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August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 01, 2022
U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 16, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an intolerable horror from the start. It has escalated into a genocide in what amounts to a terror campaign to subdue...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 29, 2022
Joe Biden is engaged in the most extensive test of whether an American president can survive elevated levels of inflation since Jimmy Carter, and it’s...
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Feb 26, 2022
WASHINGTON — The United States, European Union and United Kingdom on Saturday agreed to put in place crippling sanctions on the Russian financial sect...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 28, 2021
Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines for C...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 18, 2021
President Joe Biden has the misfortune to be president at the moment when corporate America has decided to get together and gouge American consumers. ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 24, 2021
There is precious little President Biden can do to tame inflation, aside from using the limited tools in the White House toolbox to try to get things ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Nov 22, 2021
“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” the economist Thomas Sowell once said. Looking at the way prices are rapidly...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jul 27, 2021
The U.S. economic recovery is being threatened by the COVID-19 delta variant. Increasing vaccination rates is the most important thing the U.S. can do...
Local Columnists, Nation World
May 07, 2021
The Biden administration is promoting its American Jobs Plan as an “infrastructure” proposal. In reality, it’s a gargantuan tax-and-spend package that...
Local Columnists, Nation World
May 05, 2021
If Joe Biden wanted to spend massively in response to a nearly unprecedented public health emergency, he was elected too late. The conventional wisdom...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Mar 15, 2021
President Joe Biden has signed what may well end up being the biggest accomplishment of his presidency, an enormous $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. W...
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Mar 01, 2021
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is joining in supporting legislation to create an “ultra-millionaire” tax on fortunes over $50 million. The ...
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Feb 26, 2021
I am so glad to see that everything in Congress has been taken care of. The pandemic is under control, the stimulus is taken care of, the economy is h...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 20, 2021
When Joe Biden is inaugurated today as the 46th president of the United States, he’ll face a nation torn by deep political and social divisions, and a...
Local Columnists, New York
Jan 18, 2021
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that we can’t wait for New York to hit vaccine herd immunity before reopening businesses. He says that the pain caus...
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jan 04, 2021
It’s tempting after a year like 2020 to be impatient, to want to shake off a pandemic that’s lasted more than 10 months and be done with it. }Reality ...
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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August 18, 2026
OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...
