers; the e...
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Trump GOP not as different as you think
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 29, 2020
Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, but it’s still discernibly the Republican Party. The Republican National Convention was obviously very Tr...
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Anti-Trump drive united Dems
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
JULIE PACE AP Washington Bureau Chief 
Aug 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — Nearly everything in American life has changed in the 16 months between the launch of Joe Biden’s White House campaign and his address Th...
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What’s really going on with the post office?
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Aug 20, 2020
The news is filled with reports of President Trump’s “assault” on the U.S. Postal Service. Democrats and some in the media say the president is delibe...
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Democrats pound their message: Vote to oust Trump
News
STEVE PEOPLES, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE, Associated Press 
Aug 20, 2020
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama warned Wednesday night that American democracy may not survive if Donald Trump is reelected, del...
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VP picks don’t swing elections
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
Aug 17, 2020
NEW YORK (TNS ) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has chosen U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California to be his running mate. The move is sur...
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Harris is now the Democratic mainstream
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 13, 2020
On the one hand, Joe Biden — who is running as the candidate who promises to make the presidency boring again — made the most obvious — that is, borin...
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WNY’s Ortt named GOP leader of Senate in Albany
News, NY State News, Western New York
Olean Times Herald staff 
Jun 19, 2020
ALBANY — Niagara County state Sen. Rob Ortt received enough backing from his GOP colleagues in the State Senate Friday to emerge as the new leader of ...
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Biden should pick Harris if he wants to win
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
May 19, 2020
There is a persistent myth in American politics that a superb running mate can push a presidential candidate over the top, either in terms of the popu...
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